Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] in [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On longer journeys , the gas turbine cuts in to take the strain off the batteries and to ensure they are charged up ready for when the car next drives into a city . |
| 2 | But worries over its future have been allayed after Darlington college stepped in to subsidise the cost of employing a full time teacher at the unit to ensure it can continue its daytime classes . |
| 3 | The formal ought may look rather too like an artificial construct brought in to make the theory work and some might well wonder how the special functional legal ought could simultaneously be regarded , as I purport to regard it , as a moral ought . |
| 4 | Hysterical residents , many of them in their nightclothes , raced from the block as the fire brigade went in to quell the flames . |
| 5 | But the Arts Council stepped in to buy the place in 1976 and re-opened it as a traditional theatre with Frank Carson in pantomime in December 1980 . |
| 6 | Leeds , though , had good spells and 37-year-old Day , their goalkeeping coach brought in to replace the injured John Lukic , said : ‘ City were n't four goals better than us but the players need a rest . |
| 7 | A moment 's hesitation allowed another kit to dash in to steal the prize . |
| 8 | Anyway , when the accountant came in to do the books he said er , oh he said you 've got to pay something . |
| 9 | I mean I have to cope with about five thousand different individuals each week erm at Portslade Community College , erm fifteen hundred full-time eleven to eighteen year olds , and the rest adults from the community coming in to use the college . |
| 10 | Through his binoculars , Campana now watched a counter-attack go in to retake the lost trenches , led by a young lieutenant of his class at St. Cyr , wearing white gloves . |
| 11 | As other members of the pride moved in to share the meal , the remaining zebras in the herd at first startled by the drama quickly settled back to grazing . |
| 12 | These castings-on involved the whole lost-wax process , the missing parts being first modelled in position in wax , the whole enveloped in clay and metal run in to replace the wax . |
| 13 | Once a month , a gardener comes in to do the heavy work for me , and I hope he 'll dig the new pond . |
| 14 | The vet brought in to treat the animals says he 's never encounted so much neglect . |
| 15 | The truth is that Holland were not Holland last night , just a raw collection drafted in to complement the remnants of their regular side . |
| 16 | And she would be if I could have a woman come in to scrub the floors . ’ |
| 17 | His obligatory attendance of the 40th birthday party of East Germany has helped to leave that self-advertised ‘ pillar of European stability ’ and ‘ trustiest of friends of the Soviet Union ’ looking more unstable than at any time since the Red Army moved in to suppress the uprising of 17 June 1953 . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ I was with him when the call came in to do the video so I was listening to the call , although I was minding my own business . |
| 19 | The new government brought in to replace the one that resigned a month ago turns out to be little more than a royal-family reshuffle . |
| 20 | They want the Government to step in to safeguard the hospital 's future , at a time when staff are pushing for a multi million pound redevelopment of the site . |
| 21 | At the last opening , 400 visitors in one afternoon flocked in to admire the Weedons ' strikingly formal walkways flanked by irises , lavender , peonies and closely clipped privet hedges . |
| 22 | Not three studio boffins and a model got in to do the video ; not a TV celeb on the make ; and not a bunch of suffering-for-their-art students whose only ambition is to get in the indie charts and be interviewed in Melody Maker . |
| 23 | And Tom Hanks bravely piled on the pounds to play the part of Jimmy Dugan , a tobacco-spitting drunk and played-out former star brought in to manage the girls . |
| 24 | This was an attempt to provide a readable , reasonably objective report of the event which would reflect both sides of the argument ( and with gossip and humour thrown in to lighten the load ) . |
| 25 | The effects must be charming , to see the dark green elm with the lighter shades of the lime and beech or the yellowish green planes with the silver-leaved abele , the Chestnut , the poplar , the acacia , the horse-chestnut , cum multis aliis , when fanned by a gentle breeze , then how beautiful the contrast , how delightfully the light and shade fall in to diversify the sylvan scene . |
| 26 | THE £400,000 launch of a professional pool circus yesterday ended in farce when an angry shopkeeper burst in to take the jackets off the backs of the leading players . |
| 27 | Just as a male is about to mate with his partner , the bystanding male swoops in to take the other 's place . |
| 28 | Then the sea moved in to meet the mountain 's flow |
| 29 | But while mum and dad stayed in to watch the telly , young people were at the pub , drinking light ale at 10p a time . |
| 30 | After that , his mother came in to wash the glasses up . |