Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] in [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 I could feel my heart going boom-ba-di-boom — imagined my heart when it was dead , all its auricles and ventricles shrinking and wrinkling like burst balloons after my head got bashed in on the rocks .
2 You can count on the fingers of one hand the times Mr Kinnock has jumped in among the public .
3 The bridge has fallen in with the Mayor and Corporation on it .
4 Gran has joined in on the act .
5 President Berisha , however , has given in to the nationalists over the question of property restitution .
6 Since the disease is heterosexually transmitted in Africa , the group which has come in for the most blame for its rapid spread have been the many poor women who have been supporting themselves in Nairobi through commercial sex .
7 From Wolhusen the circular itinerary now continues south on road 10 which has come in on the left ( ie east from Luzern .
8 All the lights are up and cold air has come in with the officials .
9 But , in such a statement , the fact that were sides has crept in round the back .
10 Panic has set in as the league 's Draconian restructuring unfolds with four clubs relegated from Division One and seven from Division Two .
11 The most famous face of all has slipped in during the seemingly inexorable rise in predicted numbers of Conservative seats .
12 This is where the Arts Council has stepped in with the argument that if the scheme promotes a form of art which does not conform to their qualitative criteria , it should be abolished .
13 ‘ You tend to forget all the hard work that has gone in over the season .
14 This is our first effort at a full newsletter and we now really appreciate how much effort Lynn has put in over the last few years .
15 The efforts that Sony has put in for the NEWS outside Japan would give NEC a flying start in the US and Europe should it decide to enter the international workstation market .
16 It occurs as that in Judges 9.9 and 13 , and here it might indicate nothing more than the all-embracing nature of the struggles which Jacob has engaged in during the course of his life .
17 I glance , speculatively , towards the window , where more bad weather has blown in from the North Sea .
18 A baffled ox has horned in through the wall .
19 But William 's grandad was too busy working to notice or care , riding shotgun to a great clattering brute of a knitting machine that reminded him of the Irish cobs he 'd broken in for the brewery ; he could knit thirty fully fashioned stockings an hour , sixteen hours a day .
20 He 'd got in with the punks and seen immediately what they were doing , what a renaissance this was in music .
21 ‘ I 'd got in amongst the sharks , filming them in a feeding frenzy . ’
22 Mind , he 'd crashed in on the situation pretty damn quickly , stepping in and being nice to her almost before she had dried her eyes , trying to get her on the rebound .
23 Instead of liking the look of the water , wading in carefully and finding it was wonderful , she 'd tumbled in at the deep end .
24 She was cracking those damn peppermints in her back teeth to disguise the fact she 'd called in at the Oyster Bar on her way up . ’
25 no did n't like how he grouted it because she said there , things like a little nick in the tile , if he 'd gone in with the grouting it would n't of shown any and he did n't
26 Michael had been hitting the phone , recruiting some key staff from hotels he 'd worked in in the past .
27 so we started called her lip , but that happened before I got there so , as I got there it just like , as I joined got in with the regulars it started to peter out a bit , but I got fooled with a couple of times I thought they were taking the piss , alright Lynn how you doing , you know , still .
28 As Sharapour fell back it seemed for a moment as if he would get in the way of Mill Reef on the rails , but Lewis was alert to the perils of getting boxed in up the short Longchamp straight and pulled Mill Reef out to begin his challenge .
29 In the general excitement — the novel has scarcely begun — it gets borne in upon the reader that Stavrogin 's conduct is not the only thing to be puzzled by .
30 Juan Sosa , former Panamanian ambassador in Washington , said that , if the US had been ‘ more active ’ , several battalions of wavering Panamanian troops would have joined in on the rebel side .
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