Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] in on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Historically it has homed in on sociology as the generic symbol of reformatory zealousness , regarding its practitioners almost as ‘ folk devils ’ or bogeymen . |
| 2 | When you plead guilty and you get sent in on remand , then you get treated like a sentenced prisoner , because you 're guilty . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A German bomb had reduced the house next door to rubble and part of the ceiling of his own room had caved in on top of him . |
| 5 | Stephen said hallo to Dadda before going upstairs to start work on the three-piece suite they had brought in on Friday . |
| 6 | So it seems Wimbledon , who have cashed in on £12 million of talent since winning the FA Cup in l988 , could be in for more money . |