Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] in [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Typically , Gedge has since gone in for his usual strict self-criticism . |
| 2 | The madman has just flown in from Rome on a whim , to spend a few days with me here . |
| 3 | ‘ This report has just come in from the Environments Officer . |
| 4 | The show is hip and happening , dude : the audience looks as if it has just walked in off the King 's Road , the post-modernish set is ultra-cool , the show 's titles are dazzling , the best I 've seen on British television . |
| 5 | And his friend Rachel ( ‘ She 's a singer ’ ) has just dropped in with some presents from her mom , and the bluesman tells us his old voice is starting to go , and our audience is finished . |
| 6 | The arts community has always gone in for manic attention-seeking , of course — the oxygen of publicity ( to borrow a phrase ) being crucial to its survival . |
| 7 | This may cut out a certain amount of light , but as there are two windows in one corner , the room has light coming in from two directions and is probably lighter than average anyway . |
| 8 | The free edge of the epidermis has clearly moved in over the marked wound mesenchyme , leaving less than 10% of it exposed by this stage . |
| 9 | Mr Gonzalez has also come in for criticism from within his own party . |
| 10 | Mr Gonzalez has also come in for criticism from within his own party . |
| 11 | They were all sitting there staring at me and Monsieur de Levantiére said , ‘ This is Constance , who has kindly stepped in at the last moment . ’ |
| 12 | None of the European resorts has yet gone in for the wholesale investment in snow-making which we see in the United States , mainly because the capital outlay is enormous and the running costs extremely high . |
| 13 | ‘ Diana is an Uptown girl who has never gone in for downtown men , ’ observes Rory Scott . |
| 14 | Gon na see how , per haps perhaps fits in with the other erm bits , so who 's starting off , you 're starting off are n't you ? |
| 15 | I mean given that you 've got a , oh I do n't know , a pound you 're going to spend a week in gambling entertainment , if I could put it that way , you 'd do better to go in for the pools , because if you did have a win you might have a big one , than to put it on a horse — am I right ? |
| 16 | You 'd do better to buy in from outside . |
| 17 | And I 'd just got in at about oh half three . |
| 18 | She 'd just walked in to the nearest doorway and spilled the whole thing to a complete stranger . |
| 19 | Ye 'd best go in before the rain . ’ |
| 20 | Now they were in the home stretch , and Sir Ivor seemed hopelessly hemmed in as the American horses pushed for the wire . |
| 21 | Such is the state of computer technology for the registration and running of club membership lists that hobby-based clubs for children or adults like this , run by publishers , could well proliferate , and lively booksellers might do well to get in on the act . |
| 22 | Gemmell just kept in by Crosby and it comes again to Gemmell . |
| 23 | Almost two thirds of the £6.75 billion worth of tax increases already pencilled in for 1994-95 will fall on personal incomes , only a third will be fall on spending . |
| 24 | Joined possibly joined in with them although it does n't actually say . |
| 25 | With six minutes of the game to go Bicester gained a free kick ; Walton placed the ball to the far post where Barry Cooper receiving the ball on his chest , turned quickly to score in to the top of the net . |
| 26 | Profits before tax on the same basis of accounting as used previously came in at £248.25m against £252.3m . |
| 27 | Profits before tax on the same basis of accounting as used previously came in at £248.25 million , against £252.3 million . |
| 28 | Those carmen are sittin' outside the wharves fer hours on end at times , an' they like ter come in fer a mug o' tea an' a chat . |
| 29 | By Saturday they had both recovered sufficiently to fall in with the rest of the company for pay parade , waiting in a long queue to collect five shillings each from the paymaster . |
| 30 | The commodore , having just tacked in from Pin Mill , says that while he recognises the accomplishment of an ancient mariner there in teaching a grey parrot to recite the complete works of Shakespeare in Urdu , and could see that this might help international relations in some way , he is far from certain this was the sort of thing Mr Major had in mind . |