Example sentences of "and [verb] in [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see when Steve used to erm come down to Selby I mean there were , there were occasions when I used to go into the college with him and sit in on some of his interviews . |
| 2 | Both are no doubt splendid residences in their own ways , but the fact is they are different and lived in by different people . |
| 3 | They were found at the bottom of drawers , in filing cabinets , and stuffed in amongst other papers . |
| 4 | John stood 6ft tall and weighed in at 13½ stone , so he was ideally equipped for his onerous responsibilities although , like many big men , he was a quiet and serious fellow — a Sunday School teacher who frequently declined to play on Good Fridays or Christmas Day . |
| 5 | I feel very uncomfortable therefore , to sit in a room full of members , sitting here proposing to add five percent to the limit for members allowances , simply because we 've been unable to control our own behaviour , and to come in within that , I think it 's a very poor example , and it 's an example that I 'm not prepared to set . |
| 6 | In 1875 Francis Seymour Haden , FRCS , advocated by means of three letters to The Times a disintegrating coffin ‘ … of some lighter permeable material , such as wicker or lattice-work , open at the top , and filled in with any fragrant herbaceous matters that happened to be most readily obtainable . |
| 7 | Two days before the concert , Fernie Quinn , the only capable oboist in the vicinity , was taken ill , at which point Lady Barbirolli , who was an oboe player of some renown in Britain , offered to take the part and filled in with considerable distinction . |
| 8 | They are tailing unmarked police cars to stake outs and listening in on secret frequencies . |
| 9 | I never ran marathons , but gradually increased my distance , starting with a 30-mile race , then the Isle of Man 40 on the TT course , where I did well , and the following week I ran from Edinburgh to Glasgow , which is about 50 miles and came in about second or third . ’ |
| 10 | Pepe tapped on the door and came in with two glasses of what looked like rum and cola . |
| 11 | However , three LCA crews saw a Very light above the mist and came in with three motor gun boat escorts . |
| 12 | It would be reached by a railway tunnel from the beach and sealed in with concrete when full ( see diagram ) . |
| 13 | The Prime Minister has , like Eden before him , become both bogged down and boxed in by one big issue at the expense of the general election mandate secured only the previous year . |
| 14 | To diehards , Lloyd George was " the " Welsh Walpole " and friend of MacDonald who would peddle any opinion and give in to any Labour leader if it would help him to stay in office " . |
| 15 | He cleverly made use of the lowering fuel weight and bedding in of new tyres , to outwit his British challengers , Hawthorn and Collins . |
| 16 | She paused , then took courage in both hands and walked in with deceptive boldness . |
| 17 | The adapted child is the part that has learnt how to adapt and fit in with other people — it learns how to please and get approval , and how to manipulate and submit . |
| 18 | Chairman , could I just mention to the Committee , on Shropshire child care links , erm , the County Council of course , is also the registration body that erm , registers childminders and day care , and erm , while obviously this is very much to be supported and ties in with Social Services ' own requirements to promote child care , it should not be seen , and we should perhaps , Bruce make a , we can have discussions with , we should be careful to endorse , the giving of this money does n't necessarily imply or endorse the standards of the people on their books , who may be people that the County Council in another arm , are investigating and in some cases , taking action to close down . |
| 19 | Given these disturbing facts , the phasing out of nuclear power and phasing in of renewable technologies makes sense . |
| 20 | But today his solicitor Tony Hughes told Milton Keynes magistrates the youth had changed his ways after leaving council care and moving in with foster parents . |
| 21 | ‘ One paper , by Paige ( 1967 ) , for example , quotes Lenin 's ‘ who does what to whom ’ , and Mao 's ‘ war without bloodshed ’ , reminds us of the more familiar formulations of Lasswell ( 1936 ) — ‘ who gets what , when , how ’ — , Easton ( 1953 ) — ‘ the authoritative allocation of values ’ — , Levy ( 1952 ) — ‘ the allocation of power and responsibility ’ , and Snyder ( 1958 ) — ‘ the making of authoritative social decisions ’ , and throws in for good measure a definition by a Japanese political scientist , Masao Maruyama — ‘ the organization of control by man over man ’ . |
| 22 | We were greeted with metaxa , the local brandy , and spent a wonderful evening sampling local cuisine and wines , watching and joining in with talented local dancers who wore full Cretan costume . |
| 23 | Thereafter it monitors the quality of the incoming electrical supply , smoothing out peaks and troughs and cutting in for real if the power cuts out completely . |
| 24 | I left school and fell in with some gamines ( street urchins ) . |
| 25 | Oh they get and go in without that one ? |
| 26 | and go in for five |
| 27 | We also learnt that one can integrate the interests of motorists by using bypasses to take through traffic away , and go in for traffic-calming measures which work . |
| 28 | We Zed-bombed the barriers and went in with shielded skimmers . |
| 29 | In Cambridge she quickly established herself as a cult figure of mysterious portent : she claimed to be in love with her brother , whom nobody had ever seen , and went in for gnomic utterances and baroque clutter . |
| 30 | Er apparently they phone her up or summat and ask her if she 'll go and stand in for other people and she turned round and says if I ca n't have this school I 'm not doing any . |