Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm you had a statement of Barbara 's , if it was in there , it was planned so that you crew can work harder erm although you filled in the bonus question well , the there was a tend dangerous tendency for you be sucked in to go into the bonus and I think you did well to say yeah well we 'd better walk along to that so you held out which was nice because if I had if you had n't tackled that you might have been shown the door once you 'd gone through that . |
| 2 | While the so-called ‘ superminis ’ — cars like the Peugeot 205 and the new Ford Fiesta — grow larger and more expensive , the Eastern bloc car makers have quietly crept in to capitalise on the market for more affordable transport . |
| 3 | ‘ Let me invite you to dinner in an hour , ’ said George , ‘ and ’ — this was addressed to Mrs Robinson , who had crept in to stand in the doorway and hear the end of the story , and now stepped forward to play a part — ‘ please , let us borrow your daughter for the evening so that we four can be a company . |
| 4 | ‘ He could , of course , from the son 's own appearance , have deduced that the father must be at least in his late sixties or seventies and he could , of course , have called in to talk to the father personally when he drove round to have a look at the property . |
| 5 | the complexity of science , which renders forging a direct causal link between corporate practice and the death , injury , or economic loss of employees , consumers , and the general public , very difficult to prove ‘ beyond a reasonable doubt ’ , particularly when those ‘ experts ’ called in to testify to the relationship add so many qualifications and possibilities that almost everything appears possible but nothing certain . |
| 6 | MI6 , Scotland Yard and the FBI had been called in to hunt for the shadowy Surrey-born spy . |
| 7 | A team of British scientists have been called in to help save the city of Venice from flooding . |
| 8 | A great wedge of MacIans had driven in to cut off the Macleans ' attacking force ; the few men left fighting by the ships had neither time nor numbers to relaunch them . |
| 9 | French masons were brought in to work on the glorified hunting lodge of Falkland in Fife until it came to resemble a French Renaissance palace in miniature , with the courtyard 's south range richly decorated with Scots thistles , French fleurs-de-lis and pictorial medallions . |
| 10 | Firemen wearing breathing apparatus were sent in to deal with the fire at Hedley-on-the-Hill , Northumberland . |