Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] in [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try to plan to seat at least six comfortably , and also have some really occasional chairs that can be stashed away in a cupboard somewhere or brought in from the hall or a bedroom . |
| 2 | This has to be seen to be appreciated , engines can be viewed from several angles , compared with one another , or taken in in one awe-inspiring vista . |
| 3 | The target of the revolutionary writer 's attentions is a reading public readily and willingly collaborating in its own mystifications , yet retaining at heart a desire for cultural enlightenment and refusing adamantly to be patronised or taken in by glib and misguided preaching . |
| 4 | ‘ Like being murdered or taken in by the police , ’ said Rose , getting out of the car . |
| 5 | The managers could be appointed from inside the service or taken in from outside . |
| 6 | One implication of this is that evaluation procedures are usually better developed in-house than bought in from other institutions . |
| 7 | The famous New York Queen Anne ‘ Apthorp Chairs ’ from the Britton collection ( lots 1279 and 1280 ) were estimated at $150,000–200,000 each , and at $170,000 and $150,000 seemed fine , were it not for the fact that the $320,000 pair brought $430,000 in 1983 ( although bought in at Christie 's in 1990 ) . |
| 8 | Although lumped in with the grunge movement and perceived in some quarters as worthy successors to Nirvana ( as if the original has gone away ) , Billy Corgan ( vocals/guitar ) , James Iha ( guitar ) , D'Arcy ( bass , and Jimmy ( drums ) are unique and accessible to anyone who 's ever liked Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath , hardcore and prog-rock , art and pop . |
| 9 | ‘ From the case cited [ Morgan v. Palmer , 2 B. & C. 729 ] in the course of the argument it is shown that the principle has been laid down that , where one exacts money from another and it turns out that although acquiesced in for years such exaction is illegal , the money may be recovered as money had and received , since such payment could not be considered as voluntary so as to preclude its recovery . |
| 10 | The Tories have responded to calls for unity and fallen in behind John Major . |
| 11 | You are old , you are bed-ridden , the work falls to me , you do not think or care , lying here day after day , waited upon and given in to , without worries or anxiety . |
| 12 | You want er you want a letter carried by hand and given in to the hand of Douglas MacArthur ? |
| 13 | Scope for agricultural improvement is limited naturally but the RP provides 40% of the cost of fences so that grazing land can be compartmentalised and grazed more effectively , 40% of the cost of providing livestock watering facilities and 40% of the cost of adding fertilisers or grass seed ( applied on to existing pastures and trodden in by livestock ) . |
| 14 | Young and fit and keyed in to the processes of organisational power . |
| 15 | After leaving the letter in a drawer she had gone to a nearby town and booked in at a hotel . |
| 16 | I was escorted to the fifth floor and shown in to a riverside suite which was named after Sir Charles Chaplin , because he always used to stay there when he visited London . |
| 17 | In some respects Kerrier may have constituted an exception , yet although the mean of £4.4 per head may need scaling down to take account of the multitude of labourers discovered and roped in for the subsidy , upwards of seven-tenths of the assessments made in 1522 were at £2 — £4 . |
| 18 | They strolled back home down the tunnelled lane and called in at the Littles ' cottage and the Vicarage on the way . |
| 19 | Christina did her daily fifty lengths of the swimming-pool , showered , and called in at her office to check her mail before leaving the hotel at ten minutes to twelve to drive to Bridgetown . |
| 20 | To fill the vacant position , Sir Henry , still nursing ambitions for the club he had guided and invested in for so long , wanted no one else but the outstandingly successful manager of Huddersfield Town . |
| 21 | Having dismissed the Cabinet on Jan. 8 , the President on Jan. 21 , 1990 , reappointed the Prime Minister to his post and gave him the responsibility for bringing together a new ministerial team [ see p. 37174 ] , which was announced on Feb. 15 and sworn in on Feb. 17 [ see p. 37240 ] . |
| 22 | The federal Cabinet announced and sworn in on June 27 contained only 16 members , of whom nine had served in the outgoing government . |
| 23 | As a result of a general election held on Nov. 23 , 1986 , a " grand coalition " of the Socialist Party of Austria ( Sozialistische Partei Österreichs — SPÖ ) and the conservative Austrian People 's Party ( Österreichische Volkspartei — ÖVP ) was eventually formed on Jan. 14 , 1987 , and sworn in on Jan. 21 . |
| 24 | Ahmeti 's new interim administration , consisting mainly of non-party technocrats in view of the failure of efforts to rebuild a broad coalition , was named on Dec. 14 and sworn in on Dec. 18 . |
| 25 | By the end of May , we were finished training and sworn in as Peace Corps Volunteers . |
| 26 | A con man was arrested and brought in to the police station . |
| 27 | Then he looked up at the new young golden eagle who had been available under special government licence and brought in as her replacement . |
| 28 | ‘ As you realize , ’ he said , ‘ we have been thinking that she might have been murdered outside the City boundaries , and brought in on a meat barrow . ’ |
| 29 | Tim falling down the Kud and brought in by a kind Indian , unconscious for a day , and in hospital for a week . |
| 30 | Later this year a third intake will be built and linked in to the system which will automatically transfer raw materials to the mill . |