Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] in [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as much to disprove some of their absurd assumptions as to help you prove your own theories that I agreed to come in on this project . |
| 2 | ‘ Aye , except he pointed out that if she was new to the job and she tried to muzzle in around that quarter , the others would soon make short shrift of her . |
| 3 | Raiders tried to break in to this cottage in the early hours , but they were spotted by vigilant neighbours when security lights came on . |
| 4 | Raiders tried to break in to this cottage in the early hours , but they were spotted by vigilant neighbours when security lights came on . |
| 5 | Two guys tried to break in at three in the morning , and they woke the neighbours . ’ |
| 6 | The GDR 's borders are now open , and the Government in Bonn poised to jump in with massive economic support for the process of political reform as it develops . |
| 7 | The Sergeant came rushing in from next door . |
| 8 | That 's if we 'd gone in on fixed price on scaled fee |
| 9 | ‘ We found him in bed in his study , his face turned to the window , where the sun came streaming in through flowering plants … |
| 10 | Reports began to come in of successful strikes on other vehicles . |
| 11 | The premonitions began to pour in about Grand National winners , storm warnings , earthquakes and other disasters . |
| 12 | We also began to tap in to those networks previously ignored — the farmers , the parish councillors , the professional middle classes . |
| 13 | At home he decided to go in for wholesale enclosures , encouraged his tenants to take long leases by reducing their rents , and instructed them in modern scientific methods . |
| 14 | Then offers started to come in from other amp and electronics companies , asking me if I wanted to branch off and do some design work for them , which I could see the advantages of — plus I wanted to have a life ! |
| 15 | A touch of deja vu started to creep in at this point . |
| 16 | If you knew about show-jumping , you had heard of Nutty McTavish , even seen her on television in replay when there was a lull in the senior event and the commentator decided to fill in with earlier happenings . |
| 17 | And that 's when we started putting in for annual wage increases . |
| 18 | ‘ Mr Gajdusek … ’ she promptly decided to get in with another of her interview questions , though she made the mistake of looking at him , and his raised-eyebrow glance at her stopped her . |
| 19 | on Tuesday I went get in till nine o'clock ! |
| 20 | But Elsie Birdsall and Lavinia Thwaites kept coming in with all kinds of things to try and get me going — home-made soups , arrowroot , custards — and finally I began to mend a little . |
| 21 | But the attempt to remove the deer failed in both forests , because fresh stock kept coming in from adjoining woods . |
| 22 | This undermined any pre-ordained police logic we might have employed to define them , so that pressures to produce a unidimensional model of ‘ polis — prig ’ were simply unable to be maintained , although we did home in on such facets as their long hair and frequently unwashed state to polarize them as binary ‘ animals ’ , in contrast to our human status . |
| 23 | ‘ But I did stand in for one of your girls at Jenkinsons last week — and I sold the suit I showed . ’ |
| 24 | Though Locke did go in for some experimental work , his main contribution to the ethos of the Society was to do what Bacon had quite failed to do . |
| 25 | yeah that 's lovely , we did put in for some in February , we have this one in the we have n't got a cover that one . |
| 26 | The peasants in the Roslavl' region did come in for some attention during 1922 , though supervision was at best paternalistic , sporadic , and myopic . |
| 27 | The builders said the work would take six weeks , so I planned to move in after this , at the end of July . |
| 28 | Was there ever a time when you had to go in for more drastic measures ? |
| 29 | But I just used to have this dream , of all these animals , and I had to go in with all these animals , it was actually full , crammed full of animals , that were all out to eat me , and , kill me , |
| 30 | Cos it 's an outdoor job , it 's a three shift system for those on the bottom , er early , morning and late , cos the eight hour day had come in at this time . |