Example sentences of "[v-ing] in [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DRAWING IN on time and to budget , Bovis Construction have handed over Waterloo International , the UK 's first international rail terminus to serve channel tunnel passengers . |
| 2 | At school , aged fourteen , I was only just starting to trim the fur off my jaw while some of the Spanish or Arab boys would be tucking in with razor and foam . |
| 3 | Her body lay at the rest in the chapel downstairs , the light filtering in through lancet windows on her oak coffin and the dark-stained , hand-carved pews . |
| 4 | It was only fair that Neil Kinnock should be allowed to relinquish his post quickly , although the possibility of Roy Hattersley stepping in as deputy for a few months was ruled out too early . |
| 5 | ‘ And when I see him hobbling in at night , I am very proud of him . ’ |
| 6 | Here a wide entrance , guarded by boarded doors from the street provides for the bringing in of Corn , Hay , Straw , & c … receptacles for soiled litter and stable sweepings are provided . |
| 7 | And in this sort of instance , I mean Tidworth , with the , with bringing in of North Tidworth it 's important that we do have extra accommodation , the police are doing it within their , within their remit . |
| 8 | FERGIE may have found it difficult to learn Her Royal Lessons , but you do n't have to be a fitness connoisseur to see that she has learned a thing or two about keeping in Of course her title of the Disappearing Duchess takes on a different meaning now a year ago it referred to her ability to lose five stones of regal flab . |
| 9 | Since Cisco first appeared in shops last year , local hospitals have reported an unusual number of teenagers ( who tend to like the relatively weak ‘ wine coolers ’ ) checking in with alcohol poisoning after drinking the stuff . |
| 10 | Banks too are muscling in on insurance , mainly on the life side , to keep customers ' savings ‘ in the family ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Army workers living in in fear of the bombers |
| 13 | He made no sketches in advance but got straight down to work with pencil and ruler , drawing the outline before filling in with emulsion paint . |
| 14 | It is entertaining to see a group of loushe Parisian types forming a street band or filling in for cabaret . |
| 15 | Fitting in with School |
| 16 | Joining teddy bears of all shapes , colours and sizes which are flooding in from TV stars and personalities all over the country will be Prime Minister John Major 's very own bear and those of his parliamentary colleagues . |
| 17 | A university education , after all , was no more than other people telling you what to think , the pouring in of examination facts , an uncreative process leading to sterility , not freedom . |
| 18 | As the sun begins to rise she glances out of the window and recalls how she chose this film from all the offers which came pouring in after success on the small screen and on record . |
| 19 | It does strike me though as a that A that one of the basic points is that if this is going in as structure plan guidance then we have to be satisfied that these are in fact criteria which can operate at the strategic level . |
| 20 | By the close of the first day , though , they had lost Broad , and Pat Pocock , going in as nightwatchman , had told the England physiotherapist Bernard Thomas that he had cleaned his teeth and gargled in case Thomas had to give him the kiss of life . |
| 21 | Us going in on foot and then the equipment being airlifted in is about as arsy-versy as you can get . |
| 22 | and who 's going in for emergency surgery and whose chances of coming out are virtually nil anyway . |
| 23 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 24 | They spend the next hour or so chatting before going in for lunch . |
| 25 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 26 | Well people are not bound to lose , because some people do finish up ahead , but most people should expect to lose for the simple reason that bookies have got to make a living somehow , and therefore the odds that they offer to entice people to go in are such as to expect the bookie to make a profit , but that does n't mean to say that I am against the idea of people going in for gambling . |
| 27 | P. P. Sometimes , when we were going in at night , when it was wet , we would try and put a mac on and slip down to A Division parade room — hang the mac up quick and dive into your coat . |
| 28 | Going in at night . |
| 29 | Going in at No. 10 , he raced to 55 off the bowling of Hall , Watson , Worrell ( whom he hit for six ) and Ramadhin , before Valentine bowled him as he went for another big hit . |
| 30 | He made 64 going in at number three , and although that was followed by a second-innings duck , a corner had been turned . |