Example sentences of "in [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , er , so hopefully Michelle will get this next Tracey 's position , and obviously sort of in in the meantime and providing her position comes up they are bringing in a Telesales County Secretary , which was n't gon na come in for about a year cos they wanted to sort of like , trial it , but now they 've decided if that 's what they want the position to do erm it 'll probably happen in the next two months and they said for me to go for it from our division , so I said right , okay . |
| 2 | The first time you use your Steamatic in the bathroom you could be in for quite a surprise . |
| 3 | The company came in for quite a bit of stick with their new version of the Escort and if the Mondeo had not been well received they could have been in real trouble . |
| 4 | They have come in for quite a bit of stick , particularly when they 've been dealing with rape cases . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , those officials in the finance ministry and the Bank of Japan who still equate a strong yen with a strong economy may be in for quite a shock . |
| 6 | ‘ She 'll be in for quite a shock on her wedding night , poor little kid . ’ |
| 7 | They have n't been in for quite a while . |
| 8 | Eh she was away I think when , or she 'd gone out when called in upon here a fortnight ago . |
| 9 | Oh , yes , because rings come in to quite a bit of wear do n't they ? |
| 10 | At least in what other poorer women were telling me , when it came to after work and weekends the men were quite the women were prepared to look after the children and felt it was their role to look after the children while the man was at work ; when the man came back he continued to feel that the woman should look after the children erm for the rest of the time , and the idea of a shared child care arrangement did not operate in at least a number of the families that I talked to and had been one of the causes of the breakdown of the marriage and one of the precipitating factors in the man physically abusing the woman . |
| 11 | Start filling them in at least a week before you embark on the diet , so that you have a ‘ base-line ’ from which to judge the effect of the diet . |