Example sentences of "[v-ing] in [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crashing in like this . |
| 2 | ‘ If you 'd bothered to listen to me , ’ Peter went on , ‘ instead of simply wading in with all those slanderous accusations about her , I 'd have told you earlier . ’ |
| 3 | As I say the problem with the tucking in on that one is there 's not quite such a lot of length . |
| 4 | One of the occupied tables contained a man and woman and child , tucking in to great slabs of meat . |
| 5 | ‘ I appreciate your stepping in like this . |
| 6 | By 1980 the operation was clearly prospering , bringing in on average £2500 per week in the second half of the year . |
| 7 | I 've got the whole weight of the whole earth pressing in on this little box . |
| 8 | Rapturous as the circumstances of its conception may have been , the genesis as a whole could only , in retrospect , seem an extraordinarily painful business , as he intimated to Rohde shortly after the book was out : " No one has any idea how such a book comes into being : the trouble and torment it is to keep oneself as clear as this of other ideas pressing in from all sides ; the courage needed to conceive of it and the honesty needed to carry it through ; and above all , perhaps , my tremendous task vis-à-vis Wagner , which has certainly been the cause of many heavy clouds in my heart " the task of being independent even here , of taking up an , as it were , alienated stance . " |
| 9 | If Candy realised the game Adam was playing , she would go storming in with all guns blazing , never stopping to think of the possible consequences , all her protective instincts roused in defence of her best friend . |
| 10 | This central area of the town — Hillgate , Millgate , the Underbanks , all names attested in the 15th century — does however retain both the medieval street plan and something of a medieval atmosphere , because of the narrow , twisting , hilly streets and the buildings crowding in on one another . |
| 11 | You have to produce a return transatlantic ticket and your passport both when buying the airpass and when checking in for each flight . |
| 12 | By chance , one of the world 's top fashion talent-spotters happened to be booking in for that same flight . |
| 13 | Booking in from 6.30 pm at the bottom of Connaught Avenue . |
| 14 | The doctor had opened the door suddenly , was walking in with two nurses , directing them to either side of the bed as the heart machine flashed and beeped alarmingly . |
| 15 | Then he 'll be walking in with this quiz an |
| 16 | Watch it Tim and see what happens because that yellow bit will start mingling in with all the other bit . |
| 17 | My son , he wrote , moving on to a new page , my son , who is a keen footballer and a passionate supporter of our local team , Brighton and Hove Albion ( the Seagulls ) , was surprised the other day when , looking in on one of the team 's training sessions in the sports pavilion of the University of Sussex , he . |
| 18 | Erm , I 'm I 'm never sure about Bishops and Archbishops , erm I remember Archbishop Runcie once commenting about er , an activity that took place at the installation of a Bishop and it 's , I gather , I mean I 've , I have n't actually been to one , but if you 're Bishop or an Archbishop when they act to the triumph and act of installation took place there were you 'll find that the person was surrounded by Bishops and they were all sort of looking in on this er , this body that was gon na be installed and somebody once asked what are they doing ? |
| 19 | Frick idled his way along the corridor , looking in through various windows . |
| 20 | Swearing in of civilian President |
| 21 | Nujoma 's policy statement — Swearing in of National Assembly and Council of Ministers |
| 22 | In Scotland the central valley was filling in with massive expansions particularly around Glasgow , while growth around Edinburgh , Dundee and Aberdeen maintained a long-standing pattern . |
| 23 | Wright battled back into the senior side and scored in the Mersey derby defeat at Everton — but only after filling in for injured Steve Nicol and David Burrows . |
| 24 | They are tailing unmarked police cars to stake outs and listening in on secret frequencies . |
| 25 | ‘ Listening in to private conversations is bad enough . |
| 26 | By listening in to these , guinea fowl could hear storms hundreds of kilometres away and so have advance warning of a change in the weather . |
| 27 | So let's pretend to be fitting in with that . ’ |
| 28 | The former , while fitting in with much of popular ideology , is contradicted by current sociological studies of men 's violence ; the latter is more consistent with the evidence of this research . |
| 29 | He gets all over the pitch , and I could see him fitting in in all kinds of areas , he used to be good for Spurs even when the defence came under pressure , and he 'd tackle back , becoming the ball winner . |
| 30 | Sunday afternoon , remembering in between this you had a mile home again for Sunday dinner , and back again in the afternoon for Sunday School . |