Example sentences of "[vb -s] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The data comes in almost without intervention , fills in the pages , and someone just checks it to make sure it fits and erm that 's a great system . |
| 2 | The starfish is preserved in soft white chalk , which fills in the interior of the animal . |
| 3 | Some of these might , I am sure , change their opinion as Wheen fills in the gaps and rounds off an account of a long career that began in 1920s aesthetic Oxford and finished in a heart attack in a London taxi almost 50 years later . |
| 4 | … this closes the directory browser and fills in the Command Line section on the Program Item Properties box . |
| 5 | The retailer selects the items he wants and fills in the form as outlined above . |
| 6 | So however And then you start you 've got to start and use very little polish and very little methylated spirits and what we call to work out the the all that oil has to be lifted out and it 's you dra it 's you work in circles and work in circles cos that fills in the pores and then near when you 're on maybe bout the last th th takes about three or four coats you know , working on it All depends just how how how long it takes to get it filled up . |
| 7 | Property : Forward Planning : Making Proposals : Influencing the decision-makers : Allison Flight fills in the background to a planning application |
| 8 | The hills are mine , and the living streams and the wind that breathes in the valley and the tiny white flowers that only I know because only I lie so close to the earth that I can see them move . |
| 9 | When a fish sucks in the bait it lifts the bottom shot off the bottom and so allows the buoyancy of the float to take over , resulting in the antenna rising out of the water like the sword Excalibur . |
| 10 | This theory brings in the element of comparison such that an individual will compare his/her ratio of input ( effort ) to output ( pay ) with a similar ratio for some other relevant person . |
| 11 | This framework brings in the concepts of ego , super-ego , id , and the repressed , which had always been used in Freud 's system before the advent of the ego , super-ego , id , model . |
| 12 | Turning up the Drive then brings in the overdrive effect and is certainly flexible — none of this ″either on or off″ syndrome . |
| 13 | In the few cases just seen where the to infinitive denotes an action , it also brings in the nuance of subsequence , of sudden movement from one instant to the next . |
| 14 | Dr Runcie , the well known Archbishop , found himself in terrible trouble when he obviously betrayed his feeling that the Argentinians were human brings in the Falklands memorial service . |
| 15 | ( She brings in the food . ) |
| 16 | It also brings in the bases the the basic the bases and the alkalis . |
| 17 | This is a very handy aspect of the program , since it brings in the prospect of it being used for other purposes . |
| 18 | That brings in the matter of recreational use — angling or , perhaps , boating . |
| 19 | The proliferation of one-day cricket — there were 227 limited-over internationals played between the last two World Cups — is a reflection of modern-day audience demand , and , overseas anyway , is what brings in the cash . |
| 20 | Faced with dwindling sales and stiffer competition , all luxury-goods firms need to turn to the boring disciplines that many have dismissed as suitable for widget-makers , but hardly appropriate for a trade where cachet brings in the cash . |
| 21 | The magazine text brings in the paradox of public and yet as if private utterance : ‘ His words were as if spoken to himself , but he spoke them aloud , and he continued for some time to look at his sister like a man perplexed . ’ |