Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] in [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Western practices and ideas were modified to fit in with Japanese reality — though there were periods when ‘ Westernization ’ was very much the vogue . |
| 2 | Filmmakers were attempting to link in to contemporary realities . |
| 3 | You see , so these people were going to move in at the weekend so had to put a stop to that cos they had no authority to move in there until the solicitors try and get this thing sorted out . |
| 4 | The Whitby Gazette announced that there would be a high tide on Ascension Eve that year , and readers were invited to write in with their views on the subject . |
| 5 | Hundreds of funeral guests were beginning to filter in on foot from the outlying corners of the kingdom , bringing sacrificial fighting cocks , pigs and magnificently decked-out water-buffalo . |
| 6 | They were preparing to check in for a flight to Tokyo . |
| 7 | One or two offers of touring productions or guest star status in provincial reps came in , a sure sign that their managements were trying to cash in on the name of Michael Banks before it was completely forgotten . |
| 8 | Ken played Julius Caesar in a picture that , with no apologies , was intended to cash in on the fame of the Elizabeth Taylor Richard Burton fiasco of the previous year . |
| 9 | While still leafing through the statements he turned to Sara : ‘ We have a witness who claims to have seen you in Alexandra Road after eleven on Saturday night , and you may know that a woman was seen going in by the back door of this house at half-past . ’ |
| 10 | Some through passage is also noted , particularly in November , March and April , and one was seen to fly in from the sea at Selsey Bill on 1 May 1968 . |
| 11 | In the original DES document in which the proposals for the schools were outlined the overall aim was said to fit in with the Government 's aims set out in their document Better schools , ‘ to improve standards ’ being the key phrase . |
| 12 | I did n't know quite where or how or with whom but I was going to turn in at the Gendarmerie and take it from there . |
| 13 | Rosie was going to move in with me April–July as Mark has found a room in a really nice flat in St Stephens Street ( nr. ) from April , but she phoned last week to say she + Jonathan have bought a wee flat already ! |
| 14 | ‘ I would n't wear muddy hunting boots if I was going to climb in through a bedroom window and murder a lady , ’ said Ethel . |
| 15 | He turned down the lamp and wondered how he was going to get in without wakening her ; when suddenly she started up , crying out with despair , fighting to be free of the blankets . |
| 16 | Yeah well changes platforms of all these trains , anyway after a bit we decided that the Redditch train was going to come in before the train , so , er they did n't change it to say it was n't going to Redditch cos once when I was doing that they said to me , the lad was it , because it 's not to ready to change that time , you would n't matter , cos oh there 's people here waiting to go to Redditch , change it , so he said oh anyway it came , the twelve six came all the young folks going to you should of seen the number that had got off |
| 17 | It 's a surprise too that the school has survived , but when they were killing off all the grammar schools in this country and turning them into comprehensives and middle schools and sixth-form colleges and everyone was getting shoved in with everyone else . |
| 18 | Recipes for this " black tart stuff " as it was called appear in at least two cookery books of the second half of the seventeenth century . |
| 19 | It was a glorious day , warm and sunny with hardly a cloud in the sky , but by late afternoon a fresh breeze was beginning to blow in from the west . |
| 20 | BR 's corporate planning was reformed to fit in with the new structure by devolving responsibility for planning largely to the five businesses and by developing ‘ action plans ’ to commit lower level management to business objectives ( Heath 1984 : 221 ) . |
| 21 | And she would have to leave whatever she was doing to sit in with him while he briefed her on what he intended to do , and why . |
| 22 | Or , from the Viz diary of a made-up Hollywood stunt man : ‘ I was asked to stand in for Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon II , but I turned it down 'cos Patsy Kensit 's got tits like fried eggs . ’ |
| 23 | She was sitting turned in against his chest , and he rode with one arm around her , supporting her . |
| 24 | He admired them duly and was forced to join in with a chorus of auld lang syne downstairs . |
| 25 | That is also good news for John Collins , who was forced to fill in at left-back during Galloway 's injury and Mowbray 's suspension . |
| 26 | He was across the road and halfway back down Fleet Street before it occurred to him that they had been staring at him like that because they thought he was trying to push in at the head of the queue . |
| 27 | Obviously old Jim was trying to muscle in on Sam . |
| 28 | Or he was trying to get in through the one window in the house which was approachable from the tree side . |
| 29 | For an instant she was tempted to give in to him , to say she 'd forget the party . |
| 30 | Still , I was determined to cash in on my success and maintain a high profile at the ground . |