Example sentences of "in [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said I 'll go round the back and I said I can get in through that window for ya , I said well I 'll have to force it , what d' ya mean force it ? |
| 2 | ‘ Every morning at half-past ten he would walk in through that door . |
| 3 | Look forgive me and were the first of the two troops going in through that door . |
| 4 | They 're gon na go in through that door the second it goes down , they were n't loitering at the end of the passage , they were right by the door were n't they ? |
| 5 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 6 | Since your fund is initially penniless , if you cash it in during this period ( if you decide not to have an endowment mortgage any more ) you will get little or no return for your investment . |
| 7 | It can only come in as some kind of ‘ emergent property ’ of all these causal interactions . |
| 8 | Claims for damages against British accountancy firms have proliferated since the 1970s , when the aggressively litigious environment that US accountants had operated in for many years spread to the UK . |
| 9 | When the band is removed from the machine there will be two ends of yarn to sew in for each buttonhole . |
| 10 | Only one copy of Section 1 needs to be filled in , but ideally separate copies of Sections 2 , 3 and 4 should be filled in for each course taught in the appropriate field . |
| 11 | And we could really , add in for each organism in different weights the significance of each of the factors on each side . |
| 12 | You have to produce a return transatlantic ticket and your passport both when buying the airpass and when checking in for each flight . |
| 13 | ‘ And yet he wore a collar and tie , ’ put in Kathleen , tipping Madeira cake crumbs deftly from her plate into the little blue tin always brought in for that purpose with the tea trolley . |
| 14 | We had actually got that in for that September |
| 15 | Paul Smith , 42-year-old veteran Terry Roberts and last season 's skipper Jon Curry fill in for that trio . |
| 16 | I 'll come in the morning instead or whatever , erm but quite often it means if they 're coming in they say , well I 'll be in town anyway I 'll come in for that hour |
| 17 | ‘ What 's more , Joe Wallace was so pissed that night 'e did n't 'ave an inklin' who 'e was talkin' to or what pub 'e was in for that matter , so there 's no come-back from 'im at least . |
| 18 | Well I mean that was n't in for that reason . |
| 19 | Because when I was thinking about trying to talking to you today , I thought although we 've worked quite a lot with people along this group , you might be sitting here and thinking well you do n't seem to be doing any specific work for and with old people erm , well I think your quite independent and can work out your right that , but one of the things this front line review erm it erm , it 's considering Council front line services under various headings , one of which is Retired Services that the Council provide as a group , now the leader of the Council wants to erm , get public views on how we look at these services , so , and that 's , that 's individuals and groups and one of the things that you might like to think about and I 'm that we as a local government unit who are servicing this review can help you with , is to consider how you might want to fee in for that review , erm and , and consider this , that the re-services for retired people , that the Council provides that you use and basically whether you use that , or service , we want to hear that , the Council would need to know that cos were gon na be making decisions about whether or not they should continue in this front line review erm , and erm , you know , or what things you would , what , what are your questions on about those services , what other things you would like to see provided , things like that and I thing this group could quite easily make a collective representation , a collective submission to that process then you could do it as individual 's as well , so that , that exercise it , it should be over by the eleventh of October it starts on the sixth of September . |
| 20 | Present employment law restricts the effect of such a covenant in a service agreement , but if inserted in the subscription and shareholders ' agreement , it is more likely to be enforceable. ( 3 ) The service agreement will be for a fixed term so that the managers are locked in for that period . |
| 21 | I voted for this government because they said they were n't going to go in for that sort of rubbish . |
| 22 | I wonder more people do n't go in for that sort of thing . |
| 23 | ‘ Stop fussing , ’ said Joe , ‘ I do n't go in for that sort of thing . |
| 24 | ‘ You can get a good view of the moonlight on the lake , if you go in for that sort of thing . |
| 25 | My family did n't go in for that sort of thing . |
| 26 | I gather there are plenty of crackpots who go in for that sort of thing . |
| 27 | Inspection has come in for much discussion today as a major part of the Bill . |
| 28 | While councillors came in for much criticism for being representative , health professionals had similar difficulties . |
| 29 | Farming comes in for much criticism , largely it appears because farmers have responded to the need to make a livelihood from the land by producing more primary commodities using industrial techniques . |
| 30 | But the non-conformists did n't go in for much decoration . |