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

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1 They asked me in for tea , and we all listened to the morning news on Radio Tonga , crackling over the miles from the aerials down in Tongatapu .
2 Yeah , yeah well that 's what Pauline does sometimes when I go up she has them in for friendship , a bit of company in n it ?
3 At Barvas Lodge knickerbockered ladies with good stud pearl earrings invited me in for tea .
4 They say they 're keeping me in for observation .
5 Another episode that gave him much reassurance was the time when Kate invited him in for tea at the Rectory .
6 If you build it in by design , like we build this in
7 booking it in as book twice stage you see .
8 Ellwood pursed his lips round a bean and sucked it in like spaghetti , then touched his mouth and hands with his napkin before taking a sip from a full glass of red wine .
9 Nothing was too much to ask if it prolonged her stay , she thought wistfully , so she smiled as she said , ‘ Considering that I was the culprit who booked them in on Ling 's day off , it 's the least I can do . ’
10 They d they should do them in like fishing shops
11 I wo n't bring them in here , put them in round back .
12 I put them in before luncheon I know I did .
13 ‘ There is no more money to spend but Frank could bring somebody in on loan if he wanted .
14 Mix it in with water and then filter it out .
15 He says all they did was just put it in for storage and then wait for the police to call but the first he heard was on Monday .
16 Ow that 's sharp , put it in there now please , put it in for mummy
17 Well he mixed with all the stars and of course , I suppose part of the underworld , but er they reckon that he did n't kill himself , I mean they did bring it in as suicide but er they reckon that you know , there 's people think he was murdered .
18 Doing it manually , it had to be done over a period of two or three days , fitting it in after work . ’
19 cos he filled it in at weekend and I posted it Monday or Tuesday , one of them two
20 Barricade myself in at dusk each evening ? ’
21 And you made you in like camera work , or could you actually
22 I mean if the fe if the ferries were like early sort of bo got you in at lunch time
23 Rita decided to quell her anxieties , after hearing about an amnesty program for illegal immigrants , by turning herself in to immigration authorities .
24 Even John Stuart Mill who , as one would expect , greatly admired Socrates , describing him in On Liberty , rather extravagantly , as " the head and prototype of all subsequent teachers of virtue " and " the acknowledged master of all the eminent thinkers who have since lived , " was moved to protest at this probably misplaced generosity : " The Athenian Many , of whose irritability and suspicion we hear so much , are rather to be accused of too easy and good-natured a confidence , when we reflect that they had living in the midst of them the very men who , on the first show of an opportunity , were ready to compass the subversion of the democracy . "
25 ‘ We 'll keep him in for observation just for tonight .
26 She had had him in to hospital .
27 Be alright getting one in for Easter .
28 Mr Hutton often calls her in for dictation and then she gets behind with her work for Malcolm , but he gets annoyed with me rather than her .
29 It 's best not to try and fit it in during school breaks because you need a continuous stretch of time at it .
30 I know that my hon. Friend will understand that I can make no comments about the merits of the proposal which is the subject of our debate or about the case for calling it in for determination by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State .
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