Example sentences of "[verb] in on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time ‘ Cobweb Soup ’ grinds in on thin guitar it 's already too late , as curiously gets the better of you . |
| 2 | By the time ‘ Cobweb Soup ’ grinds in on thin guitar it 's already too late , as curiously gets the better of you . |
| 3 | Yet , embittered pigeons have a great tendency to come home to roost at a later date , wreaking merry havoc as they zoom in on perceived injustices and ensure that all and sundry realise the iniquities of their previous employer . |
| 4 | The youth of Port Talbot were broken in on great drama and fired , from the beginning , to reach for the sky . |
| 5 | After the show the band chill out in the car park , meeting Carpettes from around 16 , who got in on borrowed ID , to those in their mid-20s sucking on roaches who have just heard about the band along with The Charlatans UK ( ! ) and want their logo in felt tip on a T-shirt . |
| 6 | Garages cash in on chipped windscreens |
| 7 | Three cash in on bright ideas |
| 8 | They can cash in on good ideas from staff and benefit from many small improvements and occasional large leaps forward . |
| 9 | Can you cash in on unwanted space or possessions ? |
| 10 | The one-sided affair ought to have seen the hosts cash in on early superiority , even before Booth struck in the 31st minute to break the deadlock with a well-placed glancing header off Darren Ferguson 's corner . |
| 11 | By 1980 the operation was clearly prospering , bringing in on average £2500 per week in the second half of the year . |
| 12 | Deborah Levy drops in on Canadian maestro Robert Lepage , suspended between worlds in his solo show |
| 13 | Some weapons home in on infra-red sources , some on radar , others just go where they are told . |
| 14 | I dropped in on long sessions of talk , putting the world to rights — after all that was supposed to be one of the main aspects of college education was n't it ? |
| 15 | They are tailing unmarked police cars to stake outs and listening in on secret frequencies . |
| 16 | US job saviours drop in on European ‘ flagship ’ |
| 17 | The cellar , being a sort of tunnel between yard and house , would have made an excellent place to play in on wet days . |
| 18 | On the return journey we will drop in on Lylehaven Farms and Connant Acres , both herds with an established reputation for producing show cows and exporting top quality genetics around the world . |
| 19 | The community care Support Force swung in on hard-pressed SSDs with as much subtlety as a ton of bricks . |
| 20 | Although the contact was more social than professional , the two inevitably talked shop when they met , and as Coleman zeroed in on al-Kassar as possibly the key player in the Middle East 's narco-terrorist game , he decided to visit Mayer in his office at the German Embassy one day to see if his friend could be persuaded to take a more generous view of international cooperation than Hurley 's . |
| 21 | The day flew by so quickly that I hardly noticed evening stealing in on crimson wings . |
| 22 | Damian Casey was fined £160 for failing to weigh in on fourth-placed Tribute To Dad . |
| 23 | On the part of the doctor , British medical training until recently has paid scant attention to the patient 's need to be listened to and the doctor will therefore home in on physical symptoms only . |
| 24 | The new dispenser system is set to be phased in on other BNFL sites at a later date . |
| 25 | She watches her values slowly being eroded , and she describes the process of moral degradation in terms of language : ‘ You find yourself giving in on little things , twisting words and meanings , always trying to be one-up on whoever you 're with , and then suddenly you give in on something else , much bigger ’ ( 131–2 ) . |
| 26 | McAvennie pounced on this blunder to race in on Main , and his cutback was met perfectly by Collins who crashed the ball home from three yards . |
| 27 | Focusing in on social services , the points that I wanted to make to start er , to you were first of all the complexity of the community care situation , and you have a separate paper on that which Mr will be going through you , going through with you in detail . |
| 28 | I enjoy focusing in on single leaves and always try to differentiate between tree types : the oak , ash and sycamore . |
| 29 | All of a sudden as they like to do in Birmingham station , all the trains are coming in on different platforms from usual and and er delays here and do you know what it was ? |
| 30 | So everything was coming in on different lines ? |