Example sentences of "be [verb] in on the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These horses are part-Arab , part-Basque and part-English , the English blood having been mixed in on the orders of Napoleon 1 , while the Arab strain has been traced , perhaps fancifully , to the horses left behind by the Saracens , who were badly defeated near here in the eighth century . |
| 2 | I put the phone down , wondering how many people had been listening in on the extensions , and went back into my room . |
| 3 | They 're cashing in , but at least they 're cashing in on the locals and not just on the Leeds . |
| 4 | Now the crack Flexible Anti-Smuggling Teams are closing in on the dealers ' ’ rat-runs ’ . |
| 5 | THE WELSH are closing in on the standards of play that immortalised the sixties and seventies as the golden age of their rugby . |
| 6 | Even Egyptians , whose soldiers may well be sent in on the allies ' side , hate the spectacle of a fellow Muslim , a defier of Zionists , being shot up by America 's whizz-bang weaponry . |
| 7 | They were zeroing in on the wallflowers , splitting up couples and effortlessly getting them to mix . |
| 8 | this one , look at the back , I think the reason it 's so big is to go in on the sockets at the back , put , you can put two tapes on it |
| 9 | He was peering in on the proceedings from the kitchen , while his best friend , Mafouz , had retreated to the stairs and was looking down , intently , on Mr Malik 's elegantly coiffeured hair . |