Example sentences of "he [vb -s] in [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | As the car which has been sent for him comes in along the odd little elevated motorway , only four lanes wide , most of the city seems to be below eye-level . |
| 2 | Well he does , he goes in on Saturdays very often , he goes in on Sundays very often , you know , goes up to have a look at a site or goes into the office to look over something in peace without the phone ringing all that 's sort of thing , he puts in a lot of time that 's not strictly accounted for , Gerry did , I did as a teacher , but then we were well paid . |
| 3 | Well he does , he goes in on Saturdays very often , he goes in on Sundays very often , you know , goes up to have a look at a site or goes into the office to look over something in peace without the phone ringing all that 's sort of thing , he puts in a lot of time that 's not strictly accounted for , Gerry did , I did as a teacher , but then we were well paid . |
| 4 | When eavesdropping ( a vicarious ghost-life he goes in for ) , he hears Raskolnikov tell Sonya about the crime , and later , without openly referring to it , the potential suicide twits the actual murderer : Sell , you can certainly do a lot . ’ |
| 5 | He goes in for a sort of hall-of-mirrors self-impersonation , telling people how he would have done the murder if he had done it ( which he has ) . |
| 6 | ‘ Doubtless he visits the alehouse when he goes in for supplies . ’ |
| 7 | If your candidate is going to research the level of pollution in a local river , he does n't stand on the bridge and look ; he either wades in to feel for junk or he goes in with a professional diver to find it . |
| 8 | If , however , he goes in with the public on that day , conceals himself , and takes the painting on the following day , he is not guilty . |
| 9 | When his mind 's on fisticuffs he sits in on the training sessions there . |
| 10 | He keeps a sleeping bag up there , stuffed behind the old ventilator pipes , and he sleeps in with her . |
| 11 | ‘ He fits in with me , ’ he answered stubbornly . |
| 12 | 84 year old , Douglas Cox , was attacked just yards from the old people 's home he lives in in Cheltehnam . |
| 13 | Last week he put forward a ( disappointing ) programme to overhaul the schools ; next week he homes in on campaign finance and national service ; some day soon , welfare reform . |
| 14 | Even Ivan Illich , though their opening sentence contains an echo of his ‘ the medical establishment has become a major threat to health ’ , is ignored in the text : he scrapes in with a mere single source reference . |
| 15 | One man who could have a busy day on Sunday if he drops in on the above conference will be Michael Billington , the theatre critic of The Guardian . |
| 16 | There 's a grudge against Tom because he drops in on everyone . |
| 17 | Midfielder Ferguson , indeed , has outshone most of his more experienced rivals as he fills in for injured Bryan Robson , as the expense of England 's Neil Webb . |
| 18 | He recalls in On Some of the Mental Affections of Childhood and Youth ( 1887 ) that in early life he had seen that ‘ children who were afflicted by mental alienation or mental incapacity of any kind ’ were categorized as idiots and considered incapable of responding to help . |
| 19 | For Ian he tunes in on Abraham Lincoln delivering the Gettysburg Address ; Barbara chooses the court of Elizabeth I , watching Shakespeare and Bacon vying for posterity ; and Vicki selects a 1965 performance by the Beatles , professing an interest in classical music . |
| 20 | But Kevin still has his Dad 's bag — and credit card — and he checks in at the ritzy Plaza Hotel before embarking on an hilarious , hair-raising adventure when he runs into the same villains — Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern — who he fought off when he was Home Alone . |
| 21 | He wades in among the pair of them , grabs their studded leather collars and starts yanking them away . |
| 22 | When he roars in from the back of the auditorium , swinging on to the stage from a box , you know that this is the start of something very good . |
| 23 | A deadlock can only be opened with a key so a thief can not smash a pane of glass and open the door ; or if he gets in through a window , he ca n't carry your property out through the door . |
| 24 | What F writes need be no more than barely ‘ understandable ’ , provided that he throws in from time to time some ‘ historical terminology ’ , which he need not necessarily understand , nor use appropriately . |
| 25 | ‘ He rushes in with his chin exposed , and I aim to exploit that weakness . |
| 26 | For example a salesman may operate with his own briefcase computer unit which he plugs in to the telephone system when he wants to obtain or transfer information . |
| 27 | He weighs in at 13-and-a-half stone and is 6ft 4in tall . |
| 28 | HE 'S the tallest player in League football at 6ft 7in , he weighs in at 16 ½st and wears size 13 boots . |
| 29 | He falls in with Compeyson and helps him to discover Magwitch 's hiding-place . |
| 30 | Gloucester is different from Lear in that he gives in to his family and also Goneril and Regan . |