Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [to-vb] in [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Will I do ? ’ she asked Matey , in her charming , half-joking manner , for Matey to reply in like vein , |
| 2 | He commenced one such exploit in 1970 , when he dropped out of Berkeley to move in with singer Janis Joplin , whom he had met while making a cocaine delivery to her Marin County house . |
| 3 | When you have noted down every single thing which you wish to discuss use the information to prepare a well-ordered list of questions to take in with you . |
| 4 | They gave me 26 quid this week but I rummaged through the shed and found a couple of things to stick in as prizes . |
| 5 | Send the form to your local social security office , and you 'll be sent claim form BW 1 to be completed in order to receive the book of orders to cash in for the widow 's allowance . |
| 6 | I have n't read either , but I think it is smart of HarperCollins to cash in on the classic revival vogue . |
| 7 | We would like to ask everyone in the Secondary Schools of Edinburgh to join in by encouraging as many students and teachers as possible to travel to school by bicycle that day . |
| 8 | When the band is removed from the machine there will be two ends of yarn to sew in for each buttonhole . |
| 9 | It is characteristic of Eliot to move in After Strange Gods from the savage notion of taboo , which he sees as having decayed in our time so that it has become ‘ used … in an exclusively derogatory sense ’ , to the Christian notion of ‘ heresy ’ as being vital to the interpretation of the modern world and to the health of the ( mainly Christian-based ) ‘ tradition ’ . |
| 10 | I mean , what we 're trying to do in the visual arts is to spend what limited money we have to produce a better situation for the visual artist and for the public who gets pleasure and enlightenment from visual arts than exists at the moment , so rather than just prop up the status quo , which is what is would be very easy to do if one just kept the pot boiling so to speak by giving a few grants to artists here and sitting at the centre of a spider 's web in Tunbridge Wells waiting for applications to come in to us and then responding . |
| 11 | Too much for Thérèse to take in at one go . |
| 12 | I drove via Barking to call in on Duncan the Drunken before the traffic built up , but his garage was locked and that meant calling at the house . |
| 13 | But it does carry a corollary which is fundamental : namely , that for democracy to give in to terrorism is to undermine its own deepest foundation . |
| 14 | With impressive ease he lifted Lucy carefully into the back of his car , and gestured abruptly for Virginia to get in with her . |
| 15 | ‘ Again , being something so totally new and different , it took a while for people to fall in with it , ’ Shaun explained , ‘ but we 've built up a very strong client base in Doncaster and the district . |
| 16 | Living in Little Rock with Miss Little Rock by Jack Butler will come out as a paperback original from Abacus in November to tie in with the anniversary of the US election — Bill Clinton has ‘ an offstage part ’ . |
| 17 | Hawke , whose visit was scheduled to take place in October to link in with the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Harare , expressed concern over the slow pace of reform . |
| 18 | And this Mr he was , he used to c he well he was collec calling f with Mr and he kept calling with me the same so I used to order my bulk in October to come in for Christmas goods . |
| 19 | In 1922 Parma became the last city in Italy to give in to Mussolini , and then only after violent fighting Oltre Torrente . |
| 20 | He walked to Hause Point twice a day and apart from that … he wrote one or two letters and delighted her father by franking one of his ; he waited for him to get a full free day so that they could go char fishing ; he declined all invitations and although he was irreproachably welcoming when Mr Skelton and his daughter made a surprise detour on one of their visits up the valley from Lorton to call in at the Fish , Mary thought that she could tell that he was happier to see them depart than he had been to see them arrive . |
| 21 | GREEN ON RED issue their China single , ‘ Little Things ’ , on March 11 and play three dates in London to tie in with its release . |
| 22 | In order to fall in with Stock Exchange requirements , Harvard introduced a wretched task for dealers , viz. the filling in of client profile cards . |
| 23 | In order to focus in on |
| 24 | ‘ I 've never recommended an induced birth to a pregnant woman merely in order to fit in with my golfing schedule , ’ Matt said . |
| 25 | Underlining the absurdity of Ireland 's proportional representation system — and make no mistake about it , if we had a proportional system in Britain , it would n't be that nice Paddy Ashdown holding the balance of power , it would more likely be the Reverend Ian Paisley and a couple of Welsh Nationalists — the issue of whether or not Cable & Wireless Plc can buy a stake in Telecom Eireann could bring the coalition government down : Fianna Fail realises that in order to bring in outside investment into the debt-strapped state phone company and increase the lamentable penetration of just 31 phone lines per 100 people , there is little alternative to privatising the company outright or at least bringing an outside investor , but Dick Spring , deputy prime minister and leader of the Labour Party , minority partner in the coalition , issued a statement saying that any privatisation ‘ would represent a breach of the programme of government . ’ |
| 26 | And in order to get in to that state of mind one does not have to be a complete lifelong fanatic , one only has to be completely absorbed for the moment by a particular cause , and that kind of absorption is of course something which good causes often do seem to demand . |
| 27 | But he was also occupying space behind the defenders , making it difficult for attackers to get in on passes . ’ |
| 28 | for love to walk in before closing time . |
| 29 | And you need n't be going just to America to cash in on the two dollar £ . |
| 30 | One possible answer to this question is that in practice firms may apply a rule-of-thumb pricing method and then use a trial-and-error technique over time to close in on the price and output combination which achieves the chosen objective . |