Example sentences of "[be] [verb] in [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | Er has the card been filled in with a date on it ? |
2 | 6/Highlights are masked out while areas are filled in with a thin wash . |
3 | He felt like a moth that had been sucked in to a candle flame , but the fluttering was in his chest . |
4 | Route options have been squeezed in down a narrow corridor of land near the A19 . |
5 | The beautiful Thamesside setting of the Cottons Centre , where CCG run customer catering for Citibank , was put to the test this summer with an exclusive dinner for 15 chairmen and chief executives , who have been booked in by a public relations consultancy . |
6 | Social problems are crowding in on a city where the body-count for murders rose from a record 1,905 in 1989 to a new record of more than 2,200 in 1990 . |
7 | Perhaps they had been staved in by a bath chair which had run amok ! |
8 | That is nipples which are turned in like a crater , or which do not stick up by at least half a centimetre when gently pinched between thumb and forefinger from just beyond the base . |
9 | A Middle East dollar market exists in Bahrain where euro-dollars ( and other currencies ) are intermediated in by a number of Arab and non-Arab banks . |
10 | I er I think erm it 's silly not to have it er when you 're going in for a new set . |
11 | Movement , scent and sound can give you away when you 're heading in for a close up shot . |
12 | After a while Strawberry ended by saying , " We 're nearly at the great burrow now , but we 're corning in by a different way . " |
13 | IF you 're tied in to a high mortgage rate it might be worth your while doing the switch . |
14 | They 're coming in on a starship disguised as a Boeing 747 so that the locals wo n't suspect until it 's too late , but when they land at London Heathrow their baggage gets lost ; all their heavy weaponry ends up in Miami and gets mixed up with the luggage of some psychiatrists attending an international symposium on anal-fixation after death , and : Freudians take over the world with the captured high-tech . |
15 | The morning 's cream is quietly clotting on the stove , the gleaming copper pans are being put to use and the farmworkers are filing in to a meal which is pure poetry ; vegetables plucked from the soil within the hour , fresh baked bread , farm butter , eggs , game and fruit . |
16 | He 'd just been shown in by a messenger , and the moment the uniformed official had withdrawn , had expressed surprise and displeasure at finding her to be his interviewer . |
17 | Outlines and details are drawn in with a Rotring pen . |
18 | Outlines and details are drawn in with a Rotring pen . |
19 | A twenty year old man has been called in for a chat with an inspector . |
20 | Changing machines means a new contract , so the company are locked in for a fresh term , again of up to nine years . |
21 | George Dinsdale , stationed at Redcar , said the man , known only as a Mr Kirwan of Lumley Street , Redcar , jumped into the water near a slipway to rescue a youth who had been dragged in by a huge wave . |
22 | New residents are coming in from a wider and wider catchment area . |
23 | Peter Tomlinson , inexperienced in television terms , had been brought in for a key " anchor " role and I could appreciate the excessive pressure on him . |
24 | In 1855 he had been brought in as a partner to Beyer & Peacock 's Gorton factory in Manchester , recently built for the manufacture of railway locomotives , and he maintained an active role in the management of Beyer , Peacock & Co. until his death . |
25 | She also found herself naturally in tune with Laura 's taste and , although her job specification was to oversee the entire design structure for clothes , Laura advised her that she ‘ had been brought in as a flanker to Moira ’ . |
26 | But this dog , known as a Mexican hairless , landed him in court when trading standards officers in Felixstowe discovered it had been brought in without a licence . |
27 | It is the first time troops have been brought in during a dispute since 1978 . |
28 | People see advertisements out of the corner of their eye as they drive along a road or look through a newspaper or magazine ; they catch a glimpse of half a TV commercial round their wives ' or husbands ' broad backsides as the biscuits are brought in during a commercial break . |
29 | Their relationship with the organisation is likely to be transient they are brought in for a particular event and might or might not work again for the same organisation . |
30 | UB may be pencilled in for a show in the King 's Hall on January |