Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] in [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were cooking for ourselves so we settled in for the evening and made ourselves comfortable . |
| 2 | As the excluded social forces grew in political strength , so they pressed in on the established constitution in ways which eventually caused it to buckle so that it came to be more in line with their views as to how things should be . |
| 3 | Nor did he ever measure more energy in the bangs and heat than he put in from the electricity supply . |
| 4 | This hangar was all closed up apart from one door , so he drove in in the semi-dark and reversed rapidly into what he thought was an empty corner without checking it first for parked vehicles . |
| 5 | Until I moved in to the Rectory at Seend , I lived briefly at the Bell Inn , St Edith 's Marsh , Bromham , near Devizes . |
| 6 | When I came back , cos I went in on the way to the hairdresser 's , to find out about it , and I thought I 'd buy him on the way back , when I went back it was still sitting in the same place with its tail hanging out of the back . |
| 7 | Cos I come in on the Friday after I picked her up from school . |
| 8 | But it 's very very safe provided you keep in within the sort of dosage Like driving on the motorway . |
| 9 | It was your hard luck if you came in in the middle of one of them . |
| 10 | Churning is not good for buyers though : endowments are meant to be long-term investments , and it should have been made clear to you when you bought the policy that you would lose out if you cashed in before the end of the agreed term , which is typically , 25 years . |
| 11 | No cos I 've seen this done before right , I mean it 's over a certain time , but if you go in at the end of the time |
| 12 | Tickets can be booked by telephone on ( 0723 ) 370541 — or ( 0723 ) 378863 for Access and Visa bookings — by post , or personally if you call in at the theatre , and must be paid for within three days of booking . |
| 13 | If you give in to the fears which are projected onto the inner screen of your mind , you make your intentions to overcome them impossible and you will be weighed down by your past failures , finding you lack the courage to confront the problem or the person who in the past has won over you . |
| 14 | ‘ You are a success to them if you fit in with the culture , particularly when they have gone thousands of miles and built up the clubs themselves . |
| 15 | ‘ Inevitably there will be some at councillor level and some of our senior members who will say , if we go in with the Conservatives : ‘ That 's it , I 'm off ’ . |
| 16 | She slipped through the bushes alongside the sorry procession until they passed in through the lower guard of the castle , and disappeared up the tree-shrouded ramp . |
| 17 | It was n't until he called in at the vicarage and found the vicar shot , stabbed , strangled and poisoned that I gave up completely . |
| 18 | You may have a rough idea of where you are going and if it fits in with the cosmic blueprint , doors open easily . |
| 19 | Oh , it 'll burn your horn buds off , all right , but if it gets in among the food , that 's it . " |
| 20 | If it matches in like the rest |
| 21 | One man who could have a busy day on Sunday if he drops in on the above conference will be Michael Billington , the theatre critic of The Guardian . |
| 22 | Male activists are out every night unless they stay in for the wife 's one night out . |
| 23 | Because it fits in with the way you see yourself ? |
| 24 | So you come up behind it so that your body and the striker 's ball , that being your red ball and the other ball , the object ball are always the same straight line I mean it does n't matter whether you come in from the side you 're walking up to it in a straight line put your mallet down , swing it through . |
| 25 | There was quite an unpleasant scene before you came in with the punch . |
| 26 | A Whether they come in through the letterbox , under the door or around the windows , draughts all add up to a large heating bill . |
| 27 | Laura smiled that silly sort of champagne smile that all men ( all right , some men ) look for before they move in for the kill . |
| 28 | Among the German miscalculations that on various historical occasions have seemed Heaven-sent to save the Allies , Falkenhayn 's denial of reserves to the Crown Prince reminds one of Hitler halting his Panzers before they closed in on the BEF at Dunkirk , different though the motives may have been . |
| 29 | He opened the window after they turned in to the country . |
| 30 | Parents and teachers usually judge children 's behaviour by whether it fits in with the usual standards — moral , emotional , social and intellectual — set by the society in which they live . |