Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] in on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The roof literally fell in on Montreal last year when storms ripped off their Olympic Stadium 's retractable top , and they finished last in the National League East . |
| 2 | Finally I turned and started back , not conscious of anything , my mind still locked in on the impression the place had made so that I only vaguely heard a voice calling me . |
| 3 | Both convergent and divergent modes of thought are necessary for a creative act to occur : the writer must actually arrange his freely associated ideas into organised prose or the scientist finally home in on the solution to a problem . |
| 4 | Faster than a machine gun , it can reach peak rates of 200 pulses per second as the bat finally closes in on the moving target . |
| 5 | The antibiotic mould supposedly drifting in on the wind becomes prosaic when its magic is revealed only by tedious operations in a laboratory or factory . |
| 6 | A scanner simply listens in on these signals . |
| 7 | Though it looks painfully obvious described so baldly , this scheme is wonderfully successful in dramatising the way in which life gradually closes in on Peter , driving him inexorably to madness and suicide . |
| 8 | Yesterday the Scottish Landowners ' Federation also got in on the act , claiming that the quota sale had confirmed fears about value . |
| 9 | That determined the Speaker never to cash in on his office with a book of personal revelations . |
| 10 | They both jumped when , with a loud crash , a two-storey house suddenly caved in on itself . |
| 11 | I have been listening in to the E-Mail for some weeks , and in fact even coming in on weekend to pick up the results and comments . |