Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] in [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty students from the University are coming in as extras . ’ |
| 2 | ASIANS in the West are moving in on Hollywood . |
| 3 | Er has the card been filled in with a date on it ? |
| 4 | The infirmary for the reception of diseased horses was opened on 1 January 1793 , the first horse being led in by Bracy Clark . |
| 5 | A yard or so up the line from the bomb a swivel or ring is tied in as a back stop . |
| 6 | A substantial part of this firewood is brought in from the villages to be sold in the cities , although nobody really knows how much . |
| 7 | Once a disk is put into the disk drive ( see Figure 1.8 ) , a command is typed in on the keyboard , the microcomputer takes a copy of a particular program from the disk and puts it into its memory . |
| 8 | So it is possible that avian death-feigning is tuned in to this one crucial moment of possible escape . |
| 9 | And mummy 's smiling in at him from the outside , look she 's hanging the washing out pretending not to notice what 's going on . |
| 10 | ‘ The only problem is , my car is going in for a service , so maybe you could do me a favour and give me a lift there ? |
| 11 | Therefore , the less this inner consciousness or Life Force is hemmed in by an instinctive mind structure , then the greater is the capacity for caring feeling and the more an offspring is capable of learning . |
| 12 | Posi then told me that a comm-call was coming in from the Famlio ship , but I told her to ignore it . |
| 13 | Although most Panamanians will welcome the departure of General Noriega , the fact that their new President was sworn in by a US army general at a US army base is likely to colour perceptions of the new government . |
| 14 | Then a motorcyclist was brought in on a blue light , a dispatch rider who had been burning along the Norwich road and hit a patch of oil . |
| 15 | Marco was moving in on her again . |
| 16 | ( At their first overhaul , this batch were given full internal bulkheads and an extra seat was squeezed in on the top deck . ) |
| 17 | But within minutes , confirmation was coming in on all sides : from our headquarters in London , from the teleprinter flashes , from national newspaper reporters stunned like us and now eager to hear what we thought about it . |
| 18 | The last brush stroke was put in by 3am on the day it was unveiled in the children 's ward at South Cleveland Hospital ! |
| 19 | Fresh tea was brought in for her , and when she said she must go , Basil took her home . |
| 20 | The tea was brought in by Annunciata . |
| 21 | The tea was brought in by two of Louise 's house-maids . |
| 22 | The bus the 30-year-old hooker was travelling in to Manchester airport suffered a puncture and Bishop made the rendezvous with only minutes to spare . |
| 23 | I 'll wager the Young Pretender was invited in for a Grolsch on his way back from a cave . |
| 24 | But light was spilling in through the seams of the door at the far end of the room ; crimson , glowing light from whatever lay on the other side . |
| 25 | Limp orange light was leaking in around the edges of a grey blind . |
| 26 | A soft light was flooding in through the tower windows . |
| 27 | A little grey light was coming in through the window . |
| 28 | She slept unexpectedly soundly , and when she next opened her eyes , daylight was filtering in through the rather grimy window . |
| 29 | Trapped against the hard edge of the wooden shelving by the taut pressure of his muscled thighs , the folly of her panicked action was borne in on her with devastating precision . |
| 30 | Congress ( I ) , which emerged with 12 of the 13 Lok Sabha seats and a clear overall Assembly majority with 87 seats , hailed the result as a triumph , and a Congress ( I ) state administration was sworn in on Feb. 25 . |