Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I listened with interest to my hon. Friend the Member for Stamford and Spalding ( Mr. Davies ) , who almost conveyed the impression that he had been parachuted in to an Amazonian jungle in which democratic accountability plays no role , and that we needed the benefit of a judgment on arbitrage and merger policy from New York city . |
| 2 | MEMBERS of LASMO Nova Scotia 's relative response team recently checked in for a flying visit around the Halifax international heliport . |
| 3 | The input cursive line data was first filled in to a consistent thickness . |
| 4 | Some settlement is likely to take place over a period after the trench has been filled , but this can be filled in at a later stage . |
| 5 | Sparse eyebrows can be filled in with a sharpened eye pencil , but soften with a brush afterwards so there is no hard line . |
| 6 | 6/Highlights are masked out while areas are filled in with a thin wash . |
| 7 | For the sake of a quiet life he had given in to an unreasonable request and only now did he fully realize what it meant . |
| 8 | Then a Leed rang up saying that he was there and that the particular aviatical chant in question had been initially struck up by the away end , and only joined in by a shameful minority ( ahem ) of Leeds fans . |
| 9 | Route options have been squeezed in down a narrow corridor of land near the A19 . |
| 10 | We turned our ponies and galloped back to the Legation , where we learnt that news had just come in of a great victory for the Shoan army . |
| 11 | While it has come in for a certain amount of criticism , it has also attracted much praise , especially from industry . |
| 12 | Understandably , this presumption has come in for a great deal of criticism . |
| 13 | It is hard to disappoint someone who may have come in as a last port of call when all other channels to sort out their problems seem closed . |
| 14 | Erm , once again , the problems are being addressed in to a certain extent regarding residential homes and we 're very pleased with that . |
| 15 | ‘ She 'll be carried in inside a cardboard cake . ’ |
| 16 | Some said his wife did n't turn a hair any more when Sammy was carried in like a drowned rat . |
| 17 | In addition to all this , during the holiday period a newly bought fifteen foot wide Axminster spool gripper loom was lifted in by a seventy ton crane , and now awaits assembly . |
| 18 | Computing needs to be built in as an integral part of the Horticultural Training programme , so that future students will leave having acquired skills in handling word-processing , database , spreadsheet and design programs for correspondence , reports , record management , financial planning , and graphic techniques . |
| 19 | He had moved in with an older man , TV director Roger Brackett . |
| 20 | Imagine you have just moved in to a new flat . |
| 21 | She had bought Martyr 's Cottage before his appointment as Director of the power station and he had moved in by an unspoken agreement that this was a temporary expedient while he decided what to do , keep on the Barbican flat as his main home or sell the flat and buy a house in Norwich and a smaller pied à terre in London . |
| 22 | The chamber is then flooded from below with 3375 litres ( 750gal ) of dip , which is pumped in from a nearby vacuum tanker . |
| 23 | Madge Allsop had just crept in like a beige dormouse and deposited a salver of tea , though Dame Edna had dismissed her with a beady look when she attempted to sit in our chat . |
| 24 | It was a real Fanny-by-gaslight relic of the old city , redolent of gin and vomit and brutal crimes , and the fog had crept in like an old friend and made a dripping urinal of the walls . |
| 25 | Here , we are concerned with the former , relaxed and floppy , with huge jackets as comfortable as cardigans and roomy trousers designed to be tugged in with a sturdy leather belt . |
| 26 | Significantly , the one recorded local dispute in which he was concerned ( a violent struggle over the manor of Gregories in Theydon Garnon ) shows him drawn in as a political heavyweight to counterbalance strong support on the other side . |
| 27 | Significantly , the one recorded local dispute in which he was concerned ( a violent struggle over the manor of Gregories in Theydon Garnon ) shows him drawn in as a political heavyweight to counterbalance strong support on the other side . |
| 28 | Curator Maryan Ainsworth of the Metropolitan Museum is quick to note that , ‘ The thorny problem of underdrawings and workshop practice in , for example , the works of Lucas Cranach and his circle is not easily resolved through underdrawing analysis , since in many cases , the picture was drawn in with a non-carbon substance , like iron-gall brown ink , that is not penetrated by infra-red , and is invisible on the reflectogram screens . |
| 29 | Outlines and details are drawn in with a Rotring pen . |
| 30 | Outlines and details are drawn in with a Rotring pen . |