Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] in [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manager Dick Graham immediately went back to his former club , West Bromwich Albion , and purchased Welsh International , Tony Millington to take over but , by the end of the year it was Jackson who was earning praise in the Palace goal after standing in for the injured Welshman and making his home debut against Cardiff on 28 November 1964 , and by the end of the season ‘ Jacko ’ , as he became popularly called , was in undisputed possession |
| 2 | De Gaulle wanted the agricultural settlement but was not prepared to accept it at the price of giving in to the other five and the Commission on the issues of resourcing and budgetary control . |
| 3 | It may have been ignored since 1981 and left to make do with just two small engines ( and thus no way of cashing in on the ever-increasing popularity of the hot supermini in Britain ) but all that 's changed now . |
| 4 | The feet should be kept in the straps until sheeting in on the new tack , thereby keeping the board on its banked course throughout the crucial rig change . |
| 5 | He gave it a few pumps and collected an armful of logs for the stove before going in through the back door . |
| 6 | Their acquiescence was to be encouraged by a campaign of information and by mobilising convinced peasants to persuade recalcitrant ones , but nothing could stop the tractors from moving in on the appointed day . |
| 7 | He would look in the summer-house before coming in by the back door but he seldom found me there now . |
| 8 | So these dare devils have got 6 months to dry out before diving in at the deep end once again . |
| 9 | Tonight she 's putting them early to bed , before tuning in to the American election . |
| 10 | The paper started by zeroing in on the inner London boroughs . |