Example sentences of "in on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chairman of the Governors asked me was there a precedent in a flowing her to come into the interviews , and I said ‘ No , the precedent has already been set and that she was n't in on the other appointments . ’ |
| 2 | The canoes had to be carried across and put in on the other side of the dam , then we were given , mini lesson on the art of canoeing in swift water . |
| 3 | Way back in 1957 I had talked my boss into allowing me to learn to fly helicopters with the British European Airways Helicopter Unit at Gatwick and in 1960 I sat in on the first ground school course BOAC conducted for their senior captains converting to the first Boeing 707s . |
| 4 | The feet should be kept in the straps until sheeting in on the new tack , thereby keeping the board on its banked course throughout the crucial rig change . |
| 5 | Australia , put in on the new surface , struggled : both openers played on , and with Border collecting his second duck of the series , the home side slumped to 81 for 6 before the Victorians , Jones and Hughes , steered them to the relative prosperity of 145 all out . |
| 6 | And you need n't be going just to America to cash in on the two dollar £ . |
| 7 | Well yeah , I 've had a come for one day , pay for a day and hope I can sneak in on the two day . |
| 8 | They vied with each other to fill me in on the gruesome details . |
| 9 | Altogether appropriately and ingloriously , the frame ended with the Barometer 's in-off the black , the ball lasering in on the middle pocket at a preposterous angle . |
| 10 | Twelve other works by Matisse were offered — all trying to cash in on the much-hyped exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art — but only ‘ La plage rouge ’ , an estate picture at Sotheby 's soared , selling to a European collector at $1.25 million . |
| 11 | It had to be in on the 7th October and we came back the beginning of September , so it was a bit of a rush , and that 's really one of my feelings about it — I sat down and wrote it off the top of my head and not an awful lot is very considered . |
| 12 | Robert had the strong impression that they viewed unwanted spectators in the same spirit in which the ancient Greeks received people barging in on the Eleusinian mysteries . |
| 13 | It is recognised that a lot of people who might once have bought homes in the West Country have been flocking to France in recent years to cash in on the predicted property boom . |
| 14 | Leeman plugged away with constant strikes and both his colleagues joined in on the 17th end when continued Brackley accuracy brought the game to a premature conclusion . |
| 15 | He referred to the policy of separate development as ‘ apart-hate ’ in his first few letters , until somebody must have clued him in on the correct spelling . |
| 16 | If the quality of bottom-up information was good , the algorithm could quickly home in on the correct sequence of words . |
| 17 | After combining with Gary Millard at a short corner , May lifted a high cross over a crowded goalmouth and Steve Harris stormed in on the far post to hit a great first-time shot into the opposite corner . |
| 18 | Their acquiescence was to be encouraged by a campaign of information and by mobilising convinced peasants to persuade recalcitrant ones , but nothing could stop the tractors from moving in on the appointed day . |
| 19 | did he ever explain to you what the urgency of having to have the article in on the following Saturday was ? , did he ev , did he ever tell you anything ? |
| 20 | Fill the number in on the remaining circle on your game card . |
| 21 | As the excluded social forces grew in political strength , so they pressed in on the established constitution in ways which eventually caused it to buckle so that it came to be more in line with their views as to how things should be . |
| 22 | ‘ If we do not act then thousands more will come floating in on the early spring tides , maybe tens of thousands , even hundreds , and they will bring chaos and suffering on a scale far larger than anything we have seen so far , ’ he warned . |
| 23 | Other potential candidates , who were remaining loyal to Ted but who it was known would come in on the second ballot if Ted were defeated , were quietly being accused of cowardice by the Neave camp . |
| 24 | Charles remembered from working on The Strutters with him that George had always had an approximate approach to the text , relying , as did so many television actors , on a sort of paraphrase of the speeches which homed in on the right cue . |
| 25 | Sometimes they homed in on the right conclusion with remarkable speed ; sometimes they missed the point altogether . |
| 26 | Neil Jenkins switches from outside-half to centre to allow Adrian Davies to reclaim the number ten jersey and Ian Jones comes in on the right wing for only his second tour outing . |
| 27 | It became known that we were perilously short of hay because the haytiming on our pastures had been very poor that summer and it was impossible to bring enough in on the horse-drawn sledge on the few occasions we were able to get out . |
| 28 | Iain filled me in on the essential details while I was devouring that gargantuan breakfast . |
| 29 | The forward screen zoomed in on the slight figure of the target . |
| 30 | More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage . |