Example sentences of "[verb] in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pulled away from them both long enough to wipe blood from his face and to lean on the stair-rail , sucking in deep breaths . |
| 2 | Scott stood motionless for long moments , sucking in deep lungfuls of air . |
| 3 | Sucking in great drafts , she drained one bucket and then half another . |
| 4 | Far better to take what is , and bring in progressive changes , than to radically alter the whole thing . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ We need a central body to provide a seamless service and bring in new ideas . ’ |
| 6 | We now bring in young graduates and train them in every part of the organisation to the My Kinda Town culture . |
| 7 | Men in general bring in higher wages than women so a family with a male partner will almost always have a higher family income than a family of a lone woman . |
| 8 | An open policy to trade may be maintained if the nation is doing well economically , but a less successful economic position may lead to swift and much more extreme action to erect trade barriers and bring in other sanctions . |
| 9 | But much more important is to think of other trade magazines which might use your information and bring in some customers at the same time . |
| 10 | Well you mix up er you mix up some colours , black and er and black and wh i stuff Bismarck brown which Mix them together and you make a colour to match up the rest and maybe bring in darker streaks and make a pat You know what I mean ? |
| 11 | The essential financial underpinning of English cricket remains the five-day test match against other cricket-playing countries ; tests still bring in big crowds , and the money they earn helps the financially struggling county teams . |
| 12 | Town and the others bring in branded drugs which are already legally on sale in Britain . |
| 13 | Organization can pool abilities , share loads , bring in local talents and interest , identity sources . |
| 14 | In all three , the arts are barely on the official agenda : they bring in few votes ; they have small budgets compared to the least of other government departments , so they marshall small political forces . |
| 15 | Bring in fair votes . |
| 16 | In any particular organization individuals bring in these anxieties from their inner , phantasy worlds . |
| 17 | Bring in any residents who need help to the dining room . |
| 18 | A modern drainage system means that the village rarely floods these days , but the village green , known locally as ‘ The Pond ’ though it was filled in many years ago , shows signs of its former glory whenever there is a heavy rainstorm , and a decent fall of snow , combined with the winds so common to the Wolds , can still cut the village off from the outside world . |
| 19 | In Great Britain there is no such force , and the gap has been filled in recent years by a militarization of the police force . |
| 20 | Drums and bass were as solid as they come and the keyboards filled in any gaps . |
| 21 | The pancreatic duct was filled in 199 patients ( 84% ) . |
| 22 | I am sure that the Minister is aware of the widespread concern about the threat to postal services that the Government are determined to impose by bringing in tin-pot competitors who will make the rural services a threatened species . |
| 23 | This included bringing in ex-L.C.C. cars to replace the Felthams as they were moved to Leeds . |
| 24 | The shop now caters for the mainstream market , but it was built upon bringing in exclusive trainers from Germany in the early Eighties , trainers that had nothing to do with America , but a lot to do with the nomad Scousers , and Wade Smith often supplemented his stock by buying from Liverpool ‘ entrepreneurs ’ with time on their hands to travel to Deutschland and acquire , by various methods , the much sought after , exclusive Adidas Trim-Trab . |
| 25 | Julie Oldfield ( from the MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ) phoned : I have faxed her a copy of Dinamation 's letter for information and confirmed shoot times at 1630 to 1730 on Wednesday ; she was worried about the amount of equipment you might be bringing in 4 vehicles — you said you would have a camera and one light . |
| 26 | Fujitsu chose to site their £400m semiconductor plant near the A1(M) bringing in 1,500 jobs . |
| 27 | Because these sediment particles have a large surface area , they act as ‘ chemical sweeps ’ , bringing in unwanted passengers , such as oil , herbicides , organic chemicals like PCBs , and heavy metals like cadmium . |
| 28 | Community membership will be opened up to Finland , Sweden , Austria and Norway , bringing in richer nations to share the burden with Britain and Germany . |
| 29 | Mr Birdsall added : ‘ The reason we changed the meals around was to avoid the cost of bringing in outside caterers . ’ |
| 30 | But except for the very largest corporations with the most extensive resources , the majority of organisations have seen the wisdom — and overall cost-benefit — of bringing in outside experts when required . |