Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] in [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 24 , said : ‘ They agreed to stand in as headliners at the last minute .
2 Because she said she do n't want to come in on nights .
3 Or or indeed does Mr want to come in on vacancies ?
4 Information has come in from readers , amused , serious and knowledgeable .
5 ‘ It was a dynastic marriage designed to fit in with rules and regulations , a political arrangement rather than a personal one .
6 If British tennis is to ever rise above the mediocrity that it has wallowed in for decades , then juniors have to be given greater access to courts and coaching .
7 The UK shares market has been one of the most buoyant in the world and over the past 12 months £80 billion has flooded in from investors .
8 MY Mont Blanc fountain pen is en panne and has gone in for repairs .
9 It has romped in with profits of £5m since it was acquired from the Virgin airlines boss in June and should make more than Pounds 40m to £50m in the full year .
10 I hope to go in with songs we are all happy with , the arrangements agreed and the musicians properly prepared .
11 Deputation after deputation came pouring in from constituencies whose candidatures had been assigned to Lloyd George Liberals .
12 ‘ A few minutes later two guys came running in with masks on they were both shouting and swearing and told me to lie on the ground .
13 Ministers may try to make a statement ( they secure this every Thursday with the weekly business statement ) ; the Opposition may seek to have a Private Notice Question ; the Government prefer to have a debate on a Government motion or bill ; the Opposition would like to have an Opposition Day when it opens the debate ; and backbenchers seek to get in with points of order and applications for emergency debates .
14 Erm and you do feel shut in at nights when you 're on your own .
15 You 're well-matched with Doreen , who was ready to kick an old lady out of the home she 'd lived in for years . ’
16 Consciousness has , once again , been put on the agenda but the concept of ‘ consciousness ’ has been altered to fit in with ideas coming from fields like machine intelligence .
17 My , my watch is the one Irene bought me gone wrong , it 's had to go in for repairs .
18 Apple Computer Inc , as reported briefly and bittily , since news of these playing away launches tends to come in in dribs and drabs , used the Cebit computer fair in Hannover as the occasion to launch three new Apple Workgroup Servers , along with AppleSearch , its new information access and retrieval service for Mac workgroups .
19 Perhaps your readers would then like to write in with suggestions for improvements .
20 A simple explanation to the child about how mummy is not going to give in to tempers can help the child learn more quickly .
21 However , reports of severe damage and high casualty figures began to come in from communities situated closer to the ‘ quake 's epicentre , and they learned that the emergency services were bringing many of the most badly injured victims in to the capital .
22 We have used them to great effect from boats or for getting baits in under trees or undercut banks where casting has been impossible but the wind has helped to carry the bait into inaccessible areas often inhabited by pike .
23 It has been shown how elderly people move closer to those who can help them sustain their independence , rather than aiming to move in with relatives .
24 He had said he had n't seen her in the shop , so he must have called in on occasions when Ann would be in the sweet shop and Arthur Peeble in the tobacconist 's or her father was there taking Peeble 's place ; he rarely served in the sweet shop .
25 During his round trip ‘ described to death ’ the boat would have called in at ports on the way and the passengers would have had time to wander whilst goods were unloaded and loaded .
26 The cuckoo 's lazy tactic of leaving the hassle of child care to others is well known , but given the chance , fish will also attempt to cash in on others ' parental efforts in various ways .
27 During this same period , the trainee may also be asked to sit in on interviews in their bureau .
28 Even though we spent that money we are projected to come in with balances of three million pounds in excess of the budget figure set by the Conservatives , and that is a six million pounds difference that 's come straight out of the twenty-four and I think it tells us two things .
29 We ( along with our rival colleagues at Christie 's ) had hoped to succeed in including antiques and works of art in the clause of the new Hong Kong basic law which guarantees the exportability of certain types of financial assets after 1997 .
30 Still , she liked one or two of the collective , Xanthe had put some money in ( actually five hundred pounds , a fair whack ) when Miranda had asked her to , so she felt bound to give the paper some support in kind , and the office was fun — she liked pitching in with headings , sidebars , suggested stories , and pasting up till the small hours , with the help of ciggies and carafe wine ; the sex gossip was the best in town , which made up for the coffee ( though they could afford dope , they could n't rise to real coffee , and had at one time even resorted to the bitter brown syrup Camp , with the turbaned lascar on the label ) .
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