Example sentences of "in and [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oil had leaked in and formed a rainbow sheen on the surface . |
| 2 | I remember visiting a year or two ago a project in Mexico , where an American organization had moved in and made a careful study , decided that the ideal thing for the local people to do would be to raise chickens , so they put fences up , supplied them with goodness knows how many hundred thousand chickens ; within a year they 'd killed the chickens , pulled the fences down and used them to cook the chickens and they were back exactly where they were . |
| 3 | I had the sales force who called in and done a demonstration in a person 's home . |
| 4 | All the shopkeepers there have chipped in and hired a promo agency to drum up Christmas trade . |
| 5 | There was nothing he had to do to earn it , or nothing to threaten his security , except a too-rapid recovery , which he daily prayed against and which a good God would surely not allow — at least until summer came in and clothed a scarred earth with kindliness . |
| 6 | In the end I bullied Andy , I said , Andy there is something fishy about this fire he said well it 's possible he said that it was erm a display model and every time anybody came in and needed a replacement part instead of sending for the part they took it out of the display model ! |