Example sentences of "[v-ing] in to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the occupied tables contained a man and woman and child , tucking in to great slabs of meat . |
| 2 | ‘ Listening in to private conversations is bad enough . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It had been reported by the colliery official and er the colliery manager of the time thought it was n't even important enough to actually stop men going in to that district to work . |
| 5 | You know because you , you sort of lost , she lost her track going in to that on how to get him back into the referrals . |
| 6 | Take a sheet of paper before going in to any negotiation and empty your mind onto the sheet of paper . |
| 7 | A student can get in touch with the Counselling Service by phoning or calling in to either office ; telephone 031 650 4170 , or at King 's Buildings on 031 650 5773 . |
| 8 | A student can get in touch with the Counselling Service by phoning or by calling in to either office . |
| 9 | The first is that George shot Lennie to stop him from getting in to more trouble . |
| 10 | The Mid-summer eve fires have been recorded by Frazer in ‘ The Golden Bough ’ across Europe from Ireland to Russia , from Norway to Greece , and even spreading in to Moslem North Africa . |
| 11 | She could n't be at all sure that giving in to such an impulse would have the desired effect . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd telephoned you purely because I had a need to hear the sound of your voice and what do I get for giving in to such weakness ? |
| 13 | It was thought that Iraq had chosen to respond to the appeal from a friendly leader of the Non-aligned Movement , rather than be seen as giving in to Western pressure . |
| 14 | Israel hopes to extract the maximum from giving in to American pressure — applied by the withholding of aircraft identification codes — not to join in the war . |
| 15 | I did n't want to try landing the ship itself , because coming in to accurate pin-point landing requires delicate navigation , which was impossible with the ship 's erratic ceptors . |
| 16 | Erm I mean that was quite odd really , we had er quite a few white tenants coming in to one end of the building , erm just saying that , you know , We just ca n't cope with it any more . |
| 17 | Imagine a craft slipping in to one of those in excess of Mach 5 and it would fold up like a paper dart in a wind-tunnel . |
| 18 | A space hulk wallowed in the spangled spectral abyss , in thrall to the random currents of the warp ; and it was there that Veils of Light had docked , slipping in to some gaping port . |
| 19 | In New York and Boston businessmen and women can get business travel advice and tips on how to keep travelling costs down by tuning in to daily business travel programmes on local radio stations . |