Example sentences of "in [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm you had a statement of Barbara 's , if it was in there , it was planned so that you crew can work harder erm although you filled in the bonus question well , the there was a tend dangerous tendency for you be sucked in to go into the bonus and I think you did well to say yeah well we 'd better walk along to that so you held out which was nice because if I had if you had n't tackled that you might have been shown the door once you 'd gone through that . |
| 2 | I had a very good man in to see to the heating and lighting , and the whole conversion was done professionally . |
| 3 | Very few erm Continental countries would consider entrusting the administration of justice erm to erm people who took an afternoon or a day off work every week or so and went in to sit on the Bench . |
| 4 | She cut through the heady memories and concentrated her mind on what Steve was saying while she watched a superb glossy white yacht coming in to berth at the jetty not fifty metres from the window of the restaurant . |
| 5 | Those in a correlated condition experienced the light only after a correct response in the presence of one of the cues ( and thus , as the task was learned , increasingly often along with this cue ) ; those in an uncorrelated condition received the light after 50 per cent of rewarded responses whether these were in made in the presence of the tone or of the clicker . |
| 6 | ‘ Let me invite you to dinner in an hour , ’ said George , ‘ and ’ — this was addressed to Mrs Robinson , who had crept in to stand in the doorway and hear the end of the story , and now stepped forward to play a part — ‘ please , let us borrow your daughter for the evening so that we four can be a company . |
| 7 | What does the environment you work in say about the company and its attitude towards employees ? |
| 8 | ‘ He could , of course , from the son 's own appearance , have deduced that the father must be at least in his late sixties or seventies and he could , of course , have called in to talk to the father personally when he drove round to have a look at the property . |
| 9 | How much to put in depends on the population of fish , including other species , for you can not prevent roach , perch , tench and carp etc. , from feeding on your offerings . |
| 10 | And secondly a lot of er a number of consultants want to leave their bonuses in to accrue during the year . |
| 11 | in to look at the job did you ? |
| 12 | The C.C. said that they called him in to look at the body . |
| 13 | A team of British scientists have been called in to help save the city of Venice from flooding . |
| 14 | Some of the unskilled youngsters drafted in to help with the decorating did not . |
| 15 | This is as true in any detective novel as it is in scientific research or investigative journalism , and in supposing that the test-tube fusion idea had been overlooked for half a century we are already repeating a media ‘ factoid ’ that is incorrect . |
| 16 | Firemen wearing breathing apparatus were sent in to deal with the fire at Hedley-on-the-Hill , Northumberland . |
| 17 | the complexity of science , which renders forging a direct causal link between corporate practice and the death , injury , or economic loss of employees , consumers , and the general public , very difficult to prove ‘ beyond a reasonable doubt ’ , particularly when those ‘ experts ’ called in to testify to the relationship add so many qualifications and possibilities that almost everything appears possible but nothing certain . |
| 18 | Liartes brought his mount in to land on the turf a few yards away and dismounted casually . |
| 19 | A few days after that Norman Prince , the founder of the Lafayette , flying long and late in an attempt to avenge Rockwell , hit a high-tension cable as he came in to land in the dark . |
| 20 | A continuous series of 15mm ( ½in ) diameter holes is drilled into the wall near dpc level and a silicone resin fed in to soak into the brick or stonework . |
| 21 | After lunch , Faye had her nap , which had stretched to two hours now , as she was sleeping poorly at night , and after she woke she usually liked to have Belinda in to chat over the mid-afternoon snack . |
| 22 | There is also a health visitor who comes in to teach on the childcare course and to discuss any health problems , and a doctor who visits monthly to give inoculations and deal with any other aspects of health care . |
| 23 | I think if she went in to live in the back woods , you know , way beyond |
| 24 | While the so-called ‘ superminis ’ — cars like the Peugeot 205 and the new Ford Fiesta — grow larger and more expensive , the Eastern bloc car makers have quietly crept in to capitalise on the market for more affordable transport . |
| 25 | It was fairly clear that there was going to be some smuggling as well but , even allowing for the often-repeated story that other ships lay over the horizon and sent boats in to add to the stock on board the single ship , the net profits from the ship could hardly have been much more than twice those of the slave-trading . |
| 26 | Emma Thompson will continue her rise in Remains of the Day and Much Ado About Nothing . |
| 27 | Several joined in to complain about the tribute required by the deputy in Riba . |
| 28 | The sensitive lacquer which was subjected to UV light is washed away , leaving the artwork positive reproduced in etch-resist on the board . |
| 29 | There is no one else on the Tory Benches , so perhaps we should give them time to get someone in to act as the Minister 's runner . |
| 30 | Now erm that might come in come into the car . |