Example sentences of "[verb] in [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I sit in between these two men and I |
| 2 | More dangerous , however , is the ease with which anti-racists ( who see racism as the prime enemy ) have largely fallen in behind this new religious definition of community , despite its damaging implications for the most vulnerable groups , particularly women . |
| 3 | The fact that the ad sits in between other normal commercials gives it added impact , but the trouble is it tackles the symptoms , not the cause and could feed on guilt . |
| 4 | What worries Spenser is how human action fits in with this determined overall scheme of things whose main signposts can be discerned in Scripture , but whose timetable and precise unravelling are not clear . |
| 5 | ‘ If you 'd bothered to listen to me , ’ Peter went on , ‘ instead of simply wading in with all those slanderous accusations about her , I 'd have told you earlier . ’ |
| 6 | They had found a small table tucked in between three long ones , and had already been given a jug of iced water , a long loaf , a pot of butter and a plate of olives . |
| 7 | One interviewer wrote that it sounds like it 's been squatted in by thirteen separate Puerto Rican junkie families with tubercular in-laws and half a dozen barking dogs . |
| 8 | But I just used to have this dream , of all these animals , and I had to go in with all these animals , it was actually full , crammed full of animals , that were all out to eat me , and , kill me , |
| 9 | In that way , we would increase national expenditure on training and the Secretary of State would not have to go in for these dictatorial measures . |
| 10 | Was there ever a time when you had to go in for more drastic measures ? |
| 11 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
| 12 | But if the Section Sergeant goes in for any necessary purpose , the Inspector comes in , he is reported and gets a severe reprimand from his superiors for idling his time in the Station . |
| 13 | And she said wait here Mr and in she goes in to this bloody meeting and out he came . |
| 14 | It 's not actually automatic because you can stay in for those extra up up to five years if you so choose . |
| 15 | The idea that , that human beings are a species whose social interactions are very critical , as we know social interactions are also very important to reproductive success , and so I bring in inside this analytic cooperation the idea about deception and the evolution of the unconscious , that press deceivers do n't know that , deceiving . |
| 16 | They are only too painfully aware how they could cash in on any multi-coloured shirt worn by one of Europe 's best known goalkeepers . |
| 17 | You can also create beautiful designs in outline , which are then filled in with full satin-stitch embroidery in up to five different colours . |
| 18 | So people have rung in on this direct line to find out what 's going on and things appertaining that could be useful to them . |
| 19 | An' she drops in for another little drop , |
| 20 | All of the evidence from cognitive studies thus far indicates that human behaviour lies in between these two extremes , that is , in the category we have termed ‘ gene-culture transmission ’ of culture . |
| 21 | All that happens is that the animal waits until the treated garments are discarded and then homes in on some other , more suitable surface . |
| 22 | ‘ Unless your estimable uncle had expensive amusements , Master Hussey , you must surely have come in for this very money along with the rest . ’ |
| 23 | The term New Historicism has come in for considerable hostile criticism both from those who claim that there is nothing particularly new about it and among those who admire new historical methods but feel the term incorrectly suggests a unified theoretical field and subsequent critical practice within a body of critical writing in which much contending diversity exists . |
| 24 | They 've just come in for ninety three . |
| 25 | Bernstein 's work has come in for some strong criticism recently . |
| 26 | Of the new ‘ Nepmen ’ , two were Jews who had come in from some other guberniia , and the other three all had military experience but little capital in goods or cash . |
| 27 | I 've got the whole weight of the whole earth pressing in on this little box . |
| 28 | She was about to risk departing for an early lunch , a move which she would not have dared to make if Miss Coldharbour had been in the office , but Julia gathered she was out for the morning and not expected in until two fifteen . |
| 29 | Then the old old binder used to come in with two two year old stalwarts , horses , and he used to go round this field and it used to take him days . |
| 30 | Well sometimes if I 'm doing er say a sixty year old , to sixty five , he 's got his state pension to come in at sixty five , so even if the P E P has n't quite recovered , he might just decide to leave that where it is , and then his state pension comes in , his income is then made up , and off we go again . |