Example sentences of "in [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , fifty 's gone already in backhanders to a couple of the girls at Central Records . |
| 2 | And Mum and Dad are going off on holiday on Saturday , so they wo n't be popping in to visit for a couple of weeks . ’ |
| 3 | This meant that Jocasta was unlikely to come bouncing out and invite her in to listen to a Mahler symphony on her record player . |
| 4 | I mean I suppose there is in all social work in a sense , that if you go in to look at a family and , and you 're trying to assess you know whether the children should be taken into care , well you 're exercising a a sort of statutory erm er sort of responsibility , and as far as the clients are concerned , er if you , like that can sort of get in the way of er er a more human sort of relationship if you see what I mean , because |
| 5 | If the carer moves in to look after a couple ( eg elderly parents ) on the death of one spouse the tenancy goes to the surviving spouse . |
| 6 | The arrival of bailiffs often results in fear and confusion … just a fortnight ago police reinforcements were called in to help with an eviction from a house in Brockworth . |
| 7 | His parachute was caught by turbulence as he came in to land on a school playing field . |
| 8 | The small jet came in to land with a rush at Marco Polo Airport and , brakes squealing a protest , taxied clear of the runway . |
| 9 | They came in to land in a snowscape , the lights along the thin ribbon of recently cleared runway coming into view and stretching out in front of them as the Seneca descended on its final approach . |
| 10 | There 's only myself and Adam , you know , barring Mrs Elswick as comes in to cook of an afternoon . ’ |
| 11 | A door at the end of the hall opened , and Arkhina came in attended by a serving woman . |
| 12 | She had just enough money left after selling up in Mexico to buy a small finca in Ibiza , where she settled in to survive on a war widow 's pension and the proceeds from her annual harvest of almonds . |
| 13 | Before I had completed a question about whether he would like to be Chancellor , MacGregor broke in to say with a smile , as he had to : ‘ But I am enjoying being at transport . |
| 14 | The last man in , John Bendall had already injured himself when we were fielding and he also came in to bat with a runner . |
| 15 | A woman suffered minor injuries when the car she was in collided with a van in Victoria Road , Consett , last night . |
| 16 | The federal army has been called in to act as a buffer in areas of high tension . |