Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] in on " in BNC.
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| 1 | They both jumped when , with a loud crash , a two-storey house suddenly caved in on itself . |
| 2 | Sabyasachi Mukerjee was appointed Chief Justice of India with effect from Dec. 18 after the retirement of E. S. Venkataramiah , who himself was only sworn in on June 17 but who had reached the retirement age of 65 . |
| 3 | She corrected this idea by always wearing a hat , as though she had just looked in on her way to the garden . |
| 4 | Toby , on the other hand , just looked in on the way to the boarding annexe , and popped straight out again , while Corbett Farraday had no particular fear of the boys — were n't they all boys together at Burleigh ? and stayed in the Staff Common Room for no other reason than to work himself up to an approach to Penny . |
| 5 | Lessing consulted Dinah , who had come back tired from an evening full of accidents ; the scenery had fallen , the lesser lady had not come in on cue , the leading man had been a failure and she would have to find someone else . |
| 6 | She had not looked in on the gallery this visit . |
| 7 | He 's just come in on the come back trail and he seems to me to be getting better and better . |
| 8 | The main spar booms and other main structural members were sizable pieces of laminated wood , several inches square , and were generally boxed in on three sides by the plywood skin and shear webs . |
| 9 | L 178 , p. 5 ) , which , subject to some limited and temporary derogations , provides for the total abolition of ‘ restrictions on movements of capital taking place between persons resident in member states ’ ( article 1 ) , including ‘ direct investments on national territory by non-residents ’ and ‘ acquisition by non-residents of domestic securities not dealt in on a stock exchange ’ ( see points I.A. and III.A. 3 of Annex I to the Directive ) , which are the operations to which the Commission expressly refers . |
| 10 | So there I was lying in bed as the Mafias slowly closed in on me . |
| 11 | Another local woman said : ‘ Angela always called in on her mother before she went to work in the mornings . |
| 12 | Finally I turned and started back , not conscious of anything , my mind still locked in on the impression the place had made so that I only vaguely heard a voice calling me . |
| 13 | The USC central committee subsequently gave him its backing ( as reported on Aug. 7 ) and he was formally sworn in on Aug. 18 in Mogadishu . |
| 14 | A new Cabinet was appointed on April 17 and was formally sworn in on April 21 . |
| 15 | Alexander Meksi on April 13 became Prime Minister at the head of a new DP-controlled government , which was formally sworn in on April 19 . |
| 16 | These she later filled in on an assessment form , She also contacted and talked to the client 's nearest relatives or other informal carers . |
| 17 | Neil was also drafted in on bass for the Guitar Legends festival in Seville , alongside Brian May , Joe Satriani , Steve Vai et al , not to mention ‘ doing ’ The Stonk , the charity single which went to No 1 . |
| 18 | Of Callejas 's new Cabinet , also sworn in on Jan. 27 , Benjamin Villanueva Tábora was Economy and Commerce Minister in 1977-79 and Finance Minister in 1981 ; Ramón Medina Luna had been a Deputy Economy Minister ; Manlio Martínez had served on a previous occasion as Planning Minister ; Col. Francisco Zepeda Andino had served as Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force ; and Rodolfo Rosales Abella of the opposition PLH had served briefly as Labour Minister in the last few months of the presidency of José Simeon Azcona . |
| 19 | As a result of a general election held on April 25 , 1987 [ see p. 35138 ] , a new coalition government was eventually sworn in on July 8 , in which the Social Democratic Party ( Althyduflokkurinn — SDP ) joined the outgoing coalition partners , the Independence Party ( Sjáfstaedisflokkurinn — IP ) , and the Progressive Party ( Framsóknarflokkurinn — PP ) . |
| 20 | Because it suddenly occurs to me that I might have been left alone to get on with this assignment if my divisional head had n't beamed in on my activities and seen something she did n't like in my relationship with Rainbow . |
| 21 | The greatest relief was that I had n't called in on my way down or I would have been with them . |
| 22 | He rarely went for a tightframed shot , but instead honed in on whatever it was the subject had and made them give him more . |
| 23 | In Austria it was announced on Aug. 13 that the visa requirement for Poles would be finally lifted on Sept. 1 — having originally been abolished in 1988 , but having been hurriedly re-introduced in on Sept. 6 , 1990 , in the face of a massive immigration surge . |