Example sentences of "[verb] in [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the game going into added time Michael Galwey , after good work by Geoghegan , Clarke and Bradley , got in for an Irish try . |
| 2 | Jewellery worth £450 was taken after a thief got in through an open window . |
| 3 | We got in to an unreserved seating area for 13 quid . |
| 4 | I listened with interest to my hon. Friend the Member for Stamford and Spalding ( Mr. Davies ) , who almost conveyed the impression that he had been parachuted in to an Amazonian jungle in which democratic accountability plays no role , and that we needed the benefit of a judgment on arbitrage and merger policy from New York city . |
| 5 | For the sake of a quiet life he had given in to an unreasonable request and only now did he fully realize what it meant . |
| 6 | But the Signpost Hotel Guide survey of 300 hotel owners showed that fewer people are bothering use a false name when they book in for an illicit weekend . |
| 7 | Austin , Texas-based Dell Computer Corp keeps them coming — yesterday added seven new 80486-based Dimension personal computers at from $1,400 including colour monitor and enhanced graphics built in through an integrated local bus video system : the systems also include 4Mb , 170Mb disk , 3.5 ’ and 5.25 ’ floppies , 512Kb video RAM MS-DOS 6.0 and Windows 3.1 installed , and mouse . |
| 8 | Ed Morrison allowed John Jeffrey to come in from an offside position and ‘ collect ’ a passing movement between two Japanese players while Hayashi was tackled without the ball when a try seemed certain for Japan . |
| 9 | My Boss says a man rings in with an upset stomach and you know either he means a hangover or else his brother managed to get him a ticket for Wembley . |
| 10 | Computing needs to be built in as an integral part of the Horticultural Training programme , so that future students will leave having acquired skills in handling word-processing , database , spreadsheet and design programs for correspondence , reports , record management , financial planning , and graphic techniques . |
| 11 | He had moved in with an older man , TV director Roger Brackett . |
| 12 | She had bought Martyr 's Cottage before his appointment as Director of the power station and he had moved in by an unspoken agreement that this was a temporary expedient while he decided what to do , keep on the Barbican flat as his main home or sell the flat and buy a house in Norwich and a smaller pied à terre in London . |
| 13 | In the late afternoon , slow to go home , he dropped in on an elderly doctor friend and played tennis . |
| 14 | It was a real Fanny-by-gaslight relic of the old city , redolent of gin and vomit and brutal crimes , and the fog had crept in like an old friend and made a dripping urinal of the walls . |
| 15 | Close to dawn she forced herself into bed , but she was still wide-eyed when the maid came in with an early-morning cup of tea . |
| 16 | Ilse came in with an orange-coloured book . |
| 17 | So I came in with an American-made guitar ( the T-60 ) in a case that retailed for 350 dollars at a time when a Les Paul was 1,000 dollars and a Stratocaster over 800 . |
| 18 | So I came in with an American-made guitar ( the T-60 ) in a case that retailed for 350 dollars at a time when a Les Paul was 1,000 dollars and a Stratocaster over 800 . |
| 19 | The recorder came in with an adagio-like slowness and gravity , momentarily wobbled off-key , then recovered . |
| 20 | Put in on an unyielding wicket , Colwyn were heavily indebted to all-rounder Glyn Gibbons whose 26 not out averted total batting humiliation . |
| 21 | Towards the end of 1989 film and TV scripts were flooding in at an unprecedented rate , spurred on by her successful debut live tour , the incredible success , even by her standards , of her second album ‘ Enjoy Yourself ’ which entered the British LP charts at number one on its first day of release in October that year and the much-anticipated release of The Delinquents . |
| 22 | ‘ It is so good of you to look in on an old invalid when you must be so very busy at the office — what with the Dean 's compost heap yielding such unwholesome remains . ’ |
| 23 | This has to be done by the Tuesday before the weekly Friday sale so that potential buyers can then tune in to an electronic preview of the lots to be offered together with their weights , breed and feed methods . |
| 24 | Bolton , unbeaten before Saturday 's match , fell behind in the opening minute when right-winger Ryan Hill drifted into the penalty area , met a cross from the left , and fired in from an acute angle . |
| 25 | Instead officers climbed in through an open window and arrested Mr Bellamy . |
| 26 | Arguments of this sort which confused the " lower sorts of men " with the " higher sorts of ape " were not simply exercises in increasingly refined scientific discrimination ; they were closely meshed in with an ongoing dialectical debate , the original purpose of which had been to establish a synthesis between the theological doctrine of the Fall and the newly discovered facts of human geography . |
| 27 | Further , this chapter also sets out to exemplify some of the problems we confront in considering an undisputed literary text ( The Faerie Queene ) in the context of a piece of writing which does not purport to be a fiction ( A View of the Present State of Ireland ) , yet which uses the generic and rhetorical conventions of literary writing . |
| 28 | As Steve Bevan , editor of Sales Promotion magazine says : ‘ Companies are now using sales promotion on a more strategic basis , ensuring it ties in with an overall brand strategy . |
| 29 | He was immediately roped in as an extra for the night . |
| 30 | Before the school teacher could answer , there was another rap on the door and Beasley scampered in like an overgrown puppy , casting inquisitive glances at Jim Lancaster and the two police officers . |