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

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1 If there was in operation a good system to prevent alien matter entering the lemonade then someone who worked there must have been very negligent if alien matter got in despite the system .
2 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 .
3 They could not open the door , so they climbed down from the roof and got in through the window .
4 I got in through the back gate without being challenged .
5 ‘ I came to wake you , and I got in through the bathroom , which you forgot to lock . ’
6 Somebody 'd broke in , got in through the bedroom winder .
7 The DHAC and NILP supporters sought to get back into the chamber ; finding the doors locked , they got in through the mayor 's parlour and were joined in the gallery by Alderman Hegarty and Councillor Friel .
8 Even the Prime Minister , Stanley Baldwin , got in on the act , speculating upon ‘ the enormous power which the film is developing for propaganda purposes , and the danger to which we in this country and our Empire subject ourselves if we allow that method of propaganda to be entirely in the hands of foreign countries . ’
9 Stephen Pullan and Iain Pyman both gave further evidence of the strength of Sand Moor by upstaging clubmate Cage with 68s , while Stephen Burnell ( Brickendon Grange ) and Stoneham 's Alan Mew got in on the act by matching the exacting par of 69 .
10 Every accusation was thrown at the team , even Tunisia got in on the act .
11 Second row Paul Warwick got in on the act and full-back David Rowledge stretched the lead to 27–11 with a penalty to add to his earlier conversions .
12 However , this was before the astronomers , notably Professor Alexander Thom , got in on the act .
13 After the home club and Southend took the top places , Colchester Joggers got in on the act with the team bronze , a first for the club over this distance .
14 By the time Adidas and Umbro got in on the act in the late-Seventies , a shirt could be carrying up to 40 little advertisements for the manufacturers , less than subtly integrated into the stripes .
15 Even their parents got in on the act , when the Mercedes hired to take them to the reception blew up .
16 The F–104 and T–33 also got in on the act , all are now based at Oshkosh .
17 Later European governments got in on the act and set about invading and colonizing large chunks of the globe .
18 Visitors Centre assistant information officer got in on the act when she bravely volunteered for a Harris Hawk to land on her arm .
19 Now when the Chancellor in the budget said that he would help the poor he stopped short , there were no copper bottomed no copper bottom guarantee and then later on we had Michael Portillo got in on the act .
20 Even the Granada announcer got in on the act .
21 Yesterday the Scottish Landowners ' Federation also got in on the act , claiming that the quota sale had confirmed fears about value .
22 So they got in on the scene and I seen young men that was walking the streets that had nowt to do put a football kit on with G M B written across the front turn out and become super human beings , you never seen nowt like it , they were so pleased to associate with like something like that .
23 Stepping out of the stables , she opened the half-door of the Lagonda and got in on the driver 's side .
24 The Welsh international Dean Saunders also got in on the hat-trick act as Derby County overturned a 2-1 deficit against Cambridge United with a 5-0 victory to leave them 6-2 overall winners .
25 After just two days on the market , the software group has shot up from 70p to 113p — great news for the institutions who got in on the ground floor .
26 However some water got in at the front .
27 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 .
28 ‘ Someone got in from the sea-wall .
29 In the middle of the night one of Kiku 's cats got in among the dogs and , when Burun got up to see what was causing the commotion , he found Suragai trying to save the animal .
30 But today there was the picnic , and who could tell what would happen once the four of them got in amongst the pine coverts of Ham Park .
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