Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [verb] in [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taxi boss Dave Blyth said Derek did not give in without a fight . |
| 2 | He drew her to him , so that her head was near his waist , in a stiff sort of way because she did not give in to the embrace . |
| 3 | Even when I arrived back at Thornfield , I did not go in for a while . |
| 4 | Where such arguments did not fit in with the overarching themes of race , violence and disorder , and social deprivation they were either sidelined or pushed into the sub-clauses of official reports . |
| 5 | When Mr Bernard Corker , who owns the business , applied for retrospective planning permission the council refused on the grounds that it was too noisy , conflicted with proposed parking standards and did not fit in with the character of the residential area . |
| 6 | A Scottish Office spokesman said changes have taken place in the health service since 1989 and the previous plan did not fit in with the present set-up of purchasers and providers . |
| 7 | Others who are familiar with intimate details of the case , such as Peter Hill , producer of two BBC Rough Justice programmes on the case in the mid-Eighties , believe Beattie is the victim of suppressed forensic reports which did not fit in with the police view , particularly that of the man leading the investigation , Chief Supt William Muncie . |
| 8 | The hold of the state and party ‘ did not extend in to every family ’ and some sections of society ‘ maintained a certain autonomy ’ . |
| 9 | He did not turn in at the door of number thirty-seven , however . |
| 10 | Although tankers did not come in for the attention they received in the 1980s , on 25 January Platt 's carried an account of an attack on an Iraqi tanker by US aircraft . |
| 11 | I very much regret that both the Syrians and the Lebanese stayed away from the multilaterals and that , although present , the Palestinians did not join in in a positive way . |
| 12 | No other man had ever managed even to light a spark within her , yet he had set her body aflame , and it had taken every ounce of will-power she possessed not to give in to the longing he 'd unleashed . |
| 13 | If the message did n't sink in on a Sunday a range of weeknight meetings reinforced it . |
| 14 | ‘ It just did n't sink in at the time — I did n't quite realise what was happening . |
| 15 | If I say to you behaviourism is about di dum di dum and I did but obviously it did n't sink in at the time . |
| 16 | She did n't move in until the day she got married . |
| 17 | ‘ We did n't go in on the free travel promotion because many of the deals involved British Rail and we do n't have it here , ’ she said . |
| 18 | Lucy Lane said : ‘ I wonder he did n't cash in on the journal . ’ |
| 19 | And Lucy Lane : ‘ I wonder he did n't cash in on the journals . ’ |
| 20 | Perhaps they did not like what you were saying — it did n't fit in with the way they see their magazine . |
| 21 | Charles had so convinced himself of this that he did n't ring in to the production office until ten-thirty , deliberately giving the producer time to sober up his intoxicated imagination . |
| 22 | ‘ I had help getting in here , ’ Hari said quickly , ‘ I did n't get in through a bolted door on my own now , did I ? ’ |
| 23 | But you did n't get in till a quarter past . |
| 24 | He thought of telling her that he was a friend but friends did n't dive in through the front door ; they did n't have blood on their wrists nor cuts all over their faces ; they did n't have a rope burn round their necks and they wore shirts , at least until they were properly introduced . |
| 25 | Without waiting for an answer , she piled into the back — ‘ Are n't there any seat-belts for the twins ? ’ — and Carol , determined to believe I did not exist , joined her , after loading something which I did n't see in through the rear doors . |
| 26 | A feeling she had not known in over a decade slipped through her body . |
| 27 | She had not looked in on the gallery this visit . |
| 28 | I had also discovered that I had not put in with the ‘ essential documents ’ a vital letter — the one which contained Kathy and Len 's address , so here I was arriving in Perth , knowing nobody and without an address to go to ! |
| 29 | For a moment she 'd been on the verge of telling Penny why she was in such a hurry , but the moment passed , and she was glad she had n't given in to the impulse . |