Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] in [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wright battled back into the senior side and scored in the Mersey derby defeat at Everton — but only after filling in for injured Steve Nicol and David Burrows . |
| 2 | Racecourse officials and race starter Capt Keith Brown could also face heavy fines after coming in for stiff criticism . |
| 3 | Aintree race course officials and National starter , Capt Keith Brown , could also face heavy fines after coming in for stiff criticism . |
| 4 | After shipping in on local sailing schooners , 200 workers and piles of materials , work began on filling swamps . |
| 5 | Israel hopes to extract the maximum from giving in to American pressure — applied by the withholding of aircraft identification codes — not to join in the war . |
| 6 | He will have other reasons , quite apart from any strategy of the noble lie , for falling in with certain familiar practices that he might be tempted , at first look , to discard . |
| 7 | In New York and Boston businessmen and women can get business travel advice and tips on how to keep travelling costs down by tuning in to daily business travel programmes on local radio stations . |