Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] in [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BSC will retrospectively censor the output of all mainland TV stations , but will have no jurisdiction over programmes beamed in by satellite from abroad . |
| 2 | Garages cash in on chipped windscreens |
| 3 | Village communities anywhere are notoriously conservative , so when two young cyclists wandered in to the Gasthof Löwen with shoulder-length hair and matching headbands , they received some doubtful glances from the table where five farm-workers sat steadily drinking their way through the evening . |
| 4 | At the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village eight cops moved in for another raid on a gay bar . |
| 5 | Orbitel Mobile Communications Ltd says it is to launch its latest series of Groupe Speciale Mobile phones at CeBit ‘ 93 , in Hannover : improvements to come in with the new 901 series include improved battery life , speedier battery charging , and ‘ added functionality ’ , although Orbitel is not saying yet exactly what it means by this ; the series is to include a combined mobile and transportable phone , providing both in-car and portable functionality , the company says . |
| 6 | But if researchers home in on the record as the first level of access , ignoring the surrounding administrative context and archival structure which forms part of its meaning , will understanding be fostered or impaired ? |
| 7 | In 1952 it adopted the practice of permitting deputies to stand in for the ministers : the deputies soon became permanent features , attending to all business except that deemed to be symbolically important . |
| 8 | A GRANT of £40,000 will ensure a firm 's development plans fit in with Middlesbrough council 's planned facelift for the area round the town 's famous Transporter Bridge . |
| 9 | That the services they provide are relevant to environmental groups , and in that way to help environmental groups plug in to the kinds of advice on fund raising and er , management and all sorts of other aspects of running a voluntary organisation , which , at the moment , of , er a lot of , er social service organisations plug into , but so many environmental groups . |
| 10 | In the 118 cases mentioned in at least one national newspaper ( 70 were in only local papers ) , there were only 19 cases ( 16 per cent ) where the coverage of the incident lasted more than one day , and only 8 where this lasted several days . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's probably only one of the local kids sneaking in for a look around , ’ Jessamy tried to reassure herself . |
| 12 | In a unique demonstration they left their schools to sit in on a county council meeting discussing the cuts.Tim Hurst reports . |
| 13 | The three brothers crept in on tiptoe to leave jugs of iced lemon juice by my bedside . |
| 14 | Many gardeners believe that an informal pool should be planted liberally , with waterlilies obscuring areas of the water surface , and reeds and rushes tumbling in from the garden . |
| 15 | This is the life down on the Copacobana beach in Rio … sun shining … waves crashing in on the sand … and its here that Liz Macdonald from Gloucester is setting off on the second leg of the British Steel Challenge … she 's on board the Nuclear Electric yacht … from Rio they round Cape Horn and head for Hobart … they 'll be racing for six weeks … |
| 16 | But doubts and anxieties crept in among my thoughts , riding the cruel thumping of the headache . |
| 17 | Prime Minister Petre Roman insisted on April 13 during an official visit to France that the King 's intention to attend a demonstration in the Transylvanian city of Timisoara , which he claimed " would have been covered by about 80 journalists flown in by chartered plane " , invalidated the claim that his visit would have been only a " private " one . |
| 18 | A few days later , immediately alongside the busy M40 , a pause at traffic-lights enabled me to glance at a dense assembly of birds , as closely-packed as starlings , extending for almost a quarter of a mile along the edge of the arable field , and I was able to identify them as a mixture of Lapwing and ‘ goldies , ’ all immobile , and many of the latter with their heads tucked in as if fast asleep . |
| 19 | Afterwards , we clung to the rail , listening to the wind howling ; watching vast , angry waves crowding in on every side . |
| 20 | He can claim , whether truthfully or not , that he had recommended clients to come in at exactly the right times . |
| 21 | During the run-up to the elections in 1990 the SPD candidate , Oskar Lafontaine , gave high priority to the withdrawal of NATO troops from German soil , and even the Christian Democratic government allowed doubts to creep in about the level of their commitment to NATO when they refused to modernise their short-range nuclear missiles in 1989 . |
| 22 | The rapid installation of a large number of systems around the country and , in some cases , overseas created a large number of novel problems and as these arose they were fed into the diagnostic expert system in their central facility and were available for consultation when other units phoned in with a problem . |
| 23 | Three of his goals bounced in off the posts . |
| 24 | But critics here want more safeguards built in to British courts , so that justice is done . |
| 25 | Consumer-orientated , it invited listeners to write in about anything they had found difficult to buy or do and were wanting to know why . |
| 26 | AT THE recent European soccer championships in Sweden a quiet black man was sitting in the airport lounge when a group of Scottish fans came in with their wives . |
| 27 | On Wednesday they had a quiet morning in the centre until just before lunch when two emergencies came in at virtually the same time . |
| 28 | Clients came in at 45p plus , only to see the share price drop rapidly to 18p , although it did later recover . |
| 29 | The drifters came in to both piers and on a Saturday night , the village was a busy place . |
| 30 | When the much more rigid ‘ composite ’ constructions came in in Victorian times one or two of the racing clippers were built with hulls of deliberately controllable rigidity . |