Example sentences of "and [verb] in the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was when they first changed over from seamed stockings to seamless ones and started laying off the skilled knitters and bringing in the women . |
| 2 | And bring in the outriders . ’ |
| 3 | No more than forty-nine names on a paper , or the Deputy-Lieutenants will infer a gathering of illegal size and bring in the soldiers under the Riot Act . |
| 4 | Faced with the mounting cost of a war against the American colonies , the coalition government in Westminster had instituted a punitive and highly unpopular tax by the Stamp Act of October 1783 : all registrations of baptisms , marriages and burials would be charged at 3d. a time — and so there was every incentive for local clergy , working on 10 per cent commission , to get around the parish and bring in the strays . |
| 5 | Patching the cracks and filling in the potholes falls to the County Council everywhere except trunk roads and motorways . |
| 6 | The flight panel was designed in the days when American firms used to write the names of the instruments on bits of paper , put them in a hat , draw them out one-by-one and fill in the holes . |
| 7 | The ample panel ‘ was designed in the days when American firms used to write the name of the instruments on bits of paper , uput them in a hat , draw them out one-by-one and fill in the holes ’ . |
| 8 | 8 Copy the following into your book and fill in the blanks by looking for a pattern along each line . |
| 9 | 1 Draw the following table and fill in the gaps with YES or NO . |
| 10 | Now you can look at that and sort of chant it out to yourself and learn that as a table or learn it visually or vaguely remember some of it and fill in the gaps by going back , What happened when we tried when we dripped ac acid on a metal ? |
| 11 | Paradoxically , in some cases photocopies look better than the original because they help smooth out the jagged edges of curves and fill in the gaps between the dots to make the letters look more solid . |
| 12 | They form a general idea and fill in the details . |
| 13 | ‘ Draw on the canvas then and fill in the outlines with colour , ’ Max replied . |
| 14 | " On this occasion , the government suspended negotiations and brought in the troops . |