Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] in on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage . |
| 2 | I thought you said there 'd be no problem if I came in on a six-month permit ? ’ |
| 3 | The cheapest way to go was via Colombo and so I dropped in on the local centre there . |
| 4 | When I came back , cos I went in on the way to the hairdresser 's , to find out about it , and I thought I 'd buy him on the way back , when I went back it was still sitting in the same place with its tail hanging out of the back . |
| 5 | Because I mean if we add all these together gents , I mean I pi I homed in on the number , on , on the people , because if you look at our budgets , staff costs are something like ninety percent of our budget |
| 6 | I sat in on a board meeting the week before last and the Manager 's alleged report was nothing more than a series of orders closely followed by a succession of demands . |
| 7 | Way back in 1957 I had talked my boss into allowing me to learn to fly helicopters with the British European Airways Helicopter Unit at Gatwick and in 1960 I sat in on the first ground school course BOAC conducted for their senior captains converting to the first Boeing 707s . |
| 8 | I sat in on the debate yesterday because of my great interest in the role of the inspectorate and in what will happen if schools and local education authorities , however affluent , pay little attention to special needs . |
| 9 | ‘ I sat in on the Jockey Club working party that drew up these latest proposals Their idea was to bring down the number of strokes and they did not seem very interested in what we , the jockeys , had to say . |
| 10 | ‘ I always felt as if you rode in on a white charger and saved me from my loneliness . |
| 11 | She cut in on a station wagon , forcing the driver to brake heavily , then made fifty yards on the hard shoulder . |
| 12 | She was feeling pleased with her progress when she walked in on a typical scene on the terrace of room 216 . |
| 13 | She rang in on the fifth day to say she was no better and did n't feel she was getting anywhere . |
| 14 | erm but you homed in on the needs and you persisted in finding out from me what I wanted which was good and you checked very carefully on the policies in existence so yeah , considering it 's a page which erm can be a bit confusing you did very well . |
| 15 | Many programs will automatically convert the quotes in a word processor file into proper typographic quote marks but what about the ones that you typed in on the keyboard ? |
| 16 | Earlier this week we dropped in on a competitor who was going through erm all the motions of getting his erm display ready and we saw what was involved . |
| 17 | And they were diffic To start them off , we went in on the Thursday , Thursday morning , and we had to fit all these things together and make 'em work , you see ? |
| 18 | So they got in on the scene and I seen young men that was walking the streets that had nowt to do put a football kit on with G M B written across the front turn out and become super human beings , you never seen nowt like it , they were so pleased to associate with like something like that . |
| 19 | Scotland Yard said shots were fired at anti-terrorist squad detectives and a tactical firearms unit as they moved in on a house in Stoke Newington , north London . |
| 20 | As the excluded social forces grew in political strength , so they pressed in on the established constitution in ways which eventually caused it to buckle so that it came to be more in line with their views as to how things should be . |
| 21 | Sometimes they homed in on the right conclusion with remarkable speed ; sometimes they missed the point altogether . |
| 22 | Among the German miscalculations that on various historical occasions have seemed Heaven-sent to save the Allies , Falkenhayn 's denial of reserves to the Crown Prince reminds one of Hitler halting his Panzers before they closed in on the BEF at Dunkirk , different though the motives may have been . |
| 23 | He came in on a boat , I suppose , and he plopped himself down and began making ukuleles , very good ones , and some fabulous guitars which are quite rare nowadays . |
| 24 | Seve Ballesteros , who had shared the overnight lead on 67 , was making no further progress and was still five under par as he came in on the closing holes . |
| 25 | He came in on the Tube as usual , and walked the last quarter-mile . |
| 26 | Yeah , cos we was there in the August , they were n't , we moved in , in the July , there , and the girls were , Matthew was just four , cos just as we moved in our dad took Matthew to Hungary with him , it was like , it was like they were going on the following Wednesday , and he told me on the Friday , he came in on the Friday night , they planned , it was our dad , Crystal and Danielle , Crystal and Danielle , but she said even if I go out in the middle of . |
| 27 | In the late afternoon , slow to go home , he dropped in on an elderly doctor friend and played tennis . |
| 28 | At the other end of North Africa , on 8 November , Anglo-American forces had landed in Algeria , and Rommel had retreated right back to the Agheila position , where he dug in on the defensive . |
| 29 | He was lord mayor in 1570–1 , when he was knighted , and again in 1591 , when he stepped in on the death of a mayor in mid-term . |
| 30 | He cut in on a man who was starting to chat her up — someone who had once given him a bad review . |