Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lanky girl with a moody look walked in , strolled self-consciously over to the table and took a tangerine from a bowl . |
| 2 | The trick is to keep as many buttercups as you can while giving people a pleasant place to live in . |
| 3 | Official Hungary is not a pleasant place to live in , say the statisticians : GDP fell by 5% in 1990 after a decade of near-stagnation . |
| 4 | We welcome busy people to our home , and we give them a pleasant place to work in . ’ |
| 5 | Looked a right state going in I tell you . |
| 6 | A little money came in from The Character of Completeness , and he took Dinah out for supper in an hotel one Sunday , when she was not working . |
| 7 | Its very upsetting in more ways than one and an awkward time for a change of priests so Fr John will want just a little time to settle in and feel at home . |
| 8 | Several bombs have gone off in Latvia ; the locals think these were planted to give the army a possible excuse to move in . |
| 9 | You 've got a total income coming in , er a total amount of benefit there of a hundred and three pounds thirty for this family . |
| 10 | There was a narrow staircase leading in , two lavatories , and laughable electrics . |
| 11 | The reader in men and masculinity from Bradford University conjured up images for me of a muscular man walking in with a few four-packs of larger under his arms ready to address BASW delegates . |
| 12 | Got a bloody assignment to give in and I forgot I lost the bloody address ! |
| 13 | The door opened behind them and a junior officer came in . |
| 14 | Simultaneously , calls are growing for the introduction of a new rouble backed by gold , akin to the Chervonets , a monetary unit brought in by Lenin in 1922 as part of his Economic Policy which permitted a measure of private enterprise . |
| 15 | At one of our constituency surgeries , a retired widow came in to see us concerning the seventeen pounds extra which she would have to pay extra er to cover the other non-payments . |
| 16 | Again she felt overwhelmed with fatigue , but sly , lecherous images slunk into her mind , like a guilty dog sneaking in after a roll in something bad . |
| 17 | Under warranty I have had two replacement gearboxes , a clutch assembly and a complete transmission change in under 5,000 miles , due to a rattle , seemingly in the gearbox when running light . |
| 18 | Russell turned to Dexter with a look of surprise and irritation , as if he were a complete stranger butting in on a private conversation — which indeed was just how the sergeant felt . |
| 19 | It was compiled by the Rev Frank Goodridge , who was for some thirty years Chaplain Superintendent of the Royal Association of the Deaf ( RAD ) , a regional charity operating in and around London and Oxford . |
| 20 | As a slim quoit goes in . |
| 21 | Heating water etc. to cope with large quantities of laundry made for a periodic need to bring in extra labour over that maintained in the household . |
| 22 | Having publicly committed themselves to extending legislation to protect residents in small private residential care homes , the Government left it to a Back-Bench Member to bring in a Bill , and they have done the same thing again . |
| 23 | It was the Daughters of the American Revolution , with a few Minutemen thrown in . |
| 24 | A few labourers drifted in , muttered good-day and threw back Poire William , as if it were purely medicinal . |
| 25 | It would help us to plan for the future if you would be so kind as to take a few minutes to fill in this questionnaire . |
| 26 | And this really was the basis therefore of the first films , they were really demonstrations that pictures could move , and this was sufficient for people to pay a few pence to come in erm and look at the films . |
| 27 | Above his head , George saw the monitor black out , and then a few words faded in . |
| 28 | We could see the army post now and the shuffling sentries and a few jeeps passing in and out of the gate . |
| 29 | He said it 's a couple of cocks and a few leeks chucked in . |
| 30 | One minute she was enjoying it — oh , with a few protests thrown in , like she did n't know me well enough , she should n't be doing it , and so on — nothing serious . |