Example sentences of "[vb infin] in a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could you bring in a couple of ashtrays when you come in love ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The French police may bring in a suspect for interrogation under the process of garde à vue . |
| 4 | They need it to finance new projects and which they ultimately hope those projects will bring in a profit on the capital employed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The assumption was that she would bring in a number of new people whose loyalty she could count on . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Do you actually fail the year if you do n't hand in a piece of work ? |
| 11 | Please , said a friend of this journal , egged on I suspect by a green-fingered two-year-old son , will you put in a word for the worm ? |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm not God , but I 'll put in a word for you , ’ Mr Lambert said quietly , pushing her behind him . |
| 13 | He is a man of position , and would put in a word for you . ’ |
| 14 | Perhaps I 'll put in a word for you sometime . ’ |
| 15 | Er so if you look at their smoking erm people can fill in a kind of smoking chart in which you look at that . |
| 16 | Advertisements are placed in the press , and potential purchasers are invited to telephone or fill in a coupon for further details . |