Example sentences of "i [verb] in [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 It 's easier for you to experiment to see how it works than for me to go in for a detailed but boring explanation .
2 One of my other SCOTTISH OFFICE contacts has asked me to go in for a sandwich lunch on Wednesday ( 25th ) , which is kind .
3 ‘ Does Faye … or Dr Greene … want me to go in to the hospital ? ’
4 Young Mrs M. looked shocked at the thought , so she waited outside , while I sprinted in for a quick glimpse at Bishop Stock 's former domain .
5 The only other fictional world I lived in with the same intensity was that of Louisa M. Alcott .
6 Like a dutiful citizen , I checked in with the Usher and he looked at his clipboard and said there would be about a fifteen-minute wait , so why did n't I take a seat ?
7 It was the first time , too , that I 'd been in a classroom with girls , and I got in with a bad bunch of women .
8 That 's basically when I got in with a guy in Memphis and we started Fernwood Records , and I got interested in the engineering side of it .
9 In the end , I got in through a hole in the side , but it was n't easy .
10 I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops .
11 ‘ I came to wake you , and I got in through the bathroom , which you forgot to lock . ’
12 I got in through the back gate without being challenged .
13 When I got in from the airport — yesterday , give or take a week — the flat felt lightly dishevelled , hurriedly lived-in , as if the cleaning-lady 's efforts had been briskly cancelled or mussed .
14 Until I moved in to the Rectory at Seend , I lived briefly at the Bell Inn , St Edith 's Marsh , Bromham , near Devizes .
15 I moved in to the front room where the disco had moved on to heavier metal ( New Model Army , I think — a band to watch despite their fans ) but still nobody was dancing .
16 At four and a half thousand pound of sales we start to pay extra fift in fact at four thousand pound we start but it 's only a small bonus so I home in on the bigger one .
17 I charged in like a bull .
18 When I saw the next auberge coming up , I drew in to the side of the road , put on my raincoat , and walked along to it .
19 I thought you said there 'd be no problem if I came in on a six-month permit ? ’
20 I came in with a bad knee and it just started getting worse , ’ the 13th-seeded Lendl said .
21 So I came in with an American-made guitar ( the T-60 ) in a case that retailed for 350 dollars at a time when a Les Paul was 1,000 dollars and a Stratocaster over 800 .
22 So I came in with an American-made guitar ( the T-60 ) in a case that retailed for 350 dollars at a time when a Les Paul was 1,000 dollars and a Stratocaster over 800 .
23 I had n't intended to speak on the external affairs section , but the discussion had widened so much that I came in with the attached remarks .
24 I came in for a lot of criticism but I know in my heart that the good things I did there were very conveniently swept under the carpet at the time . ’
25 I came in for a lot of adulation during my racing days — groupies .
26 I could relive it every time I came in through the front door .
27 There was a layer of grey-blue smoke in the room at about shoulder level , and a big wave in it , probably produced by me as I came in through the double doors of the back porch .
28 I came in through the door . ’
29 Finally I came in as a ‘ check ’ knitter , making the garment to the written instructions to see that there were no errors in them .
30 I came in as a young teacher , enthusiastic , full of new ideas but you soon find that the old attitudes rub off on you , and so you end up thinking , ‘ Oh , why am I doing this ?
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