Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] in [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This winsome description fits in with the descriptions of the messianic age in the book of Isaiah , with the wolf lying down with the lamb , the lion and the ox eating straw together , and the little child playing happily and fearlessly with them and even putting its little hand unhurt into the hole of the poisonous viper . |
| 2 | You 've got ta get the stu the smell goes in to the liquid then you chuck the liquid away . |
| 3 | GM schools will be able to change their character if that is what parents clearly want and the change fits in with the wider needs of the local area . |
| 4 | er he wants money coming in to the central fund er if has in two years time to face a , a trial , these allegations so be it , but meanwhile he wants the money to come in to the central fund for the reason he 's outlined |
| 5 | Stephen thought it a curious place to leave one 's car , blocking , or partly blocking , the northbound roadway , while taking it a farther ten yards on would have enabled its driver to pull in onto the bridlepath that traversed the Vale as far as the Reeve 's way . |
| 6 | Erm the volume i i is tremendous and er one worries about the effect of the surging waters on such an old construction , now we far worse than and consequently the emergency services have had to consider all sorts of alternatives , some of which you see now with the piping on , on the surface of it 's been having a good result the immediate problem , but you ca n't stop there and the emergency team have given consideration to all sorts of other possible temporary solutions in the event or that the pumping failed and er I think that 's possibly where this rumour about erm the railway line arrived but er I think Chairman I 've said enough , we all , we would all agree I think that the emergency workers have performed er I think we 're all pleased to see the army coming in erm and doing what they 've done and erm I certainly er appreciated the opportunity to come in on the old A Twenty Seven through West it took my mind back er many years I can tell you and erm I , I think congratulations all round are due , but I come back to what 's all saying and which I support as it would be a folly when the dust has settled erm to really take a an objective er position and see that er arrangements are in hand channels and things like that will not again be supercharged in the way they are . |
| 7 | But , as the striker moved in for the kill , the defender retrieved the situation with a splendid recovery tackle . |
| 8 | Sixthly , how would the possible creation of such a German unity fit in with the Helsinki process , and would it promote a constructive evolution of that process in the direction of ending the division of Europe and progressing toward integrated legal , economic , ecological , cultural , and information environments in Europe ? |
| 9 | Nineteen Cubans and Spaniards were allowed to disembark , plus three passengers with authentic visas ; the remaining 900 or so Jews waited for news of the negotiations which involved , variously , the Cuban President , his director of immigration , the shipping line , the local relief committee , the ship 's captain and a lawyer flown in from the New York headquarters of the Joint Distribution Committee . |
| 10 | I 'm grateful to you for your readiness to fall in with the proposals made , and er , I have enjoyed the opportunity to chair this A G M. The meeting is now concluded . |
| 11 | It was cold , too , an icy wind sneaking in through the thatch and through gaps in the mud wall . |
| 12 | But more important is a feeling that the sky burial fits in with the isolation and strangeness of the setting . |
| 13 | ‘ But I think it is a pointless exercise , ’ said Floy , somewhere towards morning , a thin , cold light filtering in through the windows to where he sat at a great desk , his black hair tumbled , hollows in his cheeks , his face white with fatigue . |
| 14 | The light had almost gone from the day now and the forest was becoming bathed in soft , subtle hues of the Purple Hour , Dark blue and turquoise light slanted in through the trees , turning the Wolfwood to a place of dark secret shadows and heavy ancient magic . |
| 15 | Dot peered in through the tiny curtained windows of the dolls ' house and saw quiet furnished rooms , the playroom , kitchen , parlour , waiting to be lived in , a table set for tea , beds to be slept in , armchairs to be sat on . |
| 16 | I feel er something of a stranger walking in on the Maastricht reunion er annual dinner er at the er I have to say that erm I er would n't wish to cross swords with the honourable gentleman on the detail of the Maastricht bill but certainly but certainly I 'ave to say that for many people and maybe even some people on this own side who may be prepared to admit it , the false divide between Euro sceptics and Euro fanatics is one that does n't appeal to the new generations of members and I suspect on both sides of the house , we are in our considered view in Europe and we need to make the best of it and treat Europe on its merits rather than re-live the battles of the er late seventies and early eighties . |
| 17 | A bolero for example , is really just a short cardigan with curved front edges and crossover cardigan just has extra width built in to the front pieces so that they overlap each over . |
| 18 | However , Pound 's diagnosis of Williams 's condition was surely perceptive : Williams could abide American reality ( where Pound and Eliot had to flee from it ) because , as in the admirable ‘ To Elsie ’ ( ’ The pure products of America / go crazy' ) , he remained the immigrant , the outsider looking in on the behaviour of the nation that he had been , by the sheerest accident , born to . |
| 19 | There were no windows and only a trickle of light came in through the door behind him . |
| 20 | Again , the light level was subterranean , but there were no curtains so a fair amount of yellow light came in from the streetlamps outside . |
| 21 | The car drove in through the dusty , bleached stone gates to the stone courtyard where a fountain played and cicadas buzzed noisily in the palms and jacarandas moved softly in the hot sea air . |
| 22 | Then our eyes will be firmly caught and firmly held by a bent female figure hurrying in through the door and across the room towards us . |
| 23 | The light poured in through the window of our room . |
| 24 | The City expects the Chancellor to alter but not altogether abandon the rule , effectively reducing the amount of gilt-edged stock bought in by the Bank of England . |
| 25 | Grey , uncertain light leaked in through the curtains . |
| 26 | I made my way round the house and crossed the mossy terrace to look in through the drawing-room window . |
| 27 | The C130 Hercules of RAF Transport Command , markings hurriedly painted out , stood near the end of the runway , its engines running up as a car swung in through the raised barrier , and past the RAF Regiment guard . |
| 28 | Where it seemed that this would cause injustice , equity stepped in with the doctrine of " part performance " : if the contract were partly performed , equity would not allow a statute to be used " as an engine of fraud " . |
| 29 | Led by Major Ronnie Tod , 30 men went ashore and had hardly been gone a few minutes when Dudley Clarke and the commander saw the dark outline of a boat coming in from the sea . |
| 30 | These , including tea brought in by the East India Company from China , grew from around £500,000 in value in 1700 to almost £2 million by 1770 . |