Example sentences of "[v-ing] in [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the occupied tables contained a man and woman and child , tucking in to great slabs of meat . |
| 2 | By 1980 the operation was clearly prospering , bringing in on average £2500 per week in the second half of the year . |
| 3 | Frick idled his way along the corridor , looking in through various windows . |
| 4 | Swearing in of civilian President |
| 5 | Nujoma 's policy statement — Swearing in of National Assembly and Council of Ministers |
| 6 | In Scotland the central valley was filling in with massive expansions particularly around Glasgow , while growth around Edinburgh , Dundee and Aberdeen maintained a long-standing pattern . |
| 7 | Wright battled back into the senior side and scored in the Mersey derby defeat at Everton — but only after filling in for injured Steve Nicol and David Burrows . |
| 8 | They are tailing unmarked police cars to stake outs and listening in on secret frequencies . |
| 9 | ‘ Listening in to private conversations is bad enough . |
| 10 | The reality sinking in for newly-elected Labour MPs this weekend is that Mr Patten 's estimate was right . |
| 11 | Instead , he has relied on great fitness and stamina to enable him to keep sprinting in at full pace , and speed of arm and perfect balance to capitalize on the momentum ; combined with an unrelenting desire to keep on taking more and more wickets , it has all proved irresistible . |
| 12 | The full force of the rising tide had reached the channel mouth and a foaming mass of water was pouring in with terrifying speed . |
| 13 | It is the pouring in of new wine , but the bottles must also be new or they will burst , and this is exactly what Mr. Alexander 's treatment does . |
| 14 | He cleverly made use of the lowering fuel weight and bedding in of new tyres , to outwit his British challengers , Hawthorn and Collins . |
| 15 | Indeed , in the very thick of the Suez preparations ( 14 September ) ‘ the Cabinet was about Plan G — the current plan for Britain going in with European federation ’ ; and then ( 18 September ) ‘ the Cabinet held its second meeting on Plan G for British association with the Messina powers in Europe . |
| 16 | We never seem to be going in for young players from lower divisions anymore . |
| 17 | I said , well she 's er she 's going in for medical secretary . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've seen tackles going in from other sides that would without question produce a booking for a United player . ’ |
| 19 | It was certainly an eventful day for Eddis as it was he who put Comrades further in front on 27 minutes , heading in from close range after Grant was unable to hold Philip Leckey 's firmly struck angled shot . |
| 20 | Attach the little burner to the base of the large balloon and insert the passengers into the large basket , fixing in with royal icing . |
| 21 | If he remained at liberty , he could authorise the calling in of outside help — hence , as insurance , the coup leader 's attempt to destroy the President s reputation by connecting him to the cocaine trade . |
| 22 | I remember watching the last episode on your predecessor ATV when it was repeated in 1976 and the announcer talked of people calling in with various theories about what it was all supposed to mean . |
| 23 | The main variations are caused by the phasing in of major re-equipment programmes : Polaris in the latter half of the 1960s ; RAF re-equipment in the early 1970s ; Army re-equipment in the mid-1970s ; the Tornado programme in the mid-1980s , and the start of the Trident programme in the late 1980s . |
| 24 | On Oct. 8 Congress gave final approval to a major energy bill which promoted the phasing in of alternative fuels , the streamlining of the licensing procedure for nuclear power plants , and the encouragement of energy conservation . |
| 25 | Given these disturbing facts , the phasing out of nuclear power and phasing in of renewable technologies makes sense . |
| 26 | As part of the settlement to last year 's National dispute , the phasing in of Extended Opening Hours was agreed as follows : — 10.00am–4.00p.m. with effect from 1st May 1992 ; 10.00a.m. –4.00p.m. from 1st January , 1993 . |
| 27 | Sabbatical leave , further training for teacher trainers themselves , and the buying in of linguistic expertise could only go part way in breaking the vicious circle . |
| 28 | But today his solicitor Tony Hughes told Milton Keynes magistrates the youth had changed his ways after leaving council care and moving in with foster parents . |
| 29 | That 's in the open ocean in enclosed basins , for example the Black Sea , many fjords and sea lochs , the deep waters are not renewed by water masses moving in from other areas in the way that they are in the open ocean and there anoxia can occur in the deep waters , that is the oxygen can be completely removed by biological activity particularly in degradation processes of organic matter , bacterial respiration so anoxic conditions can occur in isolated deep basins but low oxygen concentrations are actually very rare in the open ocean . |
| 30 | The various small patrols converged on the target and on the fourth night out mounted their attack , moving in from different directions . |