Example sentences of "in [conj] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Come in or shut the door darling . |
| 2 | ( ii ) the registered foreign lawyer 's solicitor partners play no role in setting up , operating , actively participating in or controlling the business ; and |
| 3 | On the one hand lay those who had trained in or followed the European tradition of independence and free investigative journalism ; on the other lay a tradition that was also important and which has perhaps been the more lasting . |
| 4 | Erm and people would n't know what to do , whether to leave the child at the bottom of the stairs and take the the shopping in or to leave the shopping and have er you know , er think it might go missing or something by the time they take the child and the buggy . |
| 5 | People living in towns and cities can hardly be denied their quite reasonable and legitimate desire either to reside in or to visit the countryside and without them many villages would now lie abandoned and semi — derelict . |
| 6 | ’ , ‘ Gently , gently , the floor … ’ ) , seeing that all was well I did not go right in or disturb the piles of old magazines , wormy furniture , books , and china lying there ; after all , they belonged to the house . |
| 7 | Krimsky 's participatory role , as well as his logical expository style , make the book interesting reading for those who joined in or followed the controversy . |
| 8 | The police are anxious to hear from anyone who has lived in or visited the house recently or who knows of anyone who has done so . |
| 9 | In what ways might each of these proposed developments reduce the pleasures of people who live in or visit the area ? |
| 10 | Within six months after termination , the employee would not ‘ engage in or undertake the trade or business of an employment agency ’ in Greater London , within a 1km radius of his or her old branch . |
| 11 | This left the restriction against engaging in or undertaking the trade or business of an employment agency within the kilometre circle , for six months . |
| 12 | Anyone in possession of material inside information must either disclose it to the investing public or if he is disabled from disclosing it in order to protect a corporate confidence , or he chooses not to do so , must abstain from trading in or recommending the securities concerned while such inside information remains undisclosed . |
| 13 | The statistical and econometric methodological questions which are important in the context of the above data sets are concerned with would , and how , people stay in or leave the sample . |
| 14 | In diplomatic exchanges , at least , the French accepted American reservations about unregenerate colonialism in Vietnam although , as the French pointed out , they could not be expected to assist in or condone the establishment of a government of Vietnam which would not follow democratic principles ‘ as these are understood in the West ’ . |
| 15 | They excelled in and developed the arts of building , of engineering and of town planning . |
| 16 | Reza Shah exiled one ayatollah who dared to criticize the Shah 's female relations for entering a shrine unveiled , Indeed , one of his military aides was said to have violated the sanctuary of the shrine by marching in and dragging the ayatollah out by his beard , so that the Shah could whip him for his lese-majeste . |
| 17 | However , the landlord took pity and Sally was the one not too mud bespattered to go in and fetch the drinks — meanwhile the horse trod on Ian 's toe … |
| 18 | So the head catcher decides that the moment has come to go in and bring the captives out , starting with the calves . |
| 19 | Tapes cut in and overlaid the unearthly siren-call of the electro-acoustic instrument , and Minerva 's cello answered the melodic tonality with a delicately offhand echo . |
| 20 | But if the alien premises are as subtle as they are pervasive , they can filter in and overpower the mind before it is even aware of their presence , let alone their danger . |
| 21 | And then ri , down a bit further in verse eleven , pass through the midst of the camp and command the people say , preva , prepare provisions for yourself , for within three days you are to cross this Jordan to go in and possess the land which the Lord , your God , is giving you to possess it . |
| 22 | Why on earth did n't they go in and possess the land ? |
| 23 | A young man , dark , short , burly , in a navy guernsey and jeans and gumboots , came in and lifted the coal bags into the Land-Rover beside my cases . |
| 24 | Shepherd switched the hologram off , then reached in and lifted the flexible plate up . |
| 25 | Its job will be to consider the responses coming in and to decide the priorities . |
| 26 | It just occurred to me that Tuesday would be another opportunity to talk to Julian , the guy who comes in and does the S U legal aid stuff . |
| 27 | If you have views please write in and request the Decentralisation Questionnaire ( available from mid-July — deadline for replies , 30 September ) . |
| 28 | There was no sign of any other cars or tanks or armoured personnel carriers and no indication that the police Stukas were waiting to come in and bomb the last pockets of resistance . |
| 29 | The eight-man team train by hauling a barrel of concrete up a telegraph pole using a pulley system — and then digging in and holding the 810 kilo load aloft for up to half an hour . |
| 30 | Er we we go in and sell the advertising if they er we 'll take over as soon as the current supply runs out we we 'll start offering er and supply it for them . |