Example sentences of "in and [vb pp] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Encourage the visitors to ask questions , if they are newcomers to the neighbourhood conversation about whether they have settled in and met the neighbours and general chat about shops , buses , doctors and dentists again show that you are human and interested in them as people . |
| 2 | Wordsworth had lived in and loved the Lakes for sixty years , and later Ruskin , the great architectural influence of the nineteenth century , built a house on Lake Coniston . |
| 3 | I just assumed he was there to get a tooth filled or something , but Andy must have broken in and switched the records then . ’ |
| 4 | Finally his double-barrelled family had stepped in and bought the prodigal a mega-mineral cure and a penthouse flat . |
| 5 | So she had stayed in and got the dinner prepared early , she could just shove it in the oven and it would look after itself . |
| 6 | But he added : ‘ The players who 've enjoyed the biggest success abroad have been those who 've blended in and learned the language . ’ |
| 7 | They managed to raise three thousand and now a businessman , who does n't want to be named , has stepped in and paid the rest . |
| 8 | Dr Watson has worked in and watched the region for 40 years , and his opinions carry great weight . |
| 9 | He had moved in and taken the stuffiness out of the business , slaughtering its ‘ professional ’ pretensions , and bringing it on to the High Street long before the present new wave of trendy estate agents . |
| 10 | I thought , I 'm for it now , but all she said when she 'd bustled in and taken the coal from the cart , was , 'Ere yar . |