Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] in [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | But then , from what I hear , that 's overrun with bairns ; they 've stopped gathering them in from the streets . |
2 | ‘ Basic computer keyboard skills have to be there — we would n't want to go the lengths of having to train them on that — but training on our specialist software means bringing them in for a week and we 'll probably bring them in every three months to keep updating them . ’ |
3 | DRAWING THEM IN ON THE WIRRAL |
4 | Peel carried on playing their records and booking them in for sessions , despite their high degree of success . |
5 | They say they 're keeping me in for observation . |
6 | We have been starved of second-hand cars because nobody was trading them in for new ones , but this should change that . ’ |
7 | Wedging itself in between Texas Instruments Inc 's announcement of the Tsunami Sparc chip on October 9 ( UX No 406 ) , and Sun Microsystems Inc 's expected introduction of the first Tsunami box on November 10 , MIPS Technologies Inc , now a wholly owned subsidiary of Silicon Graphics Inc , is due to upgrade its 64-bit R4000 chip to the R4400 this week with a major performance boost . |
8 | Wistaria Cottage was n't worth much and in any case he had talked at one point of trading it in for an annuity . |
9 | Now I 've well I 'm trading it in on Saturday night . |
10 | booking it in as book twice stage you see . |
11 | To relax the feet totally , start by soaking them in for 20 minutes in some herbal bath salts . |
12 | Start filling them in at least a week before you embark on the diet , so that you have a ‘ base-line ’ from which to judge the effect of the diet . |
13 | He 's fitting you in at the end of all his appointments . ’ |
14 | Back at the office , Schellenberg changed into a light grey flannel suit in the bathroom , speaking through the other door to Ilse Huber as he dressed , filling her in on the whole business . |
15 | She told him about the latest developments from Zurich while dressing the wound , filling him in on the backgrounds of Hendrique and Milchan as well as relaying Philpott 's instructions . |
16 | Reagan had tried to meet the families once or twice , the first time in a school library in Chicago Heights ; the relatives furiously demanded help from him , boxing him in with a semi-circle of school chairs . |
17 | When she takes him into the living-room there is a kind of roar , and a man emerges from the background of people and easy chairs , and advances upon Howard , his arms outstretched , his deep , dark eyes raking back and forth over Howard 's face , soaking it in with eager amazement . |
18 | The coach outside gives the game away — Colchester prodigies The Penny Arcade are playing away and they 're bussing 'em in from Essex . |
19 | The coach outside gives the game away — Colchester prodigies The Penny Arcade are playing away and they 're bussing 'em in from Essex . |
20 | But you 're understanding it and you 're fitting it in with what you already know . |
21 | Doing it manually , it had to be done over a period of two or three days , fitting it in after work . ’ |
22 | Outside in the corridor , his mind still easing itself in to the thought that he was now an agent , an M16 man , Carrington met Desmond Morton . |
23 | Finish off the sides by turning them in to the wrong side on the creaselines , with the interlining . |
24 | Then it became darker , the trees denser , thicker , hemming them in on all sides as Thomas guided their horses along some secret path known only to him . |
25 | He sat silent for a moment , glancing with a look of displeasure at the cars jamming them in on either side . |
26 | Rita decided to quell her anxieties , after hearing about an amnesty program for illegal immigrants , by turning herself in to immigration authorities . |
27 | Even John Stuart Mill who , as one would expect , greatly admired Socrates , describing him in On Liberty , rather extravagantly , as " the head and prototype of all subsequent teachers of virtue " and " the acknowledged master of all the eminent thinkers who have since lived , " was moved to protest at this probably misplaced generosity : " The Athenian Many , of whose irritability and suspicion we hear so much , are rather to be accused of too easy and good-natured a confidence , when we reflect that they had living in the midst of them the very men who , on the first show of an opportunity , were ready to compass the subversion of the democracy . " |
28 | I always try to make him more conscious of taking the club away on the inside with a shallow path by turning , not by pulling it in with his arms . |
29 | Making a stock of suitable pictures and then sending them in at a steady trickle to the news editor throughout the year gives your children 's work a good chance of being chosen . |
30 | People 's gon na be sending them in with with the dog |