Example sentences of "in [prep] [adj] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were hemmed in on all sides by thick heavy stone , but still the wind managed to snake in through innumerable cracks and crannies . |
| 2 | The billions flow in through 28 taxes and countless smaller exactions ; they flow out through 19 mayoral agencies and scores of less exalted offices . |
| 3 | On July 13 Itzhak Rabin , chair of the Israel Labour Party since February , was sworn in as Prime Minister and announced the composition of his Cabinet . |
| 4 | In March Suharto was sworn in as acting President and in December 1967 Sukarno was placed under house arrest in Bogor . |
| 5 | The gaol was at its busiest during the 1840s , when labourers on the Buckingham railway line were continually being hauled in for petty crime and drunkeness ; a spell in one of the cells was guaranteed to sober them up . |
| 6 | Er apparently they phone her up or summat and ask her if she 'll go and stand in for other people and she turned round and says if I ca n't have this school I 'm not doing any . |
| 7 | Each coat is liberally applied , allowed to soak in for five minutes and then carefully mopped dry — on no account leave liquid oil on the surface to dry . |
| 8 | But the 28-year-old Heinzer hung in for second place and another Austrian veteran , Peter Wirnsberger , for third . |
| 9 | While I sympathize with the caller from West Calder , I feel we pay poll tax as well to cover all these things but when I bought my house , my solicitor had me in for two hours and went through all my obligations under the title deeds part of was , that I had to pay one three hundredths of keeping the open areas clean and tidy plus grass cutting . |
| 10 | I was n't afraid of losing my boyfriend while I was in prison , because I 've seen people who 've been in for two years and their boyfriends still come and see them . |
| 11 | Erm , and it 's been quickly Christianized with just two little lectures at the beginning of two chapters to Christianize so it was popped in for new testament and it 's the nearest we can get to teaching . |
| 12 | You go in for three days and you have a big dose of drugs . |
| 13 | The List came in for copious criticism and there were a number of insinuations that the List — which had first appeared on a piece of lavender-coloured notepaper — was largely the work of Lady Falkender . |
| 14 | He might be brought in for periodic boosters or to help when the problem is in the degree of difficulty and intensity not experienced before . |
| 15 | In Cambridge she quickly established herself as a cult figure of mysterious portent : she claimed to be in love with her brother , whom nobody had ever seen , and went in for gnomic utterances and baroque clutter . |
| 16 | So anyway I put in for this job and and there were people who who ought to have got it before me , er for instance er there was a councillor at er at , Tom , did you know Tom ? |
| 17 | Erm the third one is we 've got a small amount of money out of , think again it 's out of TEED and , but it 's N Y T E C have got hold of it and it 's to do with further development of the Careers Service Tech Partnership , but it 's only a few thousand , it 's a very small n amount compared , I mean the bid that we 've put in for this Standards and Indicators is more like sort of thirty thousand . |
| 18 | I 've worked in for 30 years and lots of us have worked for over 25 years and we do know that they are bringing in trainees in on higher salaries than ourselves , which obviously is quite upsetting when you 've worked a long time . |
| 19 | The police have come in for heavy criticism but Rosenthal 's following observation about distortion in behavioural science may be cited as an apologia for some police shortcomings : |
| 20 | So you were in for ten minutes and rushed them out and out again then |
| 21 | so he said I 've had to , they 'd have to keep him in for ten days or more you know |
| 22 | Practice was largely limited to horses by the peculiar constitution of the College , whereby subscribers of the richer sort sent their animals in for free treatment and received drugs at half-price . |
| 23 | This time the hospital kept him in for several weeks and his condition deteriorated until the Sunday morning the phone rang at 6.30 am and the words ‘ We think you should come to the hospital as soon as you can . ’ |
| 24 | Drop in for some caffeine and culture ! |
| 25 | You had to get the head in between young fingers and just pluck the head … |
| 26 | this bloke and his bird , right , and then ahead would n't like it clears up a bit in , in the Blackwall tunnel but it 's still like sort of five yards in between each car and he 's just like moving from lane to lane without signalling or anything |
| 27 | And of course you can get the whole admixture in between total withdrawal and total aggression . |
| 28 | I think there 's , there 's quite a difference , erm , in between physical dependency and psychological dependency |
| 29 | The early running was made by the 100–1 outsider City Scandal , who after two furlongs conceded the lead to Shikampur , with Pinza in about sixth place and Aureole unable to take up a handy position . |
| 30 | Most important was the fact that personal circumstances and creative needs of each man had impelled him to be , in a phrase which Eliot applies to Lawrence in After Strange Gods but which applies equally well to himself , a ‘ restless seeker for myths ’ . |