Example sentences of "and [verb] in [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Chris , tall , lithe and manly , strips off and goes in for a swim in his panda-briefs .
2 Ellwood walked to his car and got in like a man with a purpose accomplished .
3 Jacqueline had given birth to Tommy 's daughter and moved in with a man called Steve Branch , who was living on Mill Farm Close .
4 I bought something very quickly in the area where we had planned to buy before , and moved in in a matter of weeks , decorating the place with the help of my mum and dad and furnishing it with the family 's cast-offs and a sofa-bed which Nick gave me .
5 After leaving the letter in a drawer she had gone to a nearby town and booked in at a hotel .
6 Spotting the light of prospect , Christopher Barry applied to join the BBC , and came in as a Production Assistant in 1955 .
7 I did it during the week and came in on a Saturday for myself .
8 Lucker with his booted feet on the bed , and walled in by a screening newspaper , makes no gesture of acknowledgement .
9 Hard to feel sorry for the laird , who would have watched the sweating workers from his window , hands in pockets , listening for the doorbell in case the king changed his mind and dropped in for a scone .
10 BIGGLES pilot Anthony West coolly landed his vintage Tiger Moth biplane right outside a secluded country pub — and swaggered in for a pint .
11 I was escorted to the fifth floor and shown in to a riverside suite which was named after Sir Charles Chaplin , because he always used to stay there when he visited London .
12 The price of oil would probably rise to more than $50 a barrel and dig in for a stay of some months .
13 Having been stung in a similar situation in their last league game when Gregor McKechnie called their bluff over a kickable penalty and scuttled in for a try , Tukalo tried to do likewise after Joe Munro had been caught offside in the Watsonian 22 , as Scott Hastings was called to arms to police Linton .
14 ‘ As you realize , ’ he said , ‘ we have been thinking that she might have been murdered outside the City boundaries , and brought in on a meat barrow . ’
15 Tim falling down the Kud and brought in by a kind Indian , unconscious for a day , and in hospital for a week .
16 A dynamic allocation of exactly the right amount of memory for the word can not be implemented because the structure needs to be contiguous in memory for the fast saving and reading in from a file ( as discussed in section 3.3.6 ) .
17 Do they see erm , if , if they migrate to the city in the urban areas then they realize they wo n't get a job , and have a job straight away , er well paying job but by actually living in the area they would and taking in at a job and they get a lot of contacts and then eventually after a period of time they job .
18 Dessie Loughrey 's long throw was flicked on by Robert Ritchie and the ball deflected off Comrades centre half Dean Gordon and went in off a post .
19 He stopped at the door and stared in for a minute .
20 He felt that he knew the English character and , although he would n't hurt Ludovico by articulating it , he was sure that the sort of English girl who would get off a train and move in with a stranger would very soon be travelling on .
21 go and buy one and dash in with a cup of tea and he I hoped no one called and no one
22 It was the smell of a hundred bodies that had not been bathed for a week , of a hundred sets of clothes that had been lived and slept in for a week , of excreta and vomit trapped by the windows that had not been opened for a week .
23 Pallanza lies in the centre of its west bank — a busy , friendly , village-like town stretched along a lakeside promenade and nestled in among a mass of scenic loveliness .
24 And to tie in to a couple of things mentioned earlier on .
25 There was a garden hazed over by sunlight and held in by a dome .
26 Lindsey came on and sat in for a couple of numbers and really enjoyed being back on the boards with us lot .
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