Example sentences of "[be] [verb] in on " in BNC.
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| 1 | This ex-rugger international has , for reasons best known to himself , tired of rambling on about the oval ball game ; as a consequence he has taken to bespattering the media with stories about his allegedly ‘ sexy ’ life and times in terms which strive risibly to emulate the writings of the greatest rock journalist in the world — just like practically everyone else in the media has been muscling in on my territory in recent times . |
| 2 | And , with this poise in front of the cameras , it surely wo n't be long before they are muscling in on mum and dad . |
| 3 | Banks too are muscling in on insurance , mainly on the life side , to keep customers ' savings ‘ in the family ’ . |
| 4 | Thankfully , some Scottish firms are muscling in on the act . |
| 5 | and John one in verse twelve it says but as many have received him , to them he gave the right , the authority , the , the power , to become children of God , even to those who believe on his name and this of course is what making our commitment to Christ is , it 's receiving him for ourselves , it 's plugging in , it 's saying yes I have n't got that power myself , I am not able to do it I need you to come and do it for me , I accept that you have that power , you have that authority , you have dealt with my sin and I receive it for me , we trust Christ to save us from sin and commit ourselves to his kingly ruling our lives , we are as the bible says then , born again , new creations , we are made alive in Christ , I give you one verse in Colossians and in chapter three , verse four it says when Christ who is our life is revelled , then you also no sorry verse , verse three , verse three , sorry for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God but you say that 's all very well that , that brings me into the place of becoming a follower of Jesus yes I 've accepted him , but what about all this pressures here , Christ I , I 'm willing to receive them and to make the centre of my life , I 've received that he died for me , but what about all those things that 's twisting and marring and distorting my life , that 's rubbing me , my life can be more , God wants it to be , well that 's the great thing when Jesus comes , he does n't just come and sit down and that 's all there is to it , but he comes in by the holy spirit and as Christ is the centre of our life so he , as we submit to him and to his authority as we become obedient to his word , doing what he tells us , what he says for us , then the power of his spirit in our life starts operating , God the holy spirit , cos that 's how we become Christians , we are born again of God spirit and God Christ was in us , not the man who walked here on Galilee , he is a man in glory , but he comes into your life and into my life by the holy spirit and he gives us new spiritual resources which help us to overcome those influences of evil that are pressing in on us and trying to , to , to , to distort our lives and depress it into its mould , those things that have spoiled our lives , he gives us spiritual power and spiritual resources over them . |
| 6 | Social problems are crowding in on a city where the body-count for murders rose from a record 1,905 in 1989 to a new record of more than 2,200 in 1990 . |
| 7 | These horses are part-Arab , part-Basque and part-English , the English blood having been mixed in on the orders of Napoleon 1 , while the Arab strain has been traced , perhaps fancifully , to the horses left behind by the Saracens , who were badly defeated near here in the eighth century . |
| 8 | I put the phone down , wondering how many people had been listening in on the extensions , and went back into my room . |
| 9 | Maybe they 're closing in on us right now and all I can do is mess about playing cook ? |
| 10 | They 're coming in on a starship disguised as a Boeing 747 so that the locals wo n't suspect until it 's too late , but when they land at London Heathrow their baggage gets lost ; all their heavy weaponry ends up in Miami and gets mixed up with the luggage of some psychiatrists attending an international symposium on anal-fixation after death , and : Freudians take over the world with the captured high-tech . |
| 11 | They 're coming in on the Wednesday are n't they ? |
| 12 | Erm we 're coming in on Sunday to see Norma so I might pop in pop in on Sunday afternoon . |
| 13 | They 're cashing in , but at least they 're cashing in on the locals and not just on the Leeds . |
| 14 | He built Britain 's biggest theme park , bought the world 's largest listed building and has this week been shouldering in on one of Manchester Airport 's more unusual records . |
| 15 | So they came back but of course , if it 's jus if it 's been pouring in on that bathroom ceiling again it 's , it , when I took , when Elsie called up to me , come and look at this , the bathroom ceiling was black mould ! |
| 16 | Russell Reynolds had been called in on occasion , and a smaller firm — seen as a very good specialist — for specific assignments in commodity finance . |
| 17 | Howard sits up front with a shotgun grazing his earlobe , whilst Miki , Emma , Chris and myself are squashed in on the back seat , staring through the grating at the road ahead . |
| 18 | ASIANS in the West are moving in on Hollywood . |
| 19 | ‘ I hear the bulldozers are moving in on George Eliot Thursday , ’ mouthed one of his colleagues in a satisfied Southern drawl . |
| 20 | They are locked in on themselves out of a sense of fear or inadequacy . |
| 21 | The Soviet Army , has also been getting in on the act . |
| 22 | Even British farmers have been getting in on the act , attracted by the lure of cheap agricultural land at prices half those on our side of the Channel . |
| 23 | Dublin 's notorious ticket touts have also been getting in on the act through Northern front men knowing there will be a market for the tickets at ten times the outlay . |
| 24 | ‘ An accumulation of socioeconomic problems that have been developing for 25 years are closing in on blacks like a vice , ’ says veteran African-American author and social theorist Harold Cruse . |
| 25 | THE WELSH are closing in on the standards of play that immortalised the sixties and seventies as the golden age of their rugby . |
| 26 | WIMBLEDON are closing in on Cambridge United 's 600,000-rated defender Ian Kimble . |
| 27 | Now the crack Flexible Anti-Smuggling Teams are closing in on the dealers ' ’ rat-runs ’ . |
| 28 | A trio of local drivers are closing in on the Autoquip North Western Rally title as the final four rounds in the series are approached . |
| 29 | The Mayor of Bedford for the time being was always to be an additional director and at the time of the meeting the Mayor was John Wing , who had been sworn in on 29th September 1793 , and served for one year , after which he remained as one of the aldermen . |
| 30 | A 12-member Cabinet led by Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan [ see p. 38338 ] had been sworn in on Aug. 9 . |