Example sentences of "[verb] in [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bumpy ride : Major flies in to fight for a key marginal . |
| 2 | The house they lived in belonged to a German lady , a Miss Wacker , who had been home in her own country when war broke out and was unable to return . |
| 3 | A door at the end of the hall opened , and Arkhina came in attended by a serving woman . |
| 4 | He had scarcely settled to work when his stepmother came in followed by a sad-eyed little King Charles spaniel who immediately began exploring the corners of the room . |
| 5 | The last man in , John Bendall had already injured himself when we were fielding and he also came in to bat with a runner . |
| 6 | He came in running like a fat sow , his uniform 's half burned off his fucking back . ’ |
| 7 | His parachute was caught by turbulence as he came in to land on a school playing field . |
| 8 | The small jet came in to land with a rush at Marco Polo Airport and , brakes squealing a protest , taxied clear of the runway . |
| 9 | They came in to land in a snowscape , the lights along the thin ribbon of recently cleared runway coming into view and stretching out in front of them as the Seneca descended on its final approach . |
| 10 | When a pupil came in asking for a special book , he would rush and find it before Mr Crangle . |
| 11 | They 're invited in to talk about a particular thing that 's coming in , about noise or about rats in the basement or about how to , and the interviewer has a very vague idea it 's a topic he 's heard it , he 's thought about it , he thinks it 's a local thing , and he 's actually trying to get something out of it in a sense . |
| 12 | And Mum and Dad are going off on holiday on Saturday , so they wo n't be popping in to visit for a couple of weeks . ’ |
| 13 | A police helicopter has been called in to search for an armed robber who 's raided five petrol stations in three weeks . |
| 14 | The federal army has been called in to act as a buffer in areas of high tension . |
| 15 | The arrival of bailiffs often results in fear and confusion … just a fortnight ago police reinforcements were called in to help with an eviction from a house in Brockworth . |
| 16 | She had just enough money left after selling up in Mexico to buy a small finca in Ibiza , where she settled in to survive on a war widow 's pension and the proceeds from her annual harvest of almonds . |
| 17 | Ray Shepherd looked up at them as coolly as if he had just driven in to work on a routine day . |
| 18 | Before I had completed a question about whether he would like to be Chancellor , MacGregor broke in to say with a smile , as he had to : ‘ But I am enjoying being at transport . |
| 19 | A Soviet tank may not be comfortable to ride in compared with a NATO tank , but it is reliable , easy to repair , and built quite deliberately for a particular kind of terrain , support system and warfare . |
| 20 | I mean I suppose there is in all social work in a sense , that if you go in to look at a family and , and you 're trying to assess you know whether the children should be taken into care , well you 're exercising a a sort of statutory erm er sort of responsibility , and as far as the clients are concerned , er if you , like that can sort of get in the way of er er a more human sort of relationship if you see what I mean , because |
| 21 | We obeyed and went in to sit in a sombre half-circle round the fire . |
| 22 | If the carer moves in to look after a couple ( eg elderly parents ) on the death of one spouse the tenancy goes to the surviving spouse . |
| 23 | Now I 'm not I 'm asking is whether its shareholders could write in to apply for a concessionary ticket to Alton Towers and get a reduced price if they so wish . |
| 24 | There 's only myself and Adam , you know , barring Mrs Elswick as comes in to cook of an afternoon . ’ |