Example sentences of "[to-vb] in [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the band is removed from the machine there will be two ends of yarn to sew in for each buttonhole . |
| 2 | He says the crossing patrol has poor visibility because of parked cars and the lollipop lady has to weave in between stationary vehicles . |
| 3 | The ARFU 's decision has still yet to sink in with many rugby traditionalists but Channel Ten displayed instant commitment to their new deal when they televised the tickertape parade live throughout Australia . |
| 4 | But I just used to have this dream , of all these animals , and I had to go in with all these animals , it was actually full , crammed full of animals , that were all out to eat me , and , kill me , |
| 5 | I am not going to go in to all the details , but I give you one example . |
| 6 | I take that to be a request for the difficulties and I am going to go in to those . |
| 7 | Folly tried to protest that she did n't want to go in at all , but her guide 's businesslike attitude and obvious haste made it difficult to intervene . |
| 8 | I voted for this government because they said they were n't going to go in for that sort of rubbish . |
| 9 | So I , I mean , I 've got to go in for that . |
| 10 | It was typical of Benjamin James , as it happens , to go in for such a touch of harmless sycophancy to please his friend the vicar ; he had very soon become , as we might have guessed , a respectable pillar of the Curry Rivel establishment . |
| 11 | At home he decided to go in for wholesale enclosures , encouraged his tenants to take long leases by reducing their rents , and instructed them in modern scientific methods . |
| 12 | Yes , Americans , erm I have the impression , they 're being rather slow to go in for this sort of Federal legislation . |
| 13 | In that way , we would increase national expenditure on training and the Secretary of State would not have to go in for these dictatorial measures . |
| 14 | New York drug dealers seem to go in for sophisticated marketing ploys . |
| 15 | ‘ The bright child who might possibly get nine GCSEs is going to be pushed to go in for more and more . |
| 16 | Was there ever a time when you had to go in for more drastic measures ? |
| 17 | There was a mini-rebellion about that just after the Police Strike and then they allowed policemen to go in for half an hour 's and eat breakfast . |
| 18 | Because he 'd been seeing psychiatrists since 1950 he fancied he was an expert on Freud and wanted to sit in on all our discussions . |
| 19 | With this kind of work in mind , I obtained permission from the headteacher and the governors to sit in on all appointments that occurred in Bishop McGregor School during my fieldwork between 1983 and 1985 . |
| 20 | The GLCABS basic training structure described in detail earlier , allows the trainee to sit in with experienced advice workers to observe their techniques . |
| 21 | Most teacher-training programmes include provision for trainees to sit in with other teachers so that they get some experience of the environment they will work in . |
| 22 | We are now 7 degrees within the tropics and if the trade winds in which we got off Madeira continue we may expect to cross the equator in a week or ten days , about which time our Captn. informs us that we may expect to fall in with some homeward bound vessels which will enable me as well as the rest of our passengers to forward letters to our friends … bad weather had the effect of making us all good sailors and now we are enjoying fine weather and a fair wind . |
| 23 | refused to fall in with this idea , saying in Dobson v. General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Corporation Plc . |
| 24 | Are you going to come in on that ? ’ |
| 25 | It was as much to disprove some of their absurd assumptions as to help you prove your own theories that I agreed to come in on this project . |
| 26 | people to call now three four three four three four if you want to come in on this . |
| 27 | If you want to come in on any of this three four three four three four you can call now . |
| 28 | Then the old old binder used to come in with two two year old stalwarts , horses , and he used to go round this field and it used to take him days . |
| 29 | Thank you Mr Mayor I just wanted t to come in with two fairly quick points er as to why I will not be able to support this amendment , but the first is that the leader of the council has indicated that the efficiency savings erm has got as far as it can go and that , you know , we have been trimming at the margins and there is no more margin left and that leads you to believe that perhaps one should be looking at somewhat more er root and branch type of pruning in the spending that that the labour group want to actually erm deal with , er and the second point I would like to make , and er I thank councillor for giving us a a a a new word tonight obfuscation because that describes exactly what I think the labour group are trying to do by bringing this figure down it removes the embarrassment they would have from having to add on a substantial sum of money f due to the failure to collect the cou er the community charge in previous years and I think that they are trying by by this amendment with some very quick foot work to try and delude the people of this city . |
| 30 | Well , there were these round concrete blocks , with silos at the top , and they used to come in with these loads of scraps , tip it in and you know what we had to do ? |