Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] in [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then , from what I hear , that 's overrun with bairns ; they 've stopped gathering them in from the streets . |
| 2 | DRAWING THEM IN ON THE WIRRAL |
| 3 | He 's fitting you in at the end of all his appointments . ’ |
| 4 | Back at the office , Schellenberg changed into a light grey flannel suit in the bathroom , speaking through the other door to Ilse Huber as he dressed , filling her in on the whole business . |
| 5 | She told him about the latest developments from Zurich while dressing the wound , filling him in on the backgrounds of Hendrique and Milchan as well as relaying Philpott 's instructions . |
| 6 | Finish off the sides by turning them in to the wrong side on the creaselines , with the interlining . |
| 7 | ‘ He was calling you in as the ultimate specialist . |
| 8 | Well , now that I 've tracked you down , perhaps you would n't mind letting me in on the key to all this mystery . |
| 9 | He made the mistake of letting me in on the ground floor when he was offering a Pissarro . |
| 10 | I 'm letting you in on the latest fashion and all you can do is accuse me of lying . |
| 11 | The Graduate Enterprise Programme can change that by helping you jump each hurdle , rather than letting you in for the high jump . |
| 12 | ‘ Good morning , Mrs Wooldridge , ’ said Mrs Deacon , letting her in by the back door . |
| 13 | He dropped the note-book in the mud just where the water came and stamped on it , grinding it in to the soft mess of leaves . |
| 14 | Erm I , I think I might have missed Adam 's point and I was going back to whether the south was more efficient than the north because just tying it in with the seminar we had on managerial farms , were n't there more in the north than in the south ? |
| 15 | ‘ You are all the same , ’ I had said — reducing her from an individual to a stereotype , lumping her in with the worst of the cherry berets . |
| 16 | They were in the bedroom and he was tucking her in under the quilt , stroking her forehead , pushing back the damp strands of blonde hair where her tears had soaked them . |
| 17 | She had him by the hand by then , and was drawing him in to the hearth , for the early November mist was on his shoulders , and his face looked thin and cold . |
| 18 | Probably because it was a way of roping him in for the future , Malcolm invited him down to a few rehearsals . |
| 19 | We realise that chucking them in at the deep end is not satisfactory . |
| 20 | You can move icons into this group simply by dragging them in with the mouse . |
| 21 | ‘ For dropping you in at the deep end , before you 'd had a chance to get your bearings … ’ |
| 22 | If it had not been for Elizabeth taking her in off the streets and giving her a home , then Tilly 's own life would have been empty . |
| 23 | Some types of air-breathing fish known as polypterids breathed air not by sucking it in through the mouth and forcing the lung-sac to expand , but by a reptilian-like muscular movement ( which is also how mammals breathe ) . |
| 24 | When you look down , when you are seeing it in on the television pictures , you look down from an aerial view . |
| 25 | I grinned then , I recall , and brought the stunter down fast and acute across the weeds and the water , the sand and the surf , scudding it in across the wind to jerk and zoom just before it hit the girl herself where she sat on the dune top holding and spasmodically jerking the string she held in her hand , connected to the sky . |
| 26 | Select EDIT TEAM , and change COMPUTER ( top left of screen ) to your own name by placing the cursor over the first letter then typing it in on the keyboard . |
| 27 | ‘ We shall know whether they sink or swim by putting them in at the deep end , and I have every confidence that they will all do well . |
| 28 | Now then , I like the new look — ’ Sarella had had her hair cropped ‘ — and was thinking of putting you in for the ingénue , but I 'm having second thoughts . ’ |
| 29 | She was n't heavy and although I 'm no weight-training freak , I lifted her until her backside was balanced on the tailboard and then it was just a matter of rolling her in to the well of the truck , the back of her head making a satisfying thud as she landed . |
| 30 | Breathing it in through the nose , the mouth . |