Example sentences of "[v-ing] in [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the occupied tables contained a man and woman and child , tucking in to great slabs of meat . |
| 2 | Rapturous as the circumstances of its conception may have been , the genesis as a whole could only , in retrospect , seem an extraordinarily painful business , as he intimated to Rohde shortly after the book was out : " No one has any idea how such a book comes into being : the trouble and torment it is to keep oneself as clear as this of other ideas pressing in from all sides ; the courage needed to conceive of it and the honesty needed to carry it through ; and above all , perhaps , my tremendous task vis-à-vis Wagner , which has certainly been the cause of many heavy clouds in my heart " the task of being independent even here , of taking up an , as it were , alienated stance . " |
| 3 | If Candy realised the game Adam was playing , she would go storming in with all guns blazing , never stopping to think of the possible consequences , all her protective instincts roused in defence of her best friend . |
| 4 | The doctor had opened the door suddenly , was walking in with two nurses , directing them to either side of the bed as the heart machine flashed and beeped alarmingly . |
| 5 | Frick idled his way along the corridor , looking in through various windows . |
| 6 | In Scotland the central valley was filling in with massive expansions particularly around Glasgow , while growth around Edinburgh , Dundee and Aberdeen maintained a long-standing pattern . |
| 7 | They are tailing unmarked police cars to stake outs and listening in on secret frequencies . |
| 8 | ‘ Listening in to private conversations is bad enough . |
| 9 | He gets all over the pitch , and I could see him fitting in in all kinds of areas , he used to be good for Spurs even when the defence came under pressure , and he 'd tackle back , becoming the ball winner . |
| 10 | J. D. Hooker collected plants on expeditions to the southern polar regions and to the Himalayas , and soon plants ( in Wardian cases ) were flooding in from all parts of the world . |
| 11 | Offers of help have been pouring in from all quarters , with the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum , Elizabeth Esteve-Coll putting her conservation department at the ready to assist , and the Secretary of State for National Heritage , Peter Brooke , conceded that his department would be responsible for financing the repair bill . |
| 12 | He cleverly made use of the lowering fuel weight and bedding in of new tyres , to outwit his British challengers , Hawthorn and Collins . |
| 13 | We never seem to be going in for young players from lower divisions anymore . |
| 14 | Or they 're pun they 're pouring money into the countryside now forty five million , he 's going in for these developments er to create a better countryside just announced this week . |
| 15 | Just another form of the takeaway service some blacks are going in for these days . |
| 16 | going in at eighteen pounds for two . |
| 17 | It 's going in at thirty pounds the lot , thirty pounds . |
| 18 | They 're going in at thirty pounds the lot . |
| 19 | It 's going in at thirty pounds the lot . |
| 20 | They 're going in at fifty pounds the lot , at fifty pounds . |
| 21 | It 's going in at sixteen pounds . |
| 22 | They 're going in at thirteen pounds . |
| 23 | It 's going in at ninety pounds the lot . |
| 24 | Are you all finished now , it 's going in at forty pounds the lot . |
| 25 | It 's going in at ten pounds for it . |
| 26 | It 's going in at ten pounds . |
| 27 | Are you going in at ten pounds and away . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've seen tackles going in from other sides that would without question produce a booking for a United player . ’ |
| 29 | What happened , people should have been paying in for ten years were suddenly taking out for ten years and these huge enormous sums and obviously the surplus which our members had helped to build up er and provide through the years and we 've got seventy-five year olds on you know , extremely low pensions hardly making ends meet , and there were vast sums of money being given away to the employees , that the employers took a contribution holiday and so they were n't paying into the fund either you know , and all the profits of B T as you all know were soaring and partially because of the use of the pension funds and this has greatly obviously erm upset our members and we feel very strongly about it . |
| 30 | The focal point of the town centre is the church , with old buildings threaded by narrow alleyways hemming in from all sides . |