Example sentences of "[verb] in [to-vb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | His parachute was caught by turbulence as he came in to land on a school playing field . |
| 4 | When the gunmen climbed in to sit on the benches at the side they had to put their booted feet on the prisoners . |
| 5 | She had just enough money left after selling up in Mexico to buy a small finca in Ibiza , where she settled in to survive on a war widow 's pension and the proceeds from her annual harvest of almonds . |
| 6 | Ray Shepherd looked up at them as coolly as if he had just driven in to work on a routine day . |
| 7 | French masons were brought in to work on the glorified hunting lodge of Falkland in Fife until it came to resemble a French Renaissance palace in miniature , with the courtyard 's south range richly decorated with Scots thistles , French fleurs-de-lis and pictorial medallions . |
| 8 | It was like coming in to land on the wrinkled hide of some sleeping behemoth . |
| 9 | Very few erm Continental countries would consider entrusting the administration of justice erm to erm people who took an afternoon or a day off work every week or so and went in to sit on the Bench . |
| 10 | There is also a health visitor who comes in to teach on the childcare course and to discuss any health problems , and a doctor who visits monthly to give inoculations and deal with any other aspects of health care . |