Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] in on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cheapest way to go was via Colombo and so I dropped in on the local centre there . |
| 2 | At four and a half thousand pound of sales we start to pay extra fift in fact at four thousand pound we start but it 's only a small bonus so I home in on the bigger one . |
| 3 | She watches her values slowly being eroded , and she describes the process of moral degradation in terms of language : ‘ You find yourself giving in on little things , twisting words and meanings , always trying to be one-up on whoever you 're with , and then suddenly you give in on something else , much bigger ’ ( 131–2 ) . |
| 4 | So we home in on five thousand booklets . |
| 5 | So they got in on the scene and I seen young men that was walking the streets that had nowt to do put a football kit on with G M B written across the front turn out and become super human beings , you never seen nowt like it , they were so pleased to associate with like something like that . |
| 6 | Well she comes in on page thirty two rather . |
| 7 | Why do n't you call in on Wednesday afternoon , Ruth ? |
| 8 | The film is technically impressive ( Academy Award-winning animator Derek Lamb directs ) but more admirably it zeroes in on kids ' interests without patronizing them . |
| 9 | The film is technically impressive ( Academy Award-winning animator Derek Lamb directs ) but more admirably it zeroes in on kids ' interests without patronizing them . |
| 10 | You have certain formatted sections that are the news , straight stuff , or running tabular matter or whatever , but then somebody weighs in on each section , at El Sol we have a graphics person on each desk , but they 're divided into work groups so different work groups do different pages . |
| 11 | Erm it was actually somebody who came for an interview and you know how you sit in on the presentations when you do the group presentations ? |
| 12 | Sometimes they homed in on the right conclusion with remarkable speed ; sometimes they missed the point altogether . |
| 13 | and then it homes in on one of the men right and it goes sort of whee one hour later whee whee bom bom bom and the other one goes one hour later right and the computer just explodes and it just goes boom |
| 14 | Flavius the Noseless had booked two weeks in Greece for his holidays , so whilst there he dropped in on Archimedes and asked if he could come up with anything . |
| 15 | ‘ No doubt why you honed in on me that night . ’ |
| 16 | Instead it collapses in on itself catastrophically to produce an object a few kilometres across , known as either a neutron star or a pulsar ; often this is accompanied by a stupendous explosion , a supernova . |
| 17 | As Lepine would appear to have done : the Lortie to whom he referred was the Canadian Armed Forces Corporal Dennis Lortie , who had killed three and wounded fourteen when he burst in on the Quebec National Assembly with a machine gun five years earlier . |
| 18 | He was lord mayor in 1570–1 , when he was knighted , and again in 1591 , when he stepped in on the death of a mayor in mid-term . |
| 19 | At the other end of North Africa , on 8 November , Anglo-American forces had landed in Algeria , and Rommel had retreated right back to the Agheila position , where he dug in on the defensive . |
| 20 | Anytime But I remember bloody you coming in on a Sunday morning sometimes you , bloody can hardly the bed ! |
| 21 | Occasionally he came in on her while she was engaged in odd projects — dressing up and prancing round their small bedroom , or reciting . |