Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He came across this seed in Cumbria and said : ‘ I wonder if we ought to invest in a bit ? ’ . |
| 2 | To be fair there was a week when Mr Barnes spotted this inconsistency too and suggested that seeing as how we all wasted our tutor time ( WE wasted it — I like that ! ) we should bring in a board game next week and he 'd organise a sort of tournament . |
| 3 | He suggested that the jury should bring in a decision that would mean that ‘ in future , parents and doctors could make decisions on this awful problem without unidentified informers rushing off to the police . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm going to wait to see how some other injuries settle down before I decide whether I should bring in a replacement . ’ |
| 5 | In previous years the selection of the carnival queen had been organised by elimination contests in the town and surrounding villages , but 30 years ago the committee asked that young ladies should send in a copy of a recent photograph . |
| 6 | Marjorie , however , feels that she must put in an appearance downstairs , however token , before he leaves for work , and there is a sense in which Vic understands and approves of this gesture . |
| 7 | The French police may bring in a suspect for interrogation under the process of garde à vue . |
| 8 | Well I 'll chuck in a bit more , I 'll chuck in a little bit more pepper . |
| 9 | I might bring in a note tomorrow saying I 've got make an appointment |
| 10 | ‘ But I might look in a bit later . |
| 11 | If the training schedule of the Hearts players is not too strenuous then one or two might put in an surprise appearance ? |
| 12 | ‘ I was hoping you might put in an appearance . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm not God , but I 'll put in a word for you , ’ Mr Lambert said quietly , pushing her behind him . |
| 14 | Perhaps I 'll put in a word for you sometime . ’ |
| 15 | So in other words it 's about an introduction an expansion and an end Now as I 've said tomorrow I 'll fill in a bit more detail on those so if you leave some some gaps there between those three sections . |
| 16 | You might fill in a creation or save date , to pick out files either before or after that date . |
| 17 | And then we er we 'll talk in a bit more detail depending on which company you and I decide that er you know once we decide in fact that is for you . |
| 18 | ‘ It was like a collective , you could either buy the porn through the mail , or you could send in a tape of yourself and get plugged into the apparatus that way , ’ explains David James , a film professor at the University of Southern California , who has researched the phenomenon . |
| 19 | Others , like myself , who knew George , or like Geoff Tulloch , who thought they ought to put in an appearance , travelled by the special minibus hired for the occasion . |
| 20 | There was an hour yet before she need put in an appearance in the restaurant for the evening meal . |
| 21 | The assumption was that she would bring in a number of new people whose loyalty she could count on . |
| 22 | The tone of his detractors is modified , however , by those who fear that without Birt the right wing of the Conservative party would bring in a regime even less to their taste . |
| 23 | I would send in a note addressed to Mellowes . |
| 24 | He is a man of position , and would put in a word for you . ’ |
| 25 | What was certain was that she would put in an appearance that evening at Jeffrey Archer 's great party ; the one social event in the Brighton calendar which was quite definitely not to be missed . |
| 26 | Borrowing from the public is more or less finished , perhaps it is finished for our lifetime , but at any rate it has been finished for the last ten years or so ; you may get in a bit one year but you lose it again the next year . |
| 27 | They need it to finance new projects and which they ultimately hope those projects will bring in a profit on the capital employed . |
| 28 | Labour can not , on the one hand , criticise us for giving our system careful consideration and waiting until 1 April 1993 and , on the other hand , announce that they will bring in a scheme in 1992 with no system to back it up . |
| 29 | Araminta is fey , and Dermot is ‘ hopeless ’ , and their death is artistically right , and no one will bring in a verdict of wilful murder against you — although you have a strong motive to kill them . |
| 30 | In the case of respondents whose arguments will be simply that the judgment of the court below is correct for the reasons given , counsel for the respondent can send in a letter to that effect in lieu of a skeleton argument . |