Example sentences of "[verb] in [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which is all very well , but nobody 's phoning in to accept a silly offer . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Fergie may well have bought a cut diamond at cut price but how he fits in remains a poser . |
| 4 | I am grateful to our member Vic Smith for stepping in to fill a vacant gap in April . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Decisions should also be reached as to whether appointment lists should be displayed in the school and parents invited to come in to choose a discussion time or whether staff will decide and write to parents informing them of an allocated time . |
| 12 | as if that were an omen , the race itself went just as badly and after nine laps Jackie had to come in to change a deflating tyre . |
| 13 | The word ‘ appears ’ is used advisedly because , although computers have been used to show that the equation does not work for values of n up to several thousand , no one has yet been able to prove for certain that there is no number n greater than 2 for which suitable values of x , y and z can not be slotted in to produce a valid equation . |
| 14 | My sons have been booked in to see a speech therapist . |
| 15 | She trailed off dismally , knowing that Monica was not capable of flinging up a window in an empty house and climbing in to have a look , and that , very likely , her husband was the same . |
| 16 | Twenty five officers were injured when police moved in to disperse a crowd of 200–300 youths , mainly Asian , outside the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel . |
| 17 | When this operation was completed our shore unit moved in to seize a total of 196 kilos of cannabis which in those days was worth well over £300,000 , while Alert intercepted Cornish Lady before she was able to escape . |
| 18 | ‘ As the sexy songbird marvelled at the underwater wildlife , the huge maneater moved in to make a meal of the talented star , ’ reported the Sport . |
| 19 | Not until the machines moved in to throw a great concrete runway across the fields , and buildings grew like mushrooms overnight and were camouflaged brown and black and green , and the bombers roared in , and Rob came … |
| 20 | He set up a beehive barricade as bulldozers moved in to dig a pipeline near his land . |
| 21 | The gallery , which has been built in to become a small room , faces the gate as you enter under the arch . |
| 22 | The farmer begged and prayed that his oxen might not be eaten and promised that , if the tiger would spare them , he would give in exchange a fine fat young milk cow of his wife 's . |
| 23 | Residents at the charity home really hit the high notes when marketing manager , Richard Howard , dropped in to present a £2,000 donation on behalf of the Midlands , West & Wales region . |
| 24 | Father Christmas dropped in to bring a little festive cheer . |
| 25 | One day a bloke came in wearing a rubber mac , a real Wimbledon Common regular by the look of him . |
| 26 | Curtis came in wearing a shabby , fawn mackintosh and looking exactly as he had done the night before . |
| 27 | He opened his eyes and sat up in bed as Anna came in holding a mug of coffee . |
| 28 | She came in holding a large vase of flowers and said with a smile : |
| 29 | In fact , the envelope the film sample came in carried a completely different company name and it was only our knowledge of the market that allowed us to recognise the source . |
| 30 | When people came in to choose a light fitting , how often do you think that they considered what they wanted the light for , or whether they liked , or whether they choose it because they liked the style of the design of the light fitting ? |