Example sentences of "[to-vb] in [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Well sometimes if I 'm doing er say a sixty year old , to sixty five , he 's got his state pension to come in at sixty five , so even if the P E P has n't quite recovered , he might just decide to leave that where it is , and then his state pension comes in , his income is then made up , and off we go again . |
| 4 | The idea , based on a shared controller architecture , was to come in at two to four times the performance of a conventional X box and reach pricing levels of $700-$800 a seat in two to three years . |
| 5 | The electronic information explosion knows no frontiers ; we may soon be enveloped in a world-encompassing atmosphere of information messages and ‘ noise ’ of a variety and density not known before , able to plug in to one or a multiplicity of channels and capture information of a wide diversity of nature and origin , much of it junk . |
| 6 | Except that she 's got to clock in in five minutes time . |
| 7 | According to Dr Richard Earle , director of the IOS , accelerated ageing is most likely to set in between 40 and 50 , with women ageing faster during this decade than men ( an average of eighteen years compared to fifteen ) . |
| 8 | Well I 'm going to chip in with thirty are n't I ? |
| 9 | Well if she 's home if she 's home I 'll get her to pop in at two , if she 's not home I 'll get her to come in at quarter past five . |
| 10 | A combination of the two features can result in the remarkable ability to fly in near zero wind conditions . |
| 11 | Each coat is liberally applied , allowed to soak in for five minutes and then carefully mopped dry — on no account leave liquid oil on the surface to dry . |
| 12 | Allow lining paper to fully dry out ; time each pasting so the paste is allowed to soak in for ten minutes before hanging , and if you go over that time , make sure all sections soak for the same time . |
| 13 | It was easier to mine in for two reasons : firstly , if you mined the stone , massive amounts of earth did not have to be shifted before the stone could be got at , and secondly , the men of Swaledale and Wensleydale , many of them experienced lead-miners , had all the knowledge and expertise necessary to dig stone from the mine , and furthermore labour was plentiful because of the decline of the lead industry . |
| 14 | The answer is that these deceptions have to fool all possible predators and while some may be able to tune in to one detail others may have a searching-image for something quite different . |
| 15 | Two-year-old Rhys , from Epping , arrived in Bristol yesterday to settle in before three days of medical investigations at the city 's Children 's Hospital . |
| 16 | Rhys , aged two , of Epping , Essex , arrived in Bristol yesterday to settle in before three days of medical investigations at the Children 's Hospital . |
| 17 | Junior Welsh Office minister , Nicholas Bennett , lost his Pembroke seat to Labour 's Nick Ainger , who overturned a 5,700 majority to scrape in by 755 . |
| 18 | ‘ Ultimately , the customer is always going to call in through one particular vendor , but the hope of the alliance is that the vendors will work on a quid pro quo basis , ’ he added . |
| 19 | I want to call in at one of those hotels to check something . |
| 20 | The contract ensures that if you decide to cash in after five years in April 1997 , you will not get less than the unit price on offer in April 1996 . |
| 21 | The place was open late and he was able to glance in through one of those cheap glittery curtains that screened the doorway from the street . |
| 22 | ‘ My best friend Gillian had given birth to her baby Laura in another hospital nine months before , and had been able to stay in for ten days . |
| 23 | ‘ The only indication we have is that somebody seems to have drawn the bolt on the yard door between Gerald failing to get in at 11.15 , and the mystery woman succeeding at 11.30 . |
| 24 | Two guys tried to break in at three in the morning , and they woke the neighbours . ’ |
| 25 | Perhaps 20 items is a bit much to take in at one sitting , but choose your favourites and you will not be disappointed , as everything is captured in wonderful sound and expertly performed . |
| 26 | Too much for Thérèse to take in at one go . |
| 27 | I declined a chocolate ; they were too large to take in in one bite and I feared to take two and risk cream and liqueur trickling down my chin . |
| 28 | The brownies and girl guides were n't allowed to join in until 1969 . |
| 29 | and er with my son particularly earlier on in his career things were going round and round in circles and in the end I had to step in at one point , grab all the papers as they came past as they were and saying , come on . |
| 30 | Heinz Wildlife Walks ( Ebury Press £5.95 ) is being published to tie in with 250 fund-raising World Wildlife walks on Sunday , October 8 . |