Example sentences of "[verb] in [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He obviously changed the clock around — there are many filled in holes in the front — which implies it was a pioneering , experimental piece . |
| 2 | More than 4,000 12 to 16year-old members of the Halifax Building Society Quest Club filled in questionnaires for the latest survey . |
| 3 | R.S. ran seminars in London hotels bringing in speakers from the relocation area to discuss issues such as health , education and housing . |
| 4 | Jill Neville was , and is , a novelist , whose arrival in Britain had been part of an earlier 1960s Australian wave , more tied to bohemianism than to the music and the scene that sucked in Australians in the mid 1960s . |
| 5 | He sucked in lungfuls of the cool fresh air and looked around for human habitation . |
| 6 | This will bring in reforms of the kind which the Consumers ' Association have been campaigning for over many a long year . |
| 7 | ‘ We figured that we could bring in artists from the '90s to interpret Hendrix using the computer technology that was only a dream in the '60s , ’ explains Storey . |
| 8 | Yes , yes Erm one once you 've done that if you could give in diaries for the day and then your time is your own . |
| 9 | Filling in forms at the interview |
| 10 | If possible avoid filling in forms at the time of the interview as you will not do your best while nervous , nor will you be able to correct mistakes easily or make changes . |
| 11 | After such drawings became fashionable ( and thus more expensive ) in recent years , Bean had been concentrating on filling in gaps in the Metropolitan 's collection of nineteenth-century French drawings , purchasing sheets by the academic painters Henri Lehmann , Isadore Pils , Ferdinand Cormon and Hippolyte Flandrin . |
| 12 | Peter set up Nottinghamshire 's library in the winter of 1978–79 with the assistance of then chairman Dick Milnes : ‘ I spent the winter filling in gaps in the collection and disposing of the duplicates . |
| 13 | My hon. Friend the Member for Norfolk , North ( Mr. Howell ) spoke recently on the radio about his idea of paying , say , £100 a week to people joining a community task force , enabling them to obtain work experience and contribute to society , which does not simply mean filling in holes in the road but involves going in for a range of useful activities , from working on environmental improvements to caring for the vulnerable in society . |
| 14 | At 9.20 , PC Foster was filling in reports at the Police Station , Windsor . |
| 15 | It is essentially a melodic instrument and , though holding-notes in music of light calibre are charming in effect ( especially from or thereabouts with the exception — save in the hands of first-class players — of C ) it can not efface itself sufficiently to carry out the menial task of ‘ filling in notes of the harmony ’ in block writing . |
| 16 | Fill in details about the present state of the room in the first column ; then what you would like or propose to do about it in the second , and finally , in the last column , what it 's going to cost you . |
| 17 | Copy the cashing-up slip on page 76 , and fill in details for the following . |
| 18 | DETECTIVES trying to fill in gaps in the ‘ missing 23 hours ’ of murdered pensioner Doris Shelley have issued hi-tech photofits of two men they want to interview . |
| 19 | This will , however , still leave open the possibilities of using ‘ fringe ’ media to fill in gaps in the campaign or , indeed , of making an imaginative use of an alternative medium which would otherwise be discarded . |
| 20 | Top up insurance can not be obtained with unlimited cover , and may be made subject to certain other conditions , eg the exclusion of indemnity in respect of claims brought in courts in the USA . |
| 21 | We also , in the Broadcasting Act , brought in sanctions against the transmission of offensive satellite broadcasts from abroad , and made it an offence for advertisers and equipment suppliers to support such programmes . |
| 22 | At first wind pumps were used , then steam pumps which used coal brought in barges along the rivers and canals . |
| 23 | A day of B westerns brought in fans by the droves . |
| 24 | One local says helicopters brought in reinforcements to the isolated rural area an hour before the shooting began . |
| 25 | I notice she has brought in reinforcements in the person of Villette . ’ |
| 26 | No well more or less the branches had the opportunity to send in resolutions to the national agreement which were dealt with at conference . |
| 27 | This is a Greek work for love , and so instead of celebrating the eucharist , we shared this meal of love and friendship which brought in themes of the past two days — seizing the day . |
| 28 | It ca n't reverse the effects of processing — hair is made of dead cells and ca n't ‘ heal ’ — but conditioner can temporarily fill in cracks in the hair shaft , smooth cuticles and coat hair with a moisturising film . |
| 29 | Friends of the Earth 's Campaigns Director , Andrew Lees , claimed that the advocate general 's opinion " points to the government 's failure to bring in controls over the use of artificial fertilizers , the root cause of this illegal problem " . |
| 30 | He struggled to bring in attractions like the popular singer Sandie Shaw but the ballroom was in trouble . |