Example sentences of "[vb infin] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm gon na bring in a hair tong today |
| 2 | Could you bring in a couple of ashtrays when you come in love ? |
| 3 | Labour can not , on the one hand , criticise us for giving our system careful consideration and waiting until 1 April 1993 and , on the other hand , announce that they will bring in a scheme in 1992 with no system to back it up . |
| 4 | The French police may bring in a suspect for interrogation under the process of garde à vue . |
| 5 | He suggested that the jury should bring in a decision that would mean that ‘ in future , parents and doctors could make decisions on this awful problem without unidentified informers rushing off to the police . ’ |
| 6 | They need it to finance new projects and which they ultimately hope those projects will bring in a profit on the capital employed . |
| 7 | So the ministers in charge of the measure felt they could not bring in a guillotine or send the bill to a committee upstairs because most of the Conservatives would have voted against and , not being an issue of confidence between the parties , sufficient Labour dissidents might also have voted against the government to leave it in a minority . |
| 8 | To be fair there was a week when Mr Barnes spotted this inconsistency too and suggested that seeing as how we all wasted our tutor time ( WE wasted it — I like that ! ) we should bring in a board game next week and he 'd organise a sort of tournament . |
| 9 | Araminta is fey , and Dermot is ‘ hopeless ’ , and their death is artistically right , and no one will bring in a verdict of wilful murder against you — although you have a strong motive to kill them . |
| 10 | I 'm going to wait to see how some other injuries settle down before I decide whether I should bring in a replacement . ’ |
| 11 | I might bring in a note tomorrow saying I 've got make an appointment |
| 12 | The assumption was that she would bring in a number of new people whose loyalty she could count on . |
| 13 | The tone of his detractors is modified , however , by those who fear that without Birt the right wing of the Conservative party would bring in a regime even less to their taste . |
| 14 | The company say the safety of their staff is paramount , they 'll even bring in a jeweller to remove rings which may have become a fixture over the years . |
| 15 | The reasons for using some form of external assistance in recruiting key people are often quite clear : the confidentiality , the know-how and the experience are all obvious factors ; why bring in a headhunter rather than use an advertising consultant is sometimes more difficult to explain . |
| 16 | Right , well , well , actually yes , what , what you look at , is , is what 's important to you and you put a cash value on it , and it might be the mortgage , it might be education , it might be giving yourself a couple of years ' salary and paying debts or whatever , er , and the security of knowing that O K , if I die , I 'm not leaving a problem for my family , but at the same time if I 'm in a situation where I get a serious illness and I ca n't bring in an income , I 'm securing my , my , my future in that respect . |
| 17 | Sometimes you can bring in an expert from a local college or hospital to lead activities . |
| 18 | In previous years the selection of the carnival queen had been organised by elimination contests in the town and surrounding villages , but 30 years ago the committee asked that young ladies should send in a copy of a recent photograph . |
| 19 | ‘ It was like a collective , you could either buy the porn through the mail , or you could send in a tape of yourself and get plugged into the apparatus that way , ’ explains David James , a film professor at the University of Southern California , who has researched the phenomenon . |
| 20 | I would send in a note addressed to Mellowes . |
| 21 | In the case of respondents whose arguments will be simply that the judgment of the court below is correct for the reasons given , counsel for the respondent can send in a letter to that effect in lieu of a skeleton argument . |
| 22 | Well I 'll chuck in a bit more , I 'll chuck in a little bit more pepper . |
| 23 | OR there 's Gazza ( Paul Gascoigne ) when you grab him by the testicles and say ‘ Can you speak in a bit lower voice ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ But I might look in a bit later . |
| 25 | Do you actually fail the year if you do n't hand in a piece of work ? |
| 26 | If he had any energy left over he might well indulge in a bit more naughty meddling . |
| 27 | ‘ Having committed one offence and been given a criminal recordfor innocent hacking , they may feel that they might as well get in a bit deeper . ’ |
| 28 | Borrowing from the public is more or less finished , perhaps it is finished for our lifetime , but at any rate it has been finished for the last ten years or so ; you may get in a bit one year but you lose it again the next year . |
| 29 | I imagine that if you were a member you can , you can get in a lot easier and a lot cheaper . |
| 30 | Please , said a friend of this journal , egged on I suspect by a green-fingered two-year-old son , will you put in a word for the worm ? |