Example sentences of "[verb] in [verb] [prep] [art] " 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 Some of the unskilled youngsters drafted in to help with the decorating did not .
4 Applying the multiplier of eighteen to that figure , one arrives at a figure of fifty eight thousand one hundred and sixty two pounds and fifty pence which when the additional costs are added in comes to the total of fifty nine thousand and forty three pence , I 'm sorry , fifty nine thousand forty three pounds and seventy five pence which is the figure I would award under this heading .
5 Erm you had a statement of Barbara 's , if it was in there , it was planned so that you crew can work harder erm although you filled in the bonus question well , the there was a tend dangerous tendency for you be sucked in to go into the bonus and I think you did well to say yeah well we 'd better walk along to that so you held out which was nice because if I had if you had n't tackled that you might have been shown the door once you 'd gone through that .
6 While the so-called ‘ superminis ’ — cars like the Peugeot 205 and the new Ford Fiesta — grow larger and more expensive , the Eastern bloc car makers have quietly crept in to capitalise on the market for more affordable transport .
7 ‘ Let me invite you to dinner in an hour , ’ said George , ‘ and ’ — this was addressed to Mrs Robinson , who had crept in to stand in the doorway and hear the end of the story , and now stepped forward to play a part — ‘ please , let us borrow your daughter for the evening so that we four can be a company .
8 Blaise Cendrars , the writer , saw Modigliani let fall a twenty-franc note one evening when a well-known pauper came in to sit at the next table .
9 A door at the end of the hall opened , and Arkhina came in attended by a serving woman .
10 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 .
11 All of them failed , from the disastrous Purko Sheep Ranch , where the sheep died because the ranch was at too high an altitude , to the four big grazing schemes which went under in the drought of the early 1960s , when people from outside the schemes , under pressure of need , came in to graze on the permanent waters and massive erosion occurred .
12 The last man in , John Bendall had already injured himself when we were fielding and he also came in to bat with a runner .
13 He came in running like a fat sow , his uniform 's half burned off his fucking back . ’
14 This morning Betty — my cleaner — came in bursting with the news that there was a brass plate outside .
15 His parachute was caught by turbulence as he came in to land on a school playing field .
16 The small jet came in to land with a rush at Marco Polo Airport and , brakes squealing a protest , taxied clear of the runway .
17 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 .
18 A few days after that Norman Prince , the founder of the Lafayette , flying long and late in an attempt to avenge Rockwell , hit a high-tension cable as he came in to land in the dark .
19 When a pupil came in asking for a special book , he would rush and find it before Mr Crangle .
20 When Helen came in to help with the spaying operation she looked rather nervous .
21 Just before she turned the sign on the door round to read ‘ Closed ’ , a woman came in to look at the toys .
22 Er many members of the public took advantage of the offer of the more detailed appraisal er and indeed came in to look at the detailed consultants reports .
23 At no stage would this reference ever be admissible because it 's not going to be relevant after your shield 's gone in because your shield going in relates to the questions understanding be agree or correct me but this is how I understand the situation .
24 Unless she 's been fiddling the books — and my accountant does n't think so — the profits your Miss Philimore has been turning in seem on the low side for a site like that .
25 Several joined in to complain about the tribute required by the deputy in Riba .
26 When the gunmen climbed in to sit on the benches at the side they had to put their booted feet on the prisoners .
27 Platt , moved up front as Les Ferdinand 's minder , came close with a shot parried by Benedettini and Bruno Muccioli raced in to head over the bar as the ball appeared to be dropping into goal .
28 How much to put in depends on the population of fish , including other species , for you can not prevent roach , perch , tench and carp etc. , from feeding on your offerings .
29 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 .
30 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 . ’
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