Example sentences of "[vb past] in on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the Prime Minister , Stanley Baldwin , got in on the act , speculating upon ‘ the enormous power which the film is developing for propaganda purposes , and the danger to which we in this country and our Empire subject ourselves if we allow that method of propaganda to be entirely in the hands of foreign countries . ’ |
| 2 | Stephen Pullan and Iain Pyman both gave further evidence of the strength of Sand Moor by upstaging clubmate Cage with 68s , while Stephen Burnell ( Brickendon Grange ) and Stoneham 's Alan Mew got in on the act by matching the exacting par of 69 . |
| 3 | Every accusation was thrown at the team , even Tunisia got in on the act . |
| 4 | Second row Paul Warwick got in on the act and full-back David Rowledge stretched the lead to 27–11 with a penalty to add to his earlier conversions . |
| 5 | However , this was before the astronomers , notably Professor Alexander Thom , got in on the act . |
| 6 | After the home club and Southend took the top places , Colchester Joggers got in on the act with the team bronze , a first for the club over this distance . |
| 7 | By the time Adidas and Umbro got in on the act in the late-Seventies , a shirt could be carrying up to 40 little advertisements for the manufacturers , less than subtly integrated into the stripes . |
| 8 | Even their parents got in on the act , when the Mercedes hired to take them to the reception blew up . |
| 9 | The F–104 and T–33 also got in on the act , all are now based at Oshkosh . |
| 10 | Later European governments got in on the act and set about invading and colonizing large chunks of the globe . |
| 11 | Visitors Centre assistant information officer got in on the act when she bravely volunteered for a Harris Hawk to land on her arm . |
| 12 | Now when the Chancellor in the budget said that he would help the poor he stopped short , there were no copper bottomed no copper bottom guarantee and then later on we had Michael Portillo got in on the act . |
| 13 | Even the Granada announcer got in on the act . |
| 14 | Yesterday the Scottish Landowners ' Federation also got in on the act , claiming that the quota sale had confirmed fears about value . |
| 15 | So they got in on the scene and I seen young men that was walking the streets that had nowt to do put a football kit on with G M B written across the front turn out and become super human beings , you never seen nowt like it , they were so pleased to associate with like something like that . |
| 16 | Stepping out of the stables , she opened the half-door of the Lagonda and got in on the driver 's side . |
| 17 | The Welsh international Dean Saunders also got in on the hat-trick act as Derby County overturned a 2-1 deficit against Cambridge United with a 5-0 victory to leave them 6-2 overall winners . |
| 18 | After just two days on the market , the software group has shot up from 70p to 113p — great news for the institutions who got in on the ground floor . |
| 19 | Delaney focussed in on the waves piling up tightly one behind the other , like a huge wall in the foreshortened view . |
| 20 | As soon as he had apprehended any kidnappers , the state prosecutor moved in on the hostages and he never saw them again . |
| 21 | Then Tin Pan Alley moved in on the act and the soul was lost … ’ |
| 22 | It seemed a very long time to Lee before the shadowy adults who surrounded the game moved in on the victim and she wondered why she found herself so static , impotent , so lost . |
| 23 | ‘ I only came in on the red , raw minute , ’ she said , ‘ so you 'll excuse me , madam . ’ |
| 24 | When Ceauŝescu personally came in on the act they faked a car accident and tricked up a couple of bodies for the Securitate to send back to England . |
| 25 | So , as Jonathan Miller put it , ‘ man came in on the back of the machine ’ . |
| 26 | David McIvor came in on the blind-side and Ian Smith was called up when Graham Marshall injured his knee . |
| 27 | Yeah , cos we was there in the August , they were n't , we moved in , in the July , there , and the girls were , Matthew was just four , cos just as we moved in our dad took Matthew to Hungary with him , it was like , it was like they were going on the following Wednesday , and he told me on the Friday , he came in on the Friday night , they planned , it was our dad , Crystal and Danielle , Crystal and Danielle , but she said even if I go out in the middle of . |
| 28 | He came in on the Tube as usual , and walked the last quarter-mile . |
| 29 | Only a sixth of Paris 's milk came in on the Nord network , the biggest importer being Etat . |
| 30 | Kenny Logan switched from wing to fullback and Tony Stanger came in on the wing . |