Example sentences of "his [noun] in [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 William Clark put his resignation in on the day of the ceasefire .
2 The other team was the Levitt team with No 1 Libor Krejci , No 2 Prince Abdullah , who had flown his ponies in from the Argentine , and played extremely well , scoring several of the goals ; No 3 Marcelo Caset from the Argentine , and Lord Charles Beresford at back .
3 He is to bring the men under his command in from the west .
4 Once he had passed the southern limit of the fence , Angel One planned to angle his run in towards the highway .
5 Maxim had run into that before , on exercises , when he wanted to dig his troops in among the growing vegetables , and probably Hitler 's soldiers had been no more welcome .
6 He pushed his head in at the window " Are you the vet ? "
7 The busy sputter of a Vespa came rocking round the bulk of the house , and the young man of the custodian 's box put his head in at the open door , gave Charlotte a brief , blank glance , and asked briskly : ‘ Where is he ? ’
8 A man who 's never been afraid to stick his head in among the flying boots , Moran 's medical records are thicker — and gorier — than a short horror novel .
9 He 's an archetypal nice bloke who is the first to get his round in at the Blighty Bar , an after-hours drinking club which we establish on the steps of the hotel after we discover that Tokyo shuts at 10.30 .
10 Councillor has lived and worked all his life in with the exception of his war service in the army which was spent in the South of England , of which I will make mention later .
11 There was much talk in the coffee shops about the new film James Dean was working on , called Rebel Without a Cause ; Brando was stunning everyone with his performance in On the Waterfront .
12 He even takes his food in from the kitchen . ’
13 But he returned to Grenada to throw his lot in with the mostly light-skinned urban middle class to which he only half belonged .
14 He could throw his lot in with the Lord General , and perhaps become a governor of one of the colony worlds .
15 ‘ I 'm having it , ’ said Nutty , barging his way in to the dining-room .
16 Now , new offices were being built for it on the other side of the road , but they were not quite ready , and meantime , the new publisher from the East and his editors functioned in an atmosphere of such utter confusion that it is doubtful if an efficiency expert could even have fought his way in through the door .
17 Doddie Weir may have to impress at training today to force his way in among the forwards , who held a lineout session with assistant coach John Jeffrey at Happy Valley last night .
18 He was pulling back the calf 's head so the brown eyes rolled up and only the whites were showing , and opening its mouth by slipping his thumb in at the side .
19 The Minister should get his oar in with the Minister for Health who is carrying out a review in conjunction with the mental health tribunal .
20 And this bloke called Haigh that sent his clothes in to the model-maker so 's they would n't have the trouble of faking them .
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