Example sentences of "[vb pp] in to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The artist was one of the so called Bevin boys , who were drafted in to work as miners during the last war . |
| 2 | The 43-year-old millionaire has been brought in to shake up Central Office . |
| 3 | A sole practitioner , Mark Ledger , was brought in to head up the Salisbury office , which Ms Harris had set up prior to the merger ; the new firm set up an insolvency department under Geoffrey Morgan ; and 18 months later another sole practitioner , Philip Parmenter , was brought in to set up another office in Witney , Oxfordshire . |
| 4 | Many retailing organizations said they gave fixed-term contracts to seasonal workers brought in to cope with the Christmas peak . |
| 5 | The German airline Lufthansa , as a long-standing sponsor of joint-projects with the Goethe Institute , was brought in to talk about sponsorship . |
| 6 | Large numbers of soldiers and police were brought in to seal off the entire area . |
| 7 | If the nearly-invisible Mrs Shephard is the John Major of parliamentary women — the glamorous Mrs Bottomley , 44 , is more like an old-fashioned ambitious networker , closely plugged in to politics by virtue of both her birth and her marriage . |
| 8 | In spite of being a small-town solicitor , Mr Hann is tuned in to information on many of the world 's financial deals . |