Example sentences of "[vb pp] in to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of it , just before Myeloski had given in to the rough flight conditions , Duncan had come to realize how sharp the policeman was , how through his individual approach he had put together clues that most others would have missed . |
| 2 | This beggar had come in to the fitting shop , corner at the back corner , where he should n't have been . |
| 3 | MRS LEONA ‘ Queen Meanie ’ Helmsley , the self-styled Hotel Queen who failed to pay her million-dollar tax bill , yesterday booked in to the meagre , but free-of-charge , accommodation of an American jail cell . |
| 4 | She never presumed on her friendship with Eve by expecting to be let in to the inner sanctum . |
| 5 | That overlooks the protection that is built in to the dampened banding system . |
| 6 | So it 's automatically built in to the first life assured , but it is an option for the second if they want it . |
| 7 | The ‘ subjective meaning ’ of what the woodsman or marksman is doing is built in to the basic description or interpretation of the facts . |
| 8 | She had moved across the courtyard , flagstone by flagstone , to cheat the shadow ; now she was boxed in to the last corner of light . |
| 9 | He was getting on a bit , transferred in to the Mounted . |
| 10 | In addition , many other categories of workers in the formal and informal sectors in all three worlds have been progressively drawn in to the global capitalist system by the simple expedient of severely restricting and in more and more cases absolutely destroying their prospects for selfsufficiency in the provision of food , shelter and other ‘ necessities ’ of life . |
| 11 | And when , after lunch , she came downstairs in her new outfit , bought from Selfridge 's last week with the money which J. D. O'Connor had paid her for her articles , and with her next two articles in her bag , ready to be handed in to the great man himself before she returned to the rectory to pick up Rose Bailey , whose time off did not begin until four-thirty , both Dr Neil and Matey thought that she looked enchanting . |
| 12 | RECRUITS were bused in to the strike-hit Timex factory in Dundee yesterday , replacements for some of the 300 workers sacked during the dispute . |
| 13 | She had risen this morning with the intention of going into town and meandering among the shops , perhaps treating herself to a new bonnet , or buying Cissie those pretty boots she had so admired some days ago when the two of them had walked up and down Ainsworth Street , browsing in all the shop-windows ; afterwards , Beth might have called in to the delightful tea rooms at the comer of the boulevard . |
| 14 | The drawing suggests how a sector of resources has been ignored and is not linked in to the over-all plan . |
| 15 | She 'd just walked in to the nearest doorway and spilled the whole thing to a complete stranger . |
| 16 | The function of the weaving brushes is to push the yarn into the correct position so that it is laid in to the knitted fabric . |
| 17 | The Free Miners of the Forest of Dean were brought in to the general election campaign today , with a warning that their livelihoods could be ruined by imports of cheap foreign coal . |
| 18 | ‘ I expect to come out of these games with good results , ’ said Atkinson , before warning about hidden pitfalls in the long run in to the finishing line . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been tuned in to the local station , ’ he said shortly . |
| 20 | The fact that visiting supporters were allowed in to the same terracing , even though distinctly segregated , was a constant source of irritation to many Oxford fans , and it was often pointed to as an explanation for the occurrence of ‘ bovver ’ . |
| 21 | One of the hypotheses I was considering was that during REM sleep ( and therefore during REM sleep dreams ) the entire memory system is accessible — none of the inhibitions present during wakeful life are active , and new memories can be fitted in to the appropriate cognitive structures during REM sleep . |
| 22 | Do not turn up with an extra child to be fitted in to the same appointment . |
| 23 | Perhaps the papers must be examined twice by two different examiners in different parts of the country ; the marks must be sent in to the central body by a certain date ; there may be not only scores of examination papers but hundreds , each of them containing the attempts of several questions . |