Example sentences of "in at the [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 She was immediately thrown in at the deep end when one of her young clients , Lucy Gates , died .
2 Our housework was hard and long and laborious and erm we 'd got two children to look after and then I 'd got my brother who did n't leave home until he was thirty and er , you had n't got the time , you know , to do too many things , so er my interest was the young wives ' and it was really a as regards the erm the Guild itself , I was thrown in at the deep end when this lady who was with my mother , mother was treasurer , she was secretary , erm she used to come down for me and , I know you should n't canvass but she used to canvass and say erm you know the voting , you know , will you , will you come and vote ?
3 While there was nothing extraordinary about the goal itself , Chapman turning the ball in at the near post after Clough had driven an indirect free-kick low through a crowd of players , the circumstances in which the kick had been given were a little odd and left Everton looking apoplectic .
4 Fiona , whose businessman husband Rod Potts lives in Cumbria , plans to turn in at the same time as her baby daughter Natasha .
5 Dealers were expected to get these cards filled in at the same time as fulfilling their quotas of business , but nobody had time .
6 The jolt rattled his ribs and he breathed in at the same moment as his head crashed through the surface , like a seal in the surf .
7 Brilliant light dazzled in at the left-hand window as they swept past Balnaguard , Balmacneil , Kinnaird .
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