Example sentences of "[verb] in [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.

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1 This fits in with the traditionally tight control that local authority finance directors like to keep .
2 She slept unexpectedly soundly , and when she next opened her eyes , daylight was filtering in through the rather grimy window .
3 Since the disease is heterosexually transmitted in Africa , the group which has come in for the most blame for its rapid spread have been the many poor women who have been supporting themselves in Nairobi through commercial sex .
4 And already in similiar circumstances in France last summer he had been presented with the kind of opportunity to prove himself that many young pianists must dream of in vain : he was called on , again at very short notice , to stand in for the even more illustrious Sviatoslav Richter at Richter 's own festival at the Grange Meslay near Tours .
5 As he did so , the three fire tenders roared in through the newly created gap .
6 Secondly , the championship itself was especially rich in first-class drivers : Ferrari , his chief rivals , had Niki Lauda and Clay Regazzoni as its main drivers ( with Reutemann filling in for the grievously injured Lauda at Monza ) , and Lauda , far more than Hunt , was at the very peak of his form , the peak of Lauda 's form being , together with Alain Prost 's , the summit of racing artistry .
7 Lennox also hit back at critics , who claim he should have avoided the dangerous Ruddock and hidden himself away for a world title shot , snapping : ‘ I know the British fight fans will respect me for going in against the best instead of facing an easy touch .
8 LIVERPOOL 'S Irish Sea trade has been strengthened as the port 's Coastal Container Line links in to the most modern container terminal in Britain .
9 Donna moved close to it , peering in at the finely sculpted features , momentarily distracted by the sheer artistry of the effigy .
10 They are fed in onto this global trunk circuit erm from many feeder lines , sometimes by radio , sometimes by telephone , but they get in onto the very high-speed trunk circuit , and of those eight and half thousand observations made every hour , it takes between four and five minutes for six and half thousand of them to reach us at Bracknell .
11 Here 's a tough but effective way of honing in on the most meaningful elements of your life .
12 The most famous face of all has slipped in during the seemingly inexorable rise in predicted numbers of Conservative seats .
13 Sitting with the curtains open and the moon shining in on the barely begun big glass , he wrote , sitting keeping vigil with it all night after my walk with Paz , I was afraid .
14 The fact that they tapped in to the rapidly expanding European market undoubtedly helped the giant US firms to offset some of the effects of slow domestic growth .
15 It also weighs in as the most comfortable waterproof jacket I 've worn .
16 You ca n't see it but that 's where it 's generated in between the in between those two .
17 Alan set up the legal part of it and the political side and I would come in with the more spiritual side of it : the demand for separation from the Irish Presbyterian Church that was operating in cahoots with O'Neill at that time .
18 Certain men have been trying to get in on the politically correct act for a while .
19 They burst in on the somewhat startled signalman who was puzzled by the dramatic appearance of the two familiar faces .
20 The Sunday Telegraph ( February 1961 ) cashed in on the rapidly expanding quality Sunday market , built up most effectively by the Sunday Times ( whose colour magazine started in the same year ) .
21 So he went back to bed and slid in beside the now silent , still figure of Emily , and nursed his throbbing right wrist with his left hand and imagined himself as one of those recumbent stone knights you sometimes see in churches , stretched out with arms crossed at the breast , cold and grey and dead , feeling no pain .
22 Likewise , the distinctive black and yellow ichneumon wasp Amblyteles armatorius will crawl in beside the very same moth caterpillars that it may later parasitise with its eggs .
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