Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] [verb] in " in BNC.
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1 | Fig 62 Foot placement variables in the carve gybe : Aim : to make the back quarter of the inside rail dig in and grip . |
2 | To take just one example : people still grossly underestimate the size of the language 's vocabulary — the most widely quoted figure is half a million words or so — an estimate based on the total headwords found in either the OED or Webster 's Third New International , which each contains around that number . |
3 | Adding a line that works out the total amount paid in and the interest received at least puts it in perspective . |
4 | Here comes a brief history of the Korean war starting in about , yes , about ninety seconds on the Korean war erm North Korea invades South Korea and won . |
5 | Although this sounds dangerous they are perfectly safe and are by far , in my opinion , the nicest house to live in . |
6 | So er you know they 're making their bed er nice and feathery and yet they denying it us and then that 's where the erm the sore point comes in . |
7 | As the walls of the political world closed in on him , the old imperative of réserve — his instinctive aversion for being hemmed in — reasserted itself . |
8 | Occasionally the odd bed-spring goes in where it suits . |
9 | Every now and then , one of the tall waves thundering in from the open ocean carries within it a dark sinister presence . |
10 | Yet the dollar did not move strongly up again when the gloomier reality sank in . |
11 | As surely as if he could see them actually arriving , see them now , he pictured the stolen lorries driven in . |
12 | Its latent function was to ensure that the lower classes fitted in with the designs of their betters . |
13 | As the light of that winter day faded and the swirling fog closed in , the two friends took shelter in a platelayer 's cabin at the northern end of the line 's long curve . |
14 | In the following year the contest was three-cornered , with engineering cadets from the Technical College joining in , but School was again victorious . |
15 | She was at least head first in this world when the auxiliary nurse rushed in and caught the rest of her . |
16 | The oral phase occurs in about the first year of a child 's life . |
17 | Certainly his resignation ensures that he will be in the clear when the economic roof falls in — an event which many people now regard as virtually inevitable . |
18 | However , as the reality of the economic situation presses in on the government so it is inevitable that more sensible and pragmatic policies are adopted 2 or 3 years into office . |
19 | The two awards were seemingly an acknowledgement of the specific problems met in adequately resolving the problem of the two sites . |
20 | As the strange shape darts in , the whole audience jumps and gasps . |
21 | Elaine 's feelings are echoed by many women , and this is where the mobile phone comes in . |
22 | Vice versa , the proportion of the professional group living in grossly under-occupied housing is twice as great . |
23 | The Righteous Brothers popped in for a swifty , as did Twin Peaks star Sherilyn Fenn . |
24 | The Righteous Brothers popped in for a swifty , as did Twin Peaks star Sherilyn Fenn . |
25 | Nor is it possible to have a membrane with pores of just the right size to allow in needed substances from outside but not let essential substances escape , if only because the cell may need to retain some small molecules , and admit some larger ones . |
26 | ‘ And he 's the right man to go in and get the truth . ’ |
27 | We were perhaps selected by someone with a sense of humour who thought that we might be the right couple to bring in a Queen 's Speech which increases the penalties for mutiny in prisons . |
28 | It 's just a question of finding the right people to bring in and form a fashion-design group . |
29 | But much of Operation Gemini is about surveilance , observing known criminals and waiting for the right time to move in and make arrests , of which there have been more than a hundred and twenty since the operation started four weeks ago . |
30 | The lexicon and the clustering allusions in the second half of the poem confer upon it a gravity , a sadness not wholly predictable from the opening , which seems to herald a piece on the theme of gathering rosebuds , drinking wine , and making the best of the good times before the infernal walls close in . |