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 . |