Example sentences of "[v-ing] in with [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ 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 . ’
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Then he 'll be walking in with this quiz an
5 Watch it Tim and see what happens because that yellow bit will start mingling in with all the other bit .
6 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 .
7 So let's pretend to be fitting in with that . ’
8 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 .
9 She walked out onto it , her boots sinking in with each step , and left the Katz Motel behind her .
10 The full force of the rising tide had reached the channel mouth and a foaming mass of water was pouring in with terrifying speed .
11 Indeed , in the very thick of the Suez preparations ( 14 September ) ‘ the Cabinet was about Plan G — the current plan for Britain going in with European federation ’ ; and then ( 18 September ) ‘ the Cabinet held its second meeting on Plan G for British association with the Messina powers in Europe .
12 Attach the little burner to the base of the large balloon and insert the passengers into the large basket , fixing in with royal icing .
13 I remember watching the last episode on your predecessor ATV when it was repeated in 1976 and the announcer talked of people calling in with various theories about what it was all supposed to mean .
14 But today his solicitor Tony Hughes told Milton Keynes magistrates the youth had changed his ways after leaving council care and moving in with foster parents .
15 Leggy Linda Lusardi has just been told that her new job involves moving in with seven adoring men .
16 Used to put some sage in , sage and onion stuffing in with some and you used to like it did n't you ?
17 It offers a greater choice of workers while linking in with other areas .
18 We were greeted with metaxa , the local brandy , and spent a wonderful evening sampling local cuisine and wines , watching and joining in with talented local dancers who wore full Cretan costume .
19 Trevor , who enjoys joining in with Northumbrian folk fiddlers such as Alistair Anderson , believes the Swaledale Festival has done much to revive Dales music-making — by choirs as well as instrumentalists .
20 Evening distractions were few , although we did hear Sinead O'Connor blasting out in the early hours in one village , and we spent one evening joining in with some traditional dancing — the original Twist !
21 But the first thing she had to do was suss out the lie of the land — there was no point in going charging in with all guns blazing .
22 Expressing an opinion about the coming Windows NT-on-Pentium versus Unix-on-RISC war , Rhines thought that the Pentium , coming in with lower performance , still in pre-production volumes two years later than RISC processors , could never hope to catch up with RISC .
23 But Elsie Birdsall and Lavinia Thwaites kept coming in with all kinds of things to try and get me going — home-made soups , arrowroot , custards — and finally I began to mend a little .
24 Every season , there are scare reports of new viral problems coming in with ornamental fish .
25 As well as composing , Lennox Berkeley taught composition on the Broadwood piano in the study : among his pupils were Richard Rodney Bennett ; John Manduell , now head of the Northern College of Music ; and John Tavener who , in a recent broadcast , remembered how his lessons were often interrupted , sometimes by Nicky , the Berkeleys ' youngest son — whose football might make an unscheduled appearance through the window , to Lennox Berkeley 's gentle consternation — or by Freda coming in with some latest gossip which would send the tutor ‘ running for the gin cupboard ’ .
26 And also he 's dropping in with unnecessary and you know , when I 'm short staffed .
27 He kept on butting in with silly comments .
28 When I am sitting up there working with the librarian , pupils will come trotting in with little notes from teachers saying " I have been sent in to ask for books on … " and off they will go for that lesson which is what she wanted , so they have achieved it .
29 He will have other reasons , quite apart from any strategy of the noble lie , for falling in with certain familiar practices that he might be tempted , at first look , to discard .
30 Its effect is clear-you get what you want , what you think is right , rather than falling in with other people 's views .
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