Example sentences of "a [noun] [to-vb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can juggle the hours around a bit to fit in with other things . ’ |
| 2 | Net income on the group 's £52.3 million of net cash grew from £2.4 million to £4.1 million , with the help of currency gains and a decision to lock in at fixed rates last July . |
| 3 | There are fears over the future of a theatre following a decision to bring in new management . |
| 4 | When I got back I found the office was n't open until the next day , so I had to get a driver to break in for me . |
| 5 | The winner is decided erm on the total correct entries and if I 'm right there is a slogan to fill in . |
| 6 | Perhaps we could find a cottage to stay in tonight . |
| 7 | But you have to have a fight to get in ! |
| 8 | and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in . |
| 9 | But Dawn Run was not a horse to give in meekly , and as the four came round into the straight she stuck resolutely to her guns . |
| 10 | The richest man in the camp and no matter that his soul 's too dirty for a horse to tread in . |
| 11 | Deep enough , at any rate , for a boat to get in to the boat-house which was tucked in under the cliff at the southern end of the bay , below the path where I stood . |
| 12 | As the article states , they were a pleasure to fly in and compared to the Lincolns they were indeed luxurious . |
| 13 | If I 'm going to live , give me a future to live in and a present to build from . |
| 14 | What is now required is a law making it a crime to act in , produce , distribute or sell films and videos depicting cruel and excessive violence . |
| 15 | And he said , all they did , they got ta pay a pound to go in . |
| 16 | The moon on the floor for a lover to stand in ; |
| 17 | Brian Atkinson goes hunting for goals at Peterborough today in a bid to cash in on his new role at Sunderland . |
| 18 | In a bid to bring in larger audiences its name was changed to the Palace of Varieties and it went over to non-stop vaudeville and variety for three years . |
| 19 | And er I 'd got a key to get in from the works into the office once I was inside , but that was access to the works you know and er I er I en I enjoyed it more or less and I must say the firm , to some extent , looked up to me and I 'd only got to have a damned machine stop , where the girls was working on this machine , and the bobbin shop and all that sort of thing , and I was able to go look er , down and say look here I want this . |
| 20 | And Mrs Metcalfe , of Ascot View , in Redhall , Darlington , said the burglars must have used a key to get in . |
| 21 | He had given Gina a column to take in to his paper while he was away . |
| 22 | A large gloomy bedroom had been the setting of it , hung with draperies , not the kind of thing you would expect a child to sleep in , but it was a little child that lay on the bed , white and still , the elderly man , evidently a doctor , who had seemingly just lifted a looking glass from the parted lips , turning to the young father and imparting the news of death , while the mother in a transport of grief clung to her husband , her head buried in his shoulder . |
| 23 | It was never properly looked after and could sometimes have as much as two inches of muddy water in it — enough for a child to drown in if he fell over . |
| 24 | Le Corbusier 's opinion that a house is a machine to live in is no longer disputed ; just as planners now regard a town as a machine to live in . |
| 25 | Le Corbusier 's opinion that a house is a machine to live in is no longer disputed ; just as planners now regard a town as a machine to live in . |
| 26 | and he 's in inherited a family home , so he 's got a home to live in , but he does n't earn very much does he ? |
| 27 | So here we are , you know , our leader was someone who was homeless for times during his ministry and he belonged to a people who said their god was the father of the fatherless and the protector of widows , and god who gives the desolate a home to dwell in . |
| 28 | saying you 've got ta train somebody on the list for instance , you 've got to have a specialist to come in and do that so it 's not something you do yourself . |
| 29 | A determination to rein in the president also lay behind the Case Act that became law in 1972 . |
| 30 | We chose a village to stay in almost at random — it was the place we got to as the evening was drawing in . |