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 | He 's just come in on the come back trail and he seems to me to be getting better and better . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | So there I was lying in bed as the Mafias slowly closed in on me . |
8 | Another local woman said : ‘ Angela always called in on her mother before she went to work in the mornings . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | A new Cabinet was appointed on April 17 and was formally sworn in on April 21 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | These she later filled in on an assessment form , She also contacted and talked to the client 's nearest relatives or other informal carers . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 ) . |
17 | He rarely went for a tightframed shot , but instead honed in on whatever it was the subject had and made them give him more . |
18 | 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 . |