Example sentences of "in [prep] a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also understand that Basildon has erm got the same fate , so you know , it looks as if were in for a campaign there . |
| 2 | " I think it would be safer to keep him in for a bit longer . " |
| 3 | ‘ It 's probably only one of the local kids sneaking in for a look around , ’ Jessamy tried to reassure herself . |
| 4 | ‘ I had a cartilage operation three and a half years ago , and I went in for a tackle just before Christmas and damaged it again . |
| 5 | You 're in for a treat today Barry . |
| 6 | She 's in for a surprise though . |
| 7 | So they kept him in for a cat instead , but Jessie wanted a , then Jessie , she could 've just love a fluffy white , so . |
| 8 | I have n't had an evening in for a week now . |
| 9 | But the attitude of women content to stay in their middle-level comfort zones came in for a lot too — not only from a male chief executive who had seen one of his recruits retreat from the fast track , but from senior female executives as well who felt women ‘ should take their share of responsibility for low applications for senior jobs . ’ |
| 10 | In for a penny in for a pound ! |
| 11 | There were the inevitable late-night nutters ringing in after a beer too many , but many of the questions revolved around the evolution of humans . |
| 12 | Mike Power and Clive Thornton pointed him in the right direction and sent him in like a terrier down a rabbit hole . |
| 13 | So if you find lots of things to say about the others , you 're still in with a chance here . |
| 14 | He should be in with a party quite soon . ’ |
| 15 | The cool of the garden greeted you as you went in with a breath as welcome as that of the north wind at the top of a house during the season of akhet . |
| 16 | We hardly need to ask where this faith and belief came from , pouring in from a source previously untapped . |
| 17 | The rest of us saw the year in in a hut halfway down the Greenstone valley ; the warden brewed her own beer , and brought us generous supplies of it ! |
| 18 | Leaving aside those equity partners who , exceptionally , are never obliged to put cash into the firm , as mentioned in Chapter 4 , the choice lies between : ( 1 ) seeking capital contributions when the new partner joins the firm , he borrowing the amount required as necessary ; or ( 2 ) allowing the new member of the firm to buy his way in over a period out of his profit share , appropriate restrictions on his drawings being imposed as " security " for the agreed payments . |
| 19 | ‘ Tony was thinking of packing it in over a month ago but I told him to go away and talk it over with his family first . |
| 20 | I think the army thought they were going in to a situation where they could they could help , they saw themselves if you like as the referees er as a neutral party in between two sides . |
| 21 | I PULLED in to a diner about five miles short of Waldron and took aboard some fried ham and a couple of eggs sunny side up . |
| 22 | What Nicky discovered is that responding to God is an act of submission — of giving in to a force much more powerful than our own . |
| 23 | ‘ There 's a special word in Russian for someone who moves in on a household indefinitely and has the right to complain about the arrangements , ’ he said , ‘ and I 'm it . ’ |
| 24 | Social problems are crowding in on a city where the body-count for murders rose from a record 1,905 in 1989 to a new record of more than 2,200 in 1990 . |
| 25 | But you did n't get in till a quarter past . |
| 26 | Having booked herself in at a hotel where she was well known , she returned to the hospital and sat with her daughter throughout most of the evening . |
| 27 | Paradoxically , ‘ people 's capitalism ’ has been ushered in at a time when the long-term trend towards a greater equality in wealth may have been reversed , and in a manner that has firmly excluded the poorest from acquiring capital assets themselves . |
| 28 | They 've seen language labs , which are great , more or less mould away for lack of resources to keep them in working order , and they see micros coming in at a time when everything else is being cut . |
| 29 | For ages he had been meaning to call in at a place down by the Elephant and Castle where they sold gramophone parts , but it was not until this morning that he had finally got around to it . |
| 30 | A copy of the catalogue of this exhibition was sent in by a reader recently and it is quite mind-blowing to read what a wealth of aircraft and engines were on display : |