Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] in [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But we did n't want to go in with a heavy commitment at first ; we took a PC and wrote our own very simple software to deal with incoming orders . ’ |
| 2 | We 'll also want to sit in on the cochon gris 's ceremony tonight , if there is one . ’ |
| 3 | I should need to go in on the eleventh to clear up I expect . |
| 4 | This will remove any possibility of bloom in the first year , but it will concentrate the plant 's mind on good long stems which will need tying in to a support like a pergola or arch to show next year 's bloom to best advantage . |
| 5 | He never wrote entirely admiring reviews : ‘ It 's the essence of a book never to be perfect , ’ he said , ‘ so its writer must expect to come in for a little criticism . ’ |
| 6 | This is an eminently Basque town and the one I would choose to stay in of the several alternatives along this coast ; it is more intimate than Bayonne , less pompous than Biarritz and livelier than Hendaye . |
| 7 | I 'd like to go in for a bit , but there 's loads of people in there and I ai n't got no washing to do . |
| 8 | She said politely , ‘ Would you like to come in for a last drink ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Would you like to come in for a … cup of coffee or something ? ’ |
| 10 | It was Terry Rickards saying that he would like to drop in for a chat with Mr Dalgliesh if it would n't be too much bother and would nine be convenient ? |
| 11 | Older women may hesitate to join in with the young , feeling that they may have to ape their manners to be accepted by them . |
| 12 | ‘ So if you believe that share prices look dangerously high after three or four years , you can decide to lock in to the rate you have picked . |
| 13 | Juan Sosa , former Panamanian ambassador in Washington , said that , if the US had been ‘ more active ’ , several battalions of wavering Panamanian troops would have joined in on the rebel side . |
| 14 | Eddie was staring at her with eyes as hard as granite but all she said was , ‘ You 'll have to go in at the front door . |
| 15 | Well you 'll have to come in on the way ho |
| 16 | I 'll have booked in for a course in Bristol starting in September — an art course , no one cares what art students look like — or drama maybe . |
| 17 | A tidy desk and behind it a man who might have come in on the Saturday afternoon for extra work . |
| 18 | ‘ She might have come in with a boyfriend . |
| 19 | There was nothing to worry about : if there had been , the fuzz would have come in with a warrant . |
| 20 | It is hard to disappoint someone who may have come in as a last port of call when all other channels to sort out their problems seem closed . |
| 21 | Ronnie must have come in through the yard door without her knowing … |
| 22 | She sat at the table and painstakingly wrote down the sums of money that should have come in for the work already done . |
| 23 | Otherwise whoever it was would probably have come in from the corridor . |
| 24 | She had not been allowed make-up ; if she had , at that age , developed any idea of herself as having rights simply by virtue of being a pretty girl , it must have crept in between the covers of some acceptable book . |
| 25 | However , BIG BEAT , 9-2 with Hills and Ladbrokes , could well have crept in on a very lenient mark . |
| 26 | We may have zeroed in on the difference , but so what ? |
| 27 | ‘ There is no way we would have got in under a Labour government . ’ |
| 28 | I found a small but perfectly-formed hailstone on my knee , which must have got in through the air vent . |
| 29 | If he had been walking out with any other girl in service in the town they could have stayed in on a wet night and talked by the kitchen range , but with the Hogans hovering around he had to bring Patsy out into the rain . |
| 30 | 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 . |