Example sentences of "[vb -s] in [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the scheme outlined by Talcott Parsons and Edward Shils in Towards a General Theory of Action ( 1951 ) . |
| 2 | If your candidate is going to research the level of pollution in a local river , he does n't stand on the bridge and look ; he either wades in to feel for junk or he goes in with a professional diver to find it . |
| 3 | Caird also goes in for a few unnecessary stunts , such as having two of the ladies of the town played by men in drag . |
| 4 | Everyone goes in for a little enhancement , one way or another . |
| 5 | When Eddie gets the brush off from his new female boss ( the very wonderful Robin Givens ) , director Reggie Hudlin cues up comic reversals ( she stands him up , drops in for a quick fuck , he bleats about commitment ) , which may not quite reflect the complexity of modern sex wars ( no mention of Aids here ) but are still funny . |
| 6 | Even Ivan Illich , though their opening sentence contains an echo of his ‘ the medical establishment has become a major threat to health ’ , is ignored in the text : he scrapes in with a mere single source reference . |
| 7 | My Boss says a man rings in with an upset stomach and you know either he means a hangover or else his brother managed to get him a ticket for Wembley . |
| 8 | As Steve Bevan , editor of Sales Promotion magazine says : ‘ Companies are now using sales promotion on a more strategic basis , ensuring it ties in with an overall brand strategy . |
| 9 | I never imagined myself doing anything but acting , ’ she says with a wide grin and then breaks in to a quick burst of singing : ‘ There 's no business like show business … ’ |
| 10 | With a pixel refresh rate of 320 million per second , SGI claims it can deliver the same amount of data to a screen in one second as appears in during a typical 30 second television advertisement . |
| 11 | She falls in with a tawdry crowd and finds her values jolted and sympathies unwillingly engaged . |
| 12 | One of the surprise contestants who have a chance to win £5,000 and a trip to Hollywood to take part in American Gladiators is Derek Collett from Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire who weighs in at a mere 11st 10lb . |
| 13 | Also looking at walking axes have been Grivel , who 've come up with the Air Tech , which weighs in at a gobsmacking 460g . |
| 14 | With every niche filled , the only option left is the update , and here Guinness have been steaming ahead yet again , the two most recent arrivals being the fifth edition of Billboard 's Book Of USA Top-40 Hits and the third edition of The Billboard Book Of Number One Hits , both bookshelf benders , the former boasting 674 pages while the latter weighs in at a hefty 844 . |
| 15 | ‘ Stockholm ’ ( current single , and , they tell me , the immediate pop antidote to ‘ It 's Not What You Know ’ 's wilful obscurity ) saunters in on a charming guitar line from the imposing Dolan ; ‘ Beatlemania ’ and ‘ I Lead On ’ allow Andy 's vocals to take centre stage . |
| 16 | As caries sets in at a weak point in the tooth 's enamel and spreads to rot the whole tooth , so an appeal to the crown could trigger the decay of local autonomy . |
| 17 | Institutionalism sets in after a few months , and active people slow down and soon learn not to complain . |
| 18 | Today it 's Joni Mitchell 's The Circle Game , from the album Ladies of the Canyon , and if the conversation pauses Andy steps in with a musical interlude . |
| 19 | We found that the wound margin moves in at a steady rate of 10–15μm per hour , and the wound is closed within 18 to 24 hours . |
| 20 | Following the intense intro of ‘ The Act We Act ’ , the sceptical ‘ A Good Idea ’ lunges in with a gripping bassline and a teasing stab of guitar . |
| 21 | The entry level 386SX with 2MB RAM comes in at a mere £499 . |
| 22 | As a stake in society comes in at a higher cost , the old certainties begin to wither . |
| 23 | When sh , Sarah comes in with a long skirt on he , he goes up |
| 24 | British Rail comes in for a fair bit of stick from travellers who would heartily support the loud speaker announcement heard by Philip White . |
| 25 | Power comes in via an external mains adaptor , but watch out — only the supplied adaptor will do the job . |
| 26 | Then it comes in like a tingling feeling . |