Example sentences of "[verb] in [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bumpy ride : Major flies in to fight for a key marginal . |
| 2 | Some of the unskilled youngsters drafted in to help with the decorating did not . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The last man in , John Bendall had already injured himself when we were fielding and he also came in to bat with a runner . |
| 9 | His parachute was caught by turbulence as he came in to land on a school playing field . |
| 10 | The small jet came in to land with a rush at Marco Polo Airport and , brakes squealing a protest , taxied clear of the runway . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When Helen came in to help with the spaying operation she looked rather nervous . |
| 14 | Just before she turned the sign on the door round to read ‘ Closed ’ , a woman came in to look at the toys . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Several joined in to complain about the tribute required by the deputy in Riba . |
| 17 | When the gunmen climbed in to sit on the benches at the side they had to put their booted feet on the prisoners . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | A police helicopter has been called in to search for an armed robber who 's raided five petrol stations in three weeks . |
| 22 | ‘ He could , of course , from the son 's own appearance , have deduced that the father must be at least in his late sixties or seventies and he could , of course , have called in to talk to the father personally when he drove round to have a look at the property . |
| 23 | The federal army has been called in to act as a buffer in areas of high tension . |
| 24 | the complexity of science , which renders forging a direct causal link between corporate practice and the death , injury , or economic loss of employees , consumers , and the general public , very difficult to prove ‘ beyond a reasonable doubt ’ , particularly when those ‘ experts ’ called in to testify to the relationship add so many qualifications and possibilities that almost everything appears possible but nothing certain . |
| 25 | MI6 , Scotland Yard and the FBI had been called in to hunt for the shadowy Surrey-born spy . |
| 26 | A team of British scientists have been called in to help save the city of Venice from flooding . |
| 27 | The arrival of bailiffs often results in fear and confusion … just a fortnight ago police reinforcements were called in to help with an eviction from a house in Brockworth . |
| 28 | A continuous series of 15mm ( ½in ) diameter holes is drilled into the wall near dpc level and a silicone resin fed in to soak into the brick or stonework . |
| 29 | About 40,000 brokerage accounts were transferred to Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc. in the USA , while in London the Bank of England and city institutions stepped in to deal with the consequences of the collapse on the foreign exchange . |
| 30 | Starting in South Island , you will find that flying in to land amid the snowfields of Mount Cook or the ice of Fox Glacier of Franz Josef in the Southern Alps is something PPL visitors can unfortunately only do as passengers in the fixed-wing or chopper flights that operate out of local airfields . |