Example sentences of "[verb] in [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which is all very well , but nobody 's phoning in to accept a silly offer . |
| 2 | THE Llandudno flood victims will get a boost today when the Duke of Edinburgh flies in to see the disaster for himself . |
| 3 | WORLD cricket has distilled itself into the English game : the World Cup is over , South Africa have played their first Test match against the West Indies and now the far flung stars of these international matches have flown in to fill the last few places in the carousel of English county cricket . |
| 4 | Not to mention the profit being made by private clinics when rich girls are flown in to have an artificial hymen put in so that the rituals of defloration may continue . |
| 5 | A report in Le Monde of March 31-April 1 said that French Foreign Legion troops , flown in to assist the Rwandan forces when the rebel invasion began the previous October [ see pp. 37765-66 ] , were being withdrawn following the ceasefire . |
| 6 | Fergie may well have bought a cut diamond at cut price but how he fits in remains a poser . |
| 7 | The programmer may choose a long-distance view of the whole execution space of a program , a reduced view as an AND/OR tree , or zoom in to see the details of a single call . |
| 8 | Not three studio boffins and a model got in to do the video ; not a TV celeb on the make ; and not a bunch of suffering-for-their-art students whose only ambition is to get in the indie charts and be interviewed in Melody Maker . |
| 9 | So I was close by and so they sent me in so the way I , I got dressed up in the minister 's cassock , and I got in revised the books of Genesis , like through and I get genned up to be a minister and I took in a bible and er well anyway I killed five men and they got out alive . |
| 10 | A black suit was stepping in to take the bodies away . |
| 11 | Until well into the 1970s , the almost universal conventional wisdom — except perhaps in the United States — was that the government should stand ready to act as a deus ex machina , stepping in to save the capitalist system from its inherent defects of inequality in the distribution of the wealth it created , of unbalanced investment that created private affluence and public squalor , and or vulnerability to cyclical downturn , slump and unemployment ( for example , Shonfield , 1965 ; Galbraith , 1956 ) . |
| 12 | I am grateful to our member Vic Smith for stepping in to fill a vacant gap in April . |
| 13 | In eight or nine rounds the referee should be stepping in to rescue the younger man , unless he is knocked out . |
| 14 | It is the image of the tough , resourceful ‘ lone ranger ’ figure who rides in to rescue the town from the wicked cattle baron . |
| 15 | Thereafter , having performed on Brian 's ‘ Back To The Light ’ LP , Neil was pencilled in to do the tour … |
| 16 | The truth is that Holland were not Holland last night , just a raw collection drafted in to complement the remnants of their regular side . |
| 17 | Having delivered the presents , however , her next stop was the basement , which had been hastily and frugally fitted out to house the appeals office , with its six telephone lines and fifty cramped volunteers drafted in to handle the money as it flooded in . |
| 18 | The Movietone cameraman zoomed in to get a close-up of the notice being fixed in place , a glimpse for the screens of a thousand Odeons and Regals from Aberdeen to Penzance . |
| 19 | It zoomed in to introduce the IntelliServer terminal server for local area networks . |
| 20 | The next morning , in solemn cavalcade , James , King of Cyprus rode in to receive the keys of his city , and the flag of St George and the Dragon was dropped from the walls . |
| 21 | Written excavation records once consisted of observations written down in a notebook , but nowadays most archaeologists use printed forms , or even a series of forms , which are filled in to record the evidence not covered by the drawn and photographic records . |
| 22 | Plans for the wetland , which represents a quarter of Tokyo 's remaining natural shoreline , to be filled in to provide a refuge for local people in the event of an earthquake are being opposed by local campaigners . |
| 23 | In the same way , if the adventure your heroine becomes embroiled in involves a corpse , as it it likely to do , then you must confine the police presence , symbol of the harsh realities , to the very minimum . |
| 24 | Pick in brought an action against the Board , claiming that by virtue of s. 259 he was the owner of that land to mid-track . |
| 25 | Instead the guitar rules , and rock musicians flock in to share the vibe . |
| 26 | Unable to drive the Syrians out of Lebanon , he merely succeeded in extended the civil war into Christian East Beirut . |
| 27 | to have her hair done , she brings her boy friend with her and , another neighbour always drops in to have a chat with his wife on a Friday evening , she stops about an hour , then his son brings his girl friend , so he said its like a mad house |
| 28 | Who 've actually come in to see the shows to get there point of view to say what they like and what they dislike . |
| 29 | Exercises , whether for translation or other kinds of manipulation , can be neatly presented in sentences , with a tick or a mark for each one , and in this way everybody knows where they are going , and how far they have come in developing the necessary formal basis . |
| 30 | But equally clearly , these ‘ other expressions ’ must be chosen with care : in considering to pull someone 's leg , for instance , there is little point in referring to pull in to pull a fast one , or leg in He has n't a leg to stand on . |