Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] in on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The roof literally fell in on Montreal last year when storms ripped off their Olympic Stadium 's retractable top , and they finished last in the National League East . |
| 2 | Finally I turned and started back , not conscious of anything , my mind still locked in on the impression the place had made so that I only vaguely heard a voice calling me . |
| 3 | Both convergent and divergent modes of thought are necessary for a creative act to occur : the writer must actually arrange his freely associated ideas into organised prose or the scientist finally home in on the solution to a problem . |
| 4 | The F–104 and T–33 also got in on the act , all are now based at Oshkosh . |
| 5 | The Welsh international Dean Saunders also got in on the hat-trick act as Derby County overturned a 2-1 deficit against Cambridge United with a 5-0 victory to leave them 6-2 overall winners . |
| 6 | Faster than a machine gun , it can reach peak rates of 200 pulses per second as the bat finally closes in on the moving target . |
| 7 | When Ceauŝescu personally came in on the act they faked a car accident and tricked up a couple of bodies for the Securitate to send back to England . |
| 8 | The antibiotic mould supposedly drifting in on the wind becomes prosaic when its magic is revealed only by tedious operations in a laboratory or factory . |
| 9 | A scanner simply listens in on these signals . |
| 10 | Though it looks painfully obvious described so baldly , this scheme is wonderfully successful in dramatising the way in which life gradually closes in on Peter , driving him inexorably to madness and suicide . |
| 11 | Yesterday the Scottish Landowners ' Federation also got in on the act , claiming that the quota sale had confirmed fears about value . |
| 12 | Dieter went off and returned a few minutes later with the information that Marie-Claire never came in on a Wednesday because her children 's school was closed on that day . |
| 13 | That determined the Speaker never to cash in on his office with a book of personal revelations . |
| 14 | Another local woman said : ‘ Angela always called in on her mother before she went to work in the mornings . |
| 15 | She should have been feeling relaxed , but too many thoughts still crowded in on her , and there were no solutions to any of them . |
| 16 | So there I was lying in bed as the Mafias slowly closed in on me . |
| 17 | They both jumped when , with a loud crash , a two-storey house suddenly caved in on itself . |
| 18 | I have been listening in to the E-Mail for some weeks , and in fact even coming in on weekend to pick up the results and comments . |
| 19 | CHARLTON banked £350,000 then cashed in on more good fortune . |