Example sentences of "was [verb] [to-vb] in [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ken played Julius Caesar in a picture that , with no apologies , was intended to cash in on the fame of the Elizabeth Taylor Richard Burton fiasco of the previous year . |
| 2 | Some through passage is also noted , particularly in November , March and April , and one was seen to fly in from the sea at Selsey Bill on 1 May 1968 . |
| 3 | In the original DES document in which the proposals for the schools were outlined the overall aim was said to fit in with the Government 's aims set out in their document Better schools , ‘ to improve standards ’ being the key phrase . |
| 4 | I did n't know quite where or how or with whom but I was going to turn in at the Gendarmerie and take it from there . |
| 5 | Rosie was going to move in with me April–July as Mark has found a room in a really nice flat in St Stephens Street ( nr. ) from April , but she phoned last week to say she + Jonathan have bought a wee flat already ! |
| 6 | ‘ I would n't wear muddy hunting boots if I was going to climb in through a bedroom window and murder a lady , ’ said Ethel . |
| 7 | He turned down the lamp and wondered how he was going to get in without wakening her ; when suddenly she started up , crying out with despair , fighting to be free of the blankets . |
| 8 | Yeah well changes platforms of all these trains , anyway after a bit we decided that the Redditch train was going to come in before the train , so , er they did n't change it to say it was n't going to Redditch cos once when I was doing that they said to me , the lad was it , because it 's not to ready to change that time , you would n't matter , cos oh there 's people here waiting to go to Redditch , change it , so he said oh anyway it came , the twelve six came all the young folks going to you should of seen the number that had got off |
| 9 | It was a glorious day , warm and sunny with hardly a cloud in the sky , but by late afternoon a fresh breeze was beginning to blow in from the west . |
| 10 | BR 's corporate planning was reformed to fit in with the new structure by devolving responsibility for planning largely to the five businesses and by developing ‘ action plans ’ to commit lower level management to business objectives ( Heath 1984 : 221 ) . |
| 11 | And she would have to leave whatever she was doing to sit in with him while he briefed her on what he intended to do , and why . |
| 12 | Or , from the Viz diary of a made-up Hollywood stunt man : ‘ I was asked to stand in for Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon II , but I turned it down 'cos Patsy Kensit 's got tits like fried eggs . ’ |
| 13 | He admired them duly and was forced to join in with a chorus of auld lang syne downstairs . |
| 14 | That is also good news for John Collins , who was forced to fill in at left-back during Galloway 's injury and Mowbray 's suspension . |
| 15 | He was across the road and halfway back down Fleet Street before it occurred to him that they had been staring at him like that because they thought he was trying to push in at the head of the queue . |
| 16 | Obviously old Jim was trying to muscle in on Sam . |
| 17 | Or he was trying to get in through the one window in the house which was approachable from the tree side . |
| 18 | For an instant she was tempted to give in to him , to say she 'd forget the party . |
| 19 | Still , I was determined to cash in on my success and maintain a high profile at the ground . |
| 20 | ‘ He idolised the professional wrestlers he saw on television , and was determined to get in on action . ’ |
| 21 | He stopped , waiting for armed Twenty-fourthers to swarm out of every window , demanding to know why Robert was proposing to barge in on their most secret and important ceremony . |
| 22 | Worst still , she was planning to cash in on Ivor 's insurance policies . |
| 23 | They replaced their kitchen crockery with simple black and white octagonal glassware crockery and even the car was changed to fit in with the new image — their champagne-coloured Ford was replaced with a grey and red Peugeot . |