Example sentences of "[vb past] in the " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Great stuff , Miranda , ’ the thin fair man would say , when she handed in the transcript . |
| 32 | The door opened and he handed in the jiffy bag . |
| 33 | He told me that he got an awful rocket from the Director of Accounts when he handed in the bill which worked out at several hundred pounds — and here we are talking of the year 1946 ! |
| 34 | Mungo breathed in the rich animal smell as they followed Mr Zamoyski through to the back room . |
| 35 | Turning into the stable where he had helped Jos , he breathed in the forest smell of the logs which Jos had chopped and he had piled . |
| 36 | Sam looked out over the flooding river and breathed in the damp smell of the morning as if testing wine for bouquet , and I thought that he lived through his senses to a much greater degree than I did and was intensely alive in his direct approach to sex and his disregard of danger . |
| 37 | She breathed in the combination of scents they and other nameless varieties created , aware of the moths hovering above the blooms and the sound of small birds in the climbing shrubs against the wall . |
| 38 | Sam breathed in the scents of fabulous nameless blooms , massed motionless , cold and in every variant of grey imaginable in the moonlight . |
| 39 | When I reached the spot , I breathed in the herb 's mint/ammonia vapours and stared over the landscape . |
| 40 | As always , the risk element was the icing on the cake as far as he was concerned He breathed in the fine night air and hummed the tune of Colonel Bogey in time with his silent footsteps . |
| 41 | As Yeremi followed him , he breathed in the dust of death , motes from the pulverized bones . |
| 42 | Emily lifted her head and breathed in the sweet March air , it was good to stand in the garden of Summer Lodge looking out over a tranquil sea with timid waves reaching for the shore . |
| 43 | Cauterets claims to have a more plentiful supply of sulphurous waters than any other spa on earth , to the tune of a million and a half health-giving litres a day , and this is a claim you will not wish to dispute once you have pushed open the swing doors to the neo-Roman ‘ Baths of Caesar ’ and breathed in the warm and all too recognizably sulphur-laden air . |
| 44 | She breathed in the cool Japanese atmosphere she had worked to create for him , looked at the slatted chairs , the pale greys , the yellows . |
| 45 | The more she saw of Alain 's mother and the more she breathed in the atmosphere of this house , the more she felt outside it all , an intruder who was here to rock the peace of the place , to alter their lives . |
| 46 | Marcus greedily breathed in the fresh air . |
| 47 | She rubbed her cheek against his chest and breathed in the clean male scent of him . |
| 48 | Going out on to Des Voeux , she breathed in the hot , humid air . |
| 49 | ‘ Clever stuff , ’ exclaimed Tom as Edith brought in the puddings . |
| 50 | If Soren Kierkegaard vitiated the easy-going philosophical idealism of his day with his heavily personalised challenges to it ; if von Rochau brought in the concept of Realpolitik to Bismarck 's Germany ; and if Karl Barth ushered in ‘ Crisis Theology ’ in Switzerland ; it is at least arguable that Irving Layton fathered ‘ Crisis Poetry ’ in Canada : poetry that demanded a decision , a response ; that cut through the emollient patter and posed a rough demand on the reader or hearer . |
| 51 | Swinburne read Greek and took English metric in hand ; Rossetti brought in the Italian primitives ; Fitzgerald made the only good poem of the time that has gone to the PeoPle ; it is called , and is to a great extent , a translation or mistranslation . |
| 52 | Lincoln brought in the big guns of William Temple to get bishop and rector to release the curate before the time . |
| 53 | Marjorie does the books ; their son John runs the shop and helps with the coaching ; his wife Janie does the typing , and when I was in the office the lad who brought in the post said ‘ There you are , Grandad ’ and turned out to be John 's son , James . |
| 54 | The man told him in sarcastic tones that he could have his £9 back at any time if he brought in the young lady in the photograph . |
| 55 | At that time the bones of a saint were important : the Abbeys would vie with each other to see who could claim to have the best holy relics , because bones performed miracles , which brought in the visitors . ’ |
| 56 | A sterling crisis in 1976 brought in the IMF , effectively as overseers of the economy . |
| 57 | Knowing this to be his likely mood when I brought in the tea yesterday afternoon , and being aware of his general propensity to talk with me in a bantering tone at such moments , it would certainly have been wiser not to have mentioned Miss Kenton at all . |
| 58 | She recalled now that this was the one who had explained to his mother what clandestinely meant , and he , too , was the one who brought in the law when confronted by the policeman . |
| 59 | Jesus Christ brought in the Piscean Age ( hence , it is alleged , the ichthus fish sign of the new church and the numerous allusions to fishermen being turned into fishers of men ) . |
| 60 | After two and a half years , Mr Lawrence brought in the consultants , McKinsey & Co . |