Example sentences of "they go in [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | A few years ago , they went in to Europe with the deliberate aim of sabotaging any tough ban on cigarette advertising , and any insistance on tough medical warnings of the kind that appear today . |
2 | It was still early when they went in to Gamages and headed for Ladies ' Gowns . |
3 | It was a disastrous night for Andy Roxburgh 's men , despite the fact that they went in at half-time all square at 1-1 . |
4 | ‘ After they gave up twelve-furrow work — when the machines came in — they went in for flat-work , wide stetches , even on the heaviest land , of anything up to eighteen yards . |
5 | They went in for warmth . |
6 | But typewriters we had problems with because , if they went in for repair , you never got them back from the Ordinance Core , and so at one place in Tunbridge Wells we handed a typewriter in and because the army were allowed to buy greaseproof paper , we bought a lot of greaseproof paper which came in the package of a new typewriter . |
7 | They went in for half-time one up and within minutes of coming out were two up … with top scorer Craig Maskell raising the roof … |
8 | They went in behind Sir George , who waved his huge cone of light around the dark , cramped , circular space , illuminating a semi-circular bay window , a roof carved with veined arches and mock-mediaeval ivy-leaves , felt-textured with dust , a box-bed with curtains still hanging , showing a dull red under their pall of particles , a fantastically carved black wooden desk , covered with beading and scrolls , and bunches of grapes and pomegranates and lilies , something that might have been either a low chair or a prie-dieu , heaps of cloth , an old trunk , two band boxes , a sudden row of staring tiny white faces , one , two , three , propped against a pillow . |