Example sentences of "be [verb] in [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | French military reinforcements , 150 troops , had been flown in from the Central African Republic to evacuate foreign nationals in Kigali . |
| 2 | They yesterday found out which rating band their houses had been placed in for the new tax , which starts next April . |
| 3 | The dots are filled in with the appropriate names like this : |
| 4 | Wycliffe had been booked in at the one hotel which remained open through the year . |
| 5 | MORE people are looking in at the local , if figures from West Country brewer Devenish are any guide . |
| 6 | They 're thrown in at the deep end , and have to develop skills quickly . |
| 7 | Almost 2,000 knives and other blades have been handed in during the first fortnight of the month-long amnesty . |
| 8 | Then you can tell me some more about that book you 've been buried in for the past week . " |
| 9 | The plaudits have been pouring in over the past weeks , as the following reports show . |
| 10 | By undertaking extravagant adventures aimed at preserving lives which have clearly been called in by the Great Reaper , doctors are not serving the best interests of their clients , which is I take it , their first duty . |
| 11 | I 've been dragged in by the Old Bill twice and your pet grizzly bear Nevil is making life very uncomfortable for people I know . |
| 12 | I think one of the ideas behind the the party chipping in on this is because it would be extremely convenient for people who are popping in at the last minute for |
| 13 | He moved rapidly down-river to Rouen where a number of merchant vessels had been driven in by the exceptional tide , and requisitioned twenty-eight boats . |
| 14 | Within 24 hours Jagmohan had been sworn in as the new state Governor , a post he himself had vacated in favour of Rao in July 1989 . |
| 15 | There 's an image of fire on the screens and they 're piled up like a bonfire with er natural things that have been brought in from the outside , and there 's slide tape projections of the forest around the gallery . |
| 16 | And in recent weeks it 's become a daily chore , as more and more birds have been brought in from the nearby Gloucester Sharpness canal . |
| 17 | The shop had recently been taken over and the existing stock had been brought in by the previous owner . |
| 18 | These rooms are marked in on the visual advanced reservation chart automatically , as are confirmed package tours , groups , conferences and seminars . |
| 19 | Some are pulled in by the package-holiday attractions of Ayia Marina , the island 's miniature experiment in Costa Bravado . |
| 20 | The people who are seizing and occupying the present time can not belong in my colour , they 're like the bits that leap out of a spinning bowl , too heavy , too separate and distinct to be blended in with the other substances ; red-hot stones , flung out and setting on fire the place where they land . |
| 21 | Mike needs to be filled in on the latest developments . ’ |
| 22 | If , however , you feel unable to do this , it would still help us if the questionnaire could be filled in for the largest course , and some indication be given of provision in other courses . |
| 23 | He immediately took to his heels with is case of cigarettes and led me a merry dance away from the docks , through a council estate , finally finishing up on the perimeter track of Ipswich Airport where I was rescued in the nick of time by a squad car full of policemen just as I was about to be filled in by the burly seaman . |
| 24 | She never presumed on her friendship with Eve by expecting to be let in to the inner sanctum . |
| 25 | Hence there must be a facility for storing the cross- reference until it is required , and a system by which the editor is reminded that that cross- reference needs to be written in at the other point ( earlier or later in the text ) . |
| 26 | It would seem that any other harmful fumes around would be drawn in by the same means , aerosols being a prime example . |
| 27 | There would need to be a reorganisation of share capital , so that management 's shares entitle them exclusively to receive an in specie distribution of the shares in Target , following which their shares in the holding company would become worthless deferred shares ( which could then be bought in by the holding company for a nominal price ) . |
| 28 | And when , after lunch , she came downstairs in her new outfit , bought from Selfridge 's last week with the money which J. D. O'Connor had paid her for her articles , and with her next two articles in her bag , ready to be handed in to the great man himself before she returned to the rectory to pick up Rose Bailey , whose time off did not begin until four-thirty , both Dr Neil and Matey thought that she looked enchanting . |
| 29 | And also I 'm going in on the fourteenth of July , er in to have my knee washed out on the fourteenth of July . |
| 30 | Oh of course do n't forget yester yesterday erm they allow so many in so you 'd all be going in at the same time |