Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] in on the " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I only came in on the red , raw minute , ’ she said , ‘ so you 'll excuse me , madam . ’ |
2 | When Ceauŝescu personally came in on the act they faked a car accident and tricked up a couple of bodies for the Securitate to send back to England . |
3 | The idea of literally dropping in on the enemy and catching them unawares would have seemed attractive after several months ' idleness . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Both convergent and divergent modes of thought are necessary for a creative act to occur : the writer must actually arrange his freely associated ideas into organised prose or the scientist finally home in on the solution to a problem . |
6 | He 's just come in on the come back trail and he seems to me to be getting better and better . |
7 | Faster than a machine gun , it can reach peak rates of 200 pulses per second as the bat finally closes in on the moving target . |
8 | Most of the guests on his show live next door — they just pop in on the way home from work . |
9 | You can , you alre can very quickly focus in on the one you 're after , and you 'd be sure that was the one , and you retrieve it and it 's there . |
10 | And we always home in on the cost of a full page . |
11 | If the quality of bottom-up information was good , the algorithm could quickly home in on the correct sequence of words . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | The Welsh international Dean Saunders also got in on the hat-trick act as Derby County overturned a 2-1 deficit against Cambridge United with a 5-0 victory to leave them 6-2 overall winners . |
14 | The F–104 and T–33 also got in on the act , all are now based at Oshkosh . |
15 | Yesterday the Scottish Landowners ' Federation also got in on the act , claiming that the quota sale had confirmed fears about value . |
16 | The club scene is now inundated with New Zealand and Australian coaches , due in no small part to the success of Garryowen , current AIL champions under their New Zealand coach , my husband , Murray Kidd. the IRFU is also getting in on the act with the appointment of former All Black captain and current Wellington coach Andy Leslie to its coaching panel . |
17 | Emeryville , California-based Sybase Inc is also getting in on the act , saying that it has licensed IBM Corp 's Distributed Relational Database Architecture and plans to use it to support distributed unit of work access between IBM databases , and Sybase SQL Server and Open Client and Open Server applications . |
18 | Surviving reports and other evidence show that he also sat in on the hearing of ordinary civil litigation in at least five counties . |
19 | The group 's sound engineer , Mike Stout , deputised and also stood in on the few occasions Solowka chose to attend Leeds United matches instead of gigs . |
20 | George Bush could now cash in on the country 's post-war confidence by launching another war on the black home-front . |
21 | Network Computing Devices Inc pretty much has the dedicated X-terminal business sewn up , and the Mountain View , California company is now moving in on the personal computer X Window System emulation business with launch of PC-Xware , a single software package that it claims provides full X terminal functionality on personal computers for the first time . |
22 | Network Computing Devices Inc has the dedicated X-terminal business pretty much sewn up , and the Mountain View , California company is now moving in on the personal computer X Window System emulation business dominated by the likes of Canadian outfit Hummingbird Communications Ltd and UK firm XVision Ltd , with launch of PC-Xware , a single software package that it claims provides full X terminal functionality on personal computers for the first time . |
23 | The antibiotic mould supposedly drifting in on the wind becomes prosaic when its magic is revealed only by tedious operations in a laboratory or factory . |
24 | Wales are now getting in on the act . |
25 | We can often go in on the basis that if somebody has a problem that they want to look at that , just as frequently somebody has an interest that they want to develop , to know more about . |
26 | I began to feel I was really homing in on the answer : involuntary spasms had sent those lifeless appendages hopping about the turret like bingo balls on a current of air … until their trajectories just happened to coincide with not-wall , not-floor , not-ceiling ( which I quickly worked out was better than a one in three shot every hop ) . |
27 | Such is the state of computer technology for the registration and running of club membership lists that hobby-based clubs for children or adults like this , run by publishers , could well proliferate , and lively booksellers might do well to get in on the act . |
28 | I mean , Joan said well ma , you know make the numbers up , once you 're here come in on the second . |
29 | An example of a processing bias would be the use of a mental filter — characteristically homing in on the negative in a situation and leaving the positive out of account . |
30 | After a few attempts I found I was turning like Robby Naish for the first part of the turn , then falling in on the inside of the turn . |