Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tendencies exist in very many people to a greater extent than they are prepared to admit and sexual fantasy abounds with sado-masochistic components . |
| 2 | This distraction allowed the Wolverines to close in on the flanged skirts of the arena . |
| 3 | Their Managing Director , Europe , Niccolò Caderni , who was recruited from the banking world two years ago , left the company last month , and Phillips 's European offices will close as the contracts fall in . |
| 4 | They do n't want the experts to come in and advise because it is the experts that have let them down . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Until we get promotion , we wo n't get the crowds to bring in the money to get the top players . |
| 6 | When the fashion changed after the war , it was difficult for some older singers , just as it was for some of the stars of silent films when the talkies came in . |
| 7 | If not , what graphics format are the icons stored in ? |
| 8 | The solicitors moved in , volunteers answered phones , typed documents , and novices learnt to operate the computers and word-processors . |
| 9 | Between 1889 and 1910 fifty-eight clubs moved into new grounds , though there was often continuity of land use in the sense that , at least 35 out of the current league grounds were recreational or sporting grounds in some form before the clubs moved in ’ . |
| 10 | The Whips had a difficult job and were as usual a good body of men , but the accounts sent in to me showed me that each man in conducting this inquiry adopted a different emphasis according to his own character . |
| 11 | The initial capital was subscribed for by what Des O'Malley has called his ‘ golden circle of friends ’ and the institutions trapped in behind them . |
| 12 | I 'll let the bogies come in . |
| 13 | I 'll let the bogies come in . |
| 14 | Anna Adams had no illusions about the decline of Scarp , ‘ When the artists move in on a way of life , that way of life is picturesquely anachronistic and in decay ’ , but it seems that a taste for tragedy only augments the awareness of beauty . |
| 15 | Anna Adams had no illusions about the decline of Scarp , ‘ When the artists move in on a way of life , that way of life is picturesquely anachronistic and in decay ’ , but it seems that a taste for tragedy only augments the awareness of beauty . |
| 16 | Spectators standing on the balconies joined in , filling the air with stones . |
| 17 | Official Soviet anti-semitism , which has undoubtedly been observable since the foundation of the state of Israel in 1948 , must be measured against the rise of popular anti-semitism since political mobilisation ( including that of reactionaries ) became permitted again , not to mention the massacre of Jews on a considerable scale by local elements in the Baltic states and Ukraine , as the Germans marched in but before the systematic German killing of Jews began . |
| 18 | ‘ Where were the lorries in 1940 when the Germans marched in ? ’ asked Stan . |
| 19 | The bikes closed in , whooping . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm not joking , we literally , sometimes , used to sit there round a big table waiting for the scripts to come in . |
| 21 | I ran back down , picked it up , heard the coins go in ; then ‘ Bastard ! ’ followed by a series of deafening crashes as plastic met metal and glass . |
| 22 | The non-participators join in |
| 23 | And what he used to do in this , he had a string in the and er he could the string put some some er crumbs in the in the er in a and the birds go in and he used to he used to catch them and we used to kill them and pluck them you know . |
| 24 | With another flutter of wings , the birds came in to land on their coop . |
| 25 | The woods crowd in on me as I make my way along the ancient track . |
| 26 | They had travelled only a few yards into the dense timber when the silence of the woods closed in about them , cutting them off from the rest of humanity in a claustrophobic world of towering trunks and patches of thick underbrush . |
| 27 | If the other participants approved a solution it would assist in persuading the Russians to join in eventually . |
| 28 | Do the hours fit in with your existing commitments ? |
| 29 | When we first arrived the Hunters existed in far greater numbers , and were suicidal in their assaults on some of our military attack ships ; they were controlled , though . ’ |
| 30 | Police refused to intervene as protesters attempted to drive their cars to the point on the Atlantic coast where conservationists yearly attempt to count the birds before the hunters move in for the kill . |