Example sentences of "[verb] in [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people who are seizing and occupying the present time can not belong in my colour , they 're like the bits that leap out of a spinning bowl , too heavy , too separate and distinct to be blended in with the other substances ; red-hot stones , flung out and setting on fire the place where they land . |
| 2 | Where the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries gave way to the nineteenth , things became crisper : you read of a profusion of Elizas and Thomases , of beloved wives and lamented parents : white marble crept in with the grey limestone . |
| 3 | We crept in under a low table and covered ourselves with a tarpaulin . |
| 4 | But on the night of January 1st , thieves crept in through a back door and took £30,000 worth of family heirlooms , including two trophies won by the stud farm nearly a century ago : |
| 5 | It crept in amongst the ordered ranks of hieroglyphics in a simple line of graffiti , scrawled in French , on the hull of one of the royal barques : " You must not forget me . " |
| 6 | ‘ You 've fallen in with a right bad pair there , chief . |
| 7 | Andre had fallen in with the legendary Lafons of Meursault — Dominique Lafon was at college at the same time , and Lafon pere had become something of a mentor . |
| 8 | Turkey is flown in with the weekly food supplies , while in Tripoli some enterprising expats even breed turkeys specifically for the festive table . |
| 9 | French military reinforcements , 150 troops , had been flown in from the Central African Republic to evacuate foreign nationals in Kigali . |
| 10 | For example:UNDERSTANDING THE IBM ENVIRONMENT introduces the latest technical information about newly available IBM equipment , how it fits in with the existing range and how this should affect your view of IBM , as a customer . |
| 11 | ‘ To be honest I do n't think it fits in with the Irish way of things . |
| 12 | GM schools will be able to change their character if that is what parents clearly want and the change fits in with the wider needs of the local area . |
| 13 | Parents and teachers usually judge children 's behaviour by whether it fits in with the usual standards — moral , emotional , social and intellectual — set by the society in which they live . |
| 14 | 250 They 've become accustomed What they 're forgetting is that this fits in with the stated local plan and with original proposals set out in 1989 which is n't so long ago but people tend to forget that sort of thing 328 |
| 15 | Gon na see how , per haps perhaps fits in with the other erm bits , so who 's starting off , you 're starting off are n't you ? |
| 16 | This fits in with the general tendency among much of the elite population in Shetland ( and Dunrossness ) to avoid raising ‘ issues ’ ( this has obviously happy consequences for those who are benefitting most from oil-related developments ) . |
| 17 | It admittedly makes intuitive sense , and fits in with the general observation about staffs ' professional identities being a function of their research identities . |
| 18 | ‘ I might have expected such an answer from you , McAllister ; it fits in with the general picture , ’ said Dr Neil angrily , picking up his cane . |
| 19 | You may have a rough idea of where you are going and if it fits in with the cosmic blueprint , doors open easily . |
| 20 | ‘ No doubt , ’ said Mr Harold Brooks-Baker of Burke 's , ‘ it fits in with the freer ways of today but some feel that freedom is an over-used word . |
| 21 | As we said in the last chapter , the Church is well placed to give a positive message at this time , to speak of how mortality is understood and how it fits in with the Christian message of salvation . |
| 22 | This argument fits in with the pluralist notion of power that we discussed at the beginning of the chapter . |
| 23 | While the lucky 30 guinea pigs in Bruno 's experiment were sampling his alternative dishes , the other pupils were tucking in to a typical school dinner of beefburger in a bap , sautee potatoes and jacket potato in cheese , or open sandwiches . |
| 24 | Wind/U , a complete set of Windows APIs operating under Motif that Bristol wrote , is currently in beta and will ship in in the fourth quarter priced at $50,000 per product license . |
| 25 | Only got in for a few minutes as half the church was there . |
| 26 | With the game going into added time Michael Galwey , after good work by Geoghegan , Clarke and Bradley , got in for an Irish try . |
| 27 | He got in through a half-closed larder window . |
| 28 | Jewellery worth £450 was taken after a thief got in through an open window . |
| 29 | More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage . |
| 30 | It was the first time , too , that I 'd been in a classroom with girls , and I got in with a bad bunch of women . |