Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] in [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were extremely grateful to the Government for stepping in with a £140 rebate because they saw their aunts , uncles , friends , cousins and others elsewhere in the country paying a great deal less . |
| 2 | ‘ We found Prune Island , as Palm was known in those days , after calling in for a spot of sight-seeing . |
| 3 | Intruders at the Bull and Dog pub in Greatham , near Hartlepool , stole £920 from the vending and gaming machines after getting in through a groundfloor window . |
| 4 | The gang bundled the family into a bedroom after bursting in to a house on Coventry 's ‘ millionaires ’ row ’ in Kenilworth Road . |
| 5 | Associate Members should get ground tickets for Wimbledon as a right instead of going in to a ballot . |
| 6 | Clint Boon moves to the front of the bus to chat with Mr Palmer , who has some '60s rock tales to tell , and the Oldham Organaire sits in respectful thrall as the driver tells of riding in on a motorbike from the mid-west in the mid-'60s to make San Francisco his home . |
| 7 | ‘ Fans just go straight home instead of coming in for a drink . |
| 8 | What Nicky discovered is that responding to God is an act of submission — of giving in to a force much more powerful than our own . |
| 9 | so , if , if , if they 're all four of them coming er and she says about going in for a meal I shall say oh well if you feel like it go and do that then and come for your tea I mean it 's just putting them round table is n't it ? |
| 10 | Avoid bouncing up and down because an élite performer will simply wait until you are moving upwards before driving in with a strong attack . |
| 11 | Before the members of the cast separated to check out of their lodgings on that last night of the provincial tour before moving in for a run at a West End theatre they got together for a few drinks on stage . |
| 12 | There the caterpillar first cuts all the leaf veins leading back to the main stalk before settling in for a dinner which it hopes can not then be communicated to the neighbouring leaves . |
| 13 | Then John Williams , head of Chrysalis A&R , makes a few crap jokes about the wonderful marketing campaign the EC have been doing , plastering the blue'n'yellow LP cover all over Europe , before weighing in with a Mike Smash-style ‘ cue the music ’ and actually playing three ‘ cuts ’ from the album . |
| 14 | Which megastar was about to beamed in from a Hollywood poolside to give a transatlantic Tory thumbs up ? |
| 15 | Jonadab and his two sons were just scraping their boots at the back door , prior to going in for a mug of tea . |
| 16 | So my father went over on the Monday evening and after such a a young man paid such interest in the garden and paying so much compliments , Well you ca n't go home without coming in for a cup of tea . |
| 17 | You get used to stopping in after a while |
| 18 | Another is to reduce the proportion of dark background area relative to the subject , either by shifting to a more suitable setting or by moving in to a bigger close-up so that the dark background is reduced in size . |
| 19 | You may be able to accommodate this bending by tying in to a longish pergola or trellis on a wall or fence . |
| 20 | You are all alone ; no one will interfere ; in a college no one helps your studies ( although your best friend may do the opposite and interfere by dropping in for a chat ) . |
| 21 | By homing in on a national hero , Clinton will be keeping one of his early election promises to pick the best people — regardless of their party affiliaton . |
| 22 | ‘ And you show it by putting in for a transfer behind my back , ’ he roared , his face as black as thunder . |
| 23 | Excluded , naturally , from the better parties , some of them would attempt to get on terms with their social superiors by bursting in with a search warrant in one hand and evidence in another , which they would produce from nowhere like cabaret artists plucking doves out of the air . |