Example sentences of "in [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her body lay at the rest in the chapel downstairs , the light filtering in through lancet windows on her oak coffin and the dark-stained , hand-carved pews . |
| 2 | As Major Pond discovered , seat-holders were let in through side doors while hoi polloi had to come in through the front in the hope of getting what they could . |
| 3 | Most houses had their windows barred as standard ; wealthier householders went in for burglar alarms . |
| 4 | That 's always a concern at the villages , because I live in a town , I live in a small town near here , erm I 've had a lot of dealings in villages , and people who live in villages always want to have starter homes , but as soon as you put an application in for starter homes , there 's even more opposition to it , as happened down in Bleasby , Council threw that one out . |
| 5 | Now I have a salaried job instead of running the home I have no time to do the shopping , take the car to the garage or wait in for service engineers of various sorts . |
| 6 | For the exasperated livestock farmer , with fears for the future of his pig unit or broiler house , for the fruit-grower alarmed by the possibility of a poisonous spray inadvertently finding its way into the metabolism of a casual passerby , and for the cereals farmer who does not take kindly to his best malting barley being trampled down in order to create an impromptu picnic site , the simplest solution is to go in for siege tactics . |
| 7 | As consultant geriatrician in the department of medicine for the elderly at Edgware General Hospital , Ann Homer deals with patients over 75 who come in for respite services . |
| 8 | ‘ As they strap in for holiday flights , how many people imagine themselves at the controls ? ’ said a Virgin spokesman . |
| 9 | The Communists put in for wage rises , holiday increases ; a new cabinet was formed , Prime Minister Pompidou offered deals , new talks ; the strikes continued , but dwindled in number . |
| 10 | The way it was done was that if you imagine putting one card in for psychology , two cards in for research methods , one card in for psychoanalytical approaches , three cards in for memory and so on and so forth an then they were sort of drawn out and then when a topic had been picked the other cards were removed . |
| 11 | And this Mr he was , he used to c he well he was collec calling f with Mr and he kept calling with me the same so I used to order my bulk in October to come in for Christmas goods . |
| 12 | Of every hundred pounds that 's invested , round about forty pounds goes straight to the government in betting duty , round about thirty pounds goes to the football pools in expenses , commissions and profits , leaving round about thirty pounds to be returned in prizes , and so you can see that your rate of return on football pools is extremely small , but on the other hand a very large number of people do enter the football pools , and when they win they can win considerable sums of money and it can make absolute rational economic sense to go in for football pools because you are giving yourself a chance , no matter how small , of winning a sum of money that you would n't expect to come across in any other way of your life . |
| 13 | The butler then went in for breeding dogs which he kept in large wire enclosures . |
| 14 | The narrator-hero of Kingsley Amis 's The Green Man ( 1969 ) , in most respects an ordinary chap , has to be persuaded by his wife even to drop in for family meals . |
| 15 | Will there be people of different ages all doing separate things or do you go in for family activities or both ? |
| 16 | You ought to go in for beauty comps , he said when he was winding up his film . |
| 17 | If you cash in between anniversary dates , the full value at the latest anniversary plus net interest at half the fixed rate for the period since will be received . |
| 18 | In between college courses and jobs as an ad executive , Elizabeth always took time out to return to her first love — travelling . |
| 19 | Points out that even though no more than week long , seemed to last approx. 2000 years given their children with talent for running away from home/eating razor blades/climbing into boot of car to die/vomiting continuously/fighting with our children in between asthma bouts . |
| 20 | In between driving lessons — she passed her test at the second attempt she was much in demand as a babysitter by her sisters ' married friends while Sarah used her to make up numbers at her frequent dinner parties . |
| 21 | This direct editing involves the recording in of video inserts and/or audio dubs . |
| 22 | Clara could never understand why others did not repay her contempt with contempt — why , for instance , the church-goers and novel-readers and fillers in of football coupons and motorbike owners in the area did not possess the courage of their convictions and gang up on Mrs Maugham 's massive disapprobation . |
| 23 | A university education , after all , was no more than other people telling you what to think , the pouring in of examination facts , an uncreative process leading to sterility , not freedom . |
| 24 | They d they should do them in like fishing shops |
| 25 | The then Transport Minister , Benoît Bouchard , ended speculation by announcing on Oct. 4 , 1989 , a 50 per cent cut in Via Rail services from Jan. 15 , 1990 . |
| 26 | In addition , cuts in Via Rail services and reductions in other federal expenditures had not proved to be politically popular . |
| 27 | In Under Water Welders and Repairers Ltd v Street and Longthorne [ 1968 ] RPC 498 Buckley J , on motion , said nothing adverse about a clause which sought to make " the policy " of the company a business secret . |
| 28 | The poles were pushed in along canvas tunnels at the sides . |
| 29 | Bother girls steam in with skinhead reissues |
| 30 | There is little evidence of either the presence or practical aid of Russian priests in the afflicted rural areas , though a considerable number of West European churchmen came in with relief organizations . |