Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] in [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just avoided the boys in the town for a while , only going in with my father or at times when I knew they would be in school . |
| 2 | Ian Brown 's drop goal increased the lead to four points , but the last quarter belonged exclusively to the visitors with Stephen Cowan , Maurice Field , Richard Cullen , Colin Wilkinson and Graeme Copeland all getting in for tries from which full-back Colin Wilkinson converted two of them . |
| 3 | Keeping things simple is often the best bet , an investment of both time and effort is required to learn anything new , so diving in at the deep end with one of the full-blown integrated packages may cause more disruption than it 's worth . |
| 4 | These three members of the Procellariidae family have one thing in common : they are all ‘ night birds ’ , only coming in to the screes and grassy slopes of the cliffs under cover of darkness to change places with their mate on the single egg , deep within a burrow , or later to feed the young . |
| 5 | She was only joining in for the sake of the others because Murder in the Dark is more fun with five than with four . |
| 6 | He of friends , and I thought well , when we 're going into this , you know , he 's obviously coming in as a colleague , because actually he was a member of the same damn union . |
| 7 | The idea of literally dropping in on the enemy and catching them unawares would have seemed attractive after several months ' idleness . |
| 8 | Whether they 're the citizens ' charter , whether they are response to people from the press or from the public or constantly ringing in to the switchboard , or whether it 's by all the other ways in which we disseminate information . |
| 9 | Her habit of jealously bursting in on Gustave when he was dining with friends was notorious . |
| 10 | As Crawford , Winner and the ten-person film unit prepared to start work in the War Memorial Gallery , not exactly blending in with the surroundings , those on the floor of the Stock Exchange looked up , started screaming and shouting , and threw paper darts . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's just looking in on them . |
| 12 | One writer described couples entering and leaving church in the 1870s as ‘ cool and businesslike , as though having paid the deposit on the purchase of a donkey or a handsome barrow , they were just going in with their witnesses to settle the bargain ’ . |
| 13 | Ah well , in tomorrow like but I 'm just going in till twenty past nine and then sign my name off and going home . |
| 14 | Orders are already pouring in for the American-made scarves and bandanas that heat up when a liquid-filled pad is microwaved is placed into a pouch . |
| 15 | So you would feel equally at home there with a group of friends on a night out or just popping in for a quiet drink and a chat . |
| 16 | Visibility was good , but the Newfoundland fog bank could be seen ahead , and Jack was soon flying in between a bank of dense black cloud and fog . |
| 17 | Well erm , at half past six Paula he 'll be in the middle of his tea , you 've got to give the guy a chance to turn round try to suit you , but think of him , he 's just getting in from work and boom |
| 18 | Certainly not the army of supporters who 've been painting , odd-jobbing and generally mucking in over the past week . |
| 19 | Several of the photographers and columnists were already drifting in in the hope of an early drink ( they 'd be unlucky — we could n't serve drinks before twelve ) . |
| 20 | At this stage Vigilant was ten miles away moving in at eleven knots while the three other cutters were twenty miles away converging at twenty knots . |
| 21 | There I was welcomed by Molly Braithwaite who demonstrated Medau movement and I was soon joining in with the others present . |
| 22 | This must be him just coming in through the side door . |
| 23 | Beyond them , just coming in through the door , she saw Pascoe . |
| 24 | You never know what 's just coming in through the door . ’ |
| 25 | Just coming in through the door at that very minute was Detective-Constable Edwards . |
| 26 | You 're just on the approaches to Jerusalem , you 're just coming in to Jerusalem right ? |
| 27 | It 's when I , when I went to Poland it 's not two or three years , it was nineteen seventy three and I was , I was just coming in into the church and the one Witness was with me and we were going in er big town like Cracow , you know , we were going one way and there was a couple coming erm to meet us like you know in , in , in , on the road , and he was just wearing erm jeans and no shirt , but erm a big , big wooden cross on his chest just reaching really across his chest a wooden cross and then erm a safety pin in his nose and three safety pins attached to one another through his ears and this Witness with me walking down , she says just look at this couple and the girl was , wore the same dress she , she had the top on , you know , but again all sort of queer looking and she , this Witness with me , with me so , she said just look at the two that 's er coming aga to meet us and I said yes and I looked and I said look at the cross and she says yes , it used to be , they used to hang the criminals on the crosses and now the crosses hang on the criminals is n't that lovely , and now the cross is er all the criminals instead of the cross , oh yes |
| 28 | Look — there she is , just coming in from the garden . ’ |
| 29 | That time we 're just coming in from a nightclub . |
| 30 | The goods shed at the back , and the train just coming in from Lincoln there . |