Example sentences of "[vb pp] in on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could feel my heart going boom-ba-di-boom — imagined my heart when it was dead , all its auricles and ventricles shrinking and wrinkling like burst balloons after my head got bashed in on the rocks . |
| 2 | Juan Sosa , former Panamanian ambassador in Washington , said that , if the US had been ‘ more active ’ , several battalions of wavering Panamanian troops would have joined in on the rebel side . |
| 3 | Gran has joined in on the act . |
| 4 | A major supermarket has just unveiled four new Teenage Mutant Hero Turtle pizzas and Dr Mumby says the way the foodmakers have jumped in on the Turtle band-wagon is wrong . |
| 5 | A tidy desk and behind it a man who might have come in on the Saturday afternoon for extra work . |
| 6 | Toby , on the other hand , just looked in on the way to the boarding annexe , and popped straight out again , while Corbett Farraday had no particular fear of the boys — were n't they all boys together at Burleigh ? and stayed in the Staff Common Room for no other reason than to work himself up to an approach to Penny . |
| 7 | She had not looked in on the gallery this visit . |
| 8 | A new board is voted in on the promise that they 'll get a better deal . |
| 9 | These horses are part-Arab , part-Basque and part-English , the English blood having been mixed in on the orders of Napoleon 1 , while the Arab strain has been traced , perhaps fancifully , to the horses left behind by the Saracens , who were badly defeated near here in the eighth century . |
| 10 | As the freak end of the underground had dropped in on the LSE , so the politicos , or would-be politicos , packed their bags for Alexandra Palace . |
| 11 | John was astounded to learn Carol had entered him in the competition only mum Linda was let in on the secret . |
| 12 | John was astounded to learn Carol had entered him in the competition only mum Linda was let in on the secret . |
| 13 | The next day , he telephoned Al Clark , asking that Music Week be let in on the joke . |
| 14 | Built in on the site of an older church , it once had a central pulpit with pews arranged round it in a circle . |
| 15 | She swam and sunbathed , went sightseeing , worked on her designs , talked brightly on the phone with Lucy , or Dad or Charles whenever they rang her , forcing herself not to ask whether Guy had moved in on the firm yet , and then wincing when Lucy said that he 'd made his mark in a dramatic emergency board meeting , put up the backs of most of the board of directors when he announced sweeping measures to increase profitability , cut overheads … |
| 16 | Wainfleet added that although the police had closed in on the area they had missed Sniffy . |
| 17 | Mind , he 'd crashed in on the situation pretty damn quickly , stepping in and being nice to her almost before she had dried her eyes , trying to get her on the rebound . |
| 18 | It went into your jotter , your jotter was handed in on the Monday morning , or the first time you went to the eng the English class and the teacher was his name , he went over that and if you 'd missed out a comma , you see or a full stop or anything like that . |
| 19 | They 've got in on the shelves there . |
| 20 | We may have zeroed in on the difference , but so what ? |
| 21 | The Land Rover 's motor was already running when he arrived in the street , and when Hennessy had clambered in on the passenger side Windeler moved off without even waiting to see if the door was secure . |
| 22 | They 've been working very hard , in some cases long hours I think it 's right because this is a similar discussion we had by Public Protection Committee about a report and the main thing about the report is to find ways in which this could be avoided and that we could take such action as necessary and obviously some matters to avoid such a happening again but having said that other parts of West Sussex have always tended to be erm when you get excess rain erm you tend to get flooded in on the train many times some houses have got boats down the bottom of their garden and it 's not just now it 's been flooded , but it has been flooded in more recent times and that 's probably something we should be looking at . |
| 23 | As the full impact of these figures was borne in on the DES , it reacted by successively cutting back teacher-training places in the colleges of education . |
| 24 | Even passersby found themselves roped in on the act . |
| 25 | Howard sits up front with a shotgun grazing his earlobe , whilst Miki , Emma , Chris and myself are squashed in on the back seat , staring through the grating at the road ahead . |
| 26 | Finally I turned and started back , not conscious of anything , my mind still locked in on the impression the place had made so that I only vaguely heard a voice calling me . |
| 27 | Then he remembered the time that he had walked in on the Politburo meeting and arrested Beria . |
| 28 | The same year 1960 , saw the Pedler 's retire to live in the flat over the Ladies ' room , although Bill still involved himself helping his replacement — Derek Craik — who came as Assistant shortly before Bill 's retirement ( replacing Keith Mercer , an earlier assistant brought in on the crest of the membership boom ) . |
| 29 | Eventually , he mentioned the present writer and suggested that I should be brought in on the matter as I had already knowledge of one or two other cases . |
| 30 | And in any case , if he recovered he 'd spend his life looking for Vecchi , if that party had muscled in on the black . |