Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] in [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The incident was one of many domestic crises which crowded in upon the royal couple in those tumultuous early days . |
| 2 | Charles remembered from working on The Strutters with him that George had always had an approximate approach to the text , relying , as did so many television actors , on a sort of paraphrase of the speeches which homed in on the right cue . |
| 3 | In fact , it was the extra revenue she brought in at the baby end that enabled the charity to open up units for cervical cancer , and fund other research into unappealing but equally vital conditions . |
| 4 | A considerable amount of time was spent in assessing the answers to the two questionnaires you filled in during the year ; the proposed programme reflects your wishes . |
| 5 | He made it a rule that the work which flowed in during the course of the day had to be dealt with during that day , unless there was a very good reason . ’ |
| 6 | A fair number of final bids which came in under the reserve price were later accepted . |
| 7 | The father-of-three from Whiston ( right ) was one of the visitors who dropped in at the Pumphouse yesterday where a Drinkwise Fun Day was underway . |
| 8 | Garotting gangs were said to work in threes — a ‘ front stall ’ and a ‘ back-stall ’ who acted is look-outs — and a ‘ nasty ’ man' who moved in from the rear : hug on' had been used by guards in the convict hulks in order to subdue troublesome prisoners , and that this was where the original garotting gangs had learned the art . |
| 9 | Or to jeer at the discredited Baltic Communists who rode in behind the thugs , proclaimed themselves in charge in Lithuania and Latvia and then scuttled for cover . |
| 10 | ‘ I think he is now a far better player than the youngster we threw in at the deep end against Wales last season . |
| 11 | At the next intersection he drew in against the left-hand wall , peering around the corner into the corridor to his left . |
| 12 | Ace in particular seemed genuinely interested in her work and , although she 'd never really been fooled into thinking his life was a hedonistic round of pleasure apart from risking his life sixteen weekends a year , she was quite surprised at the dedication he displayed in keeping fit and the work he put in behind the scenes . |
| 13 | Kelly was excellent at right back , as was Dorigo on the left : once in the first half he stepped in from the left to tidy up the ball from charging Ippo players , strolled over to the right , and set up a counter attack down the flank , all with great ease ; he looks great . |
| 14 | After just two days on the market , the software group has shot up from 70p to 113p — great news for the institutions who got in on the ground floor . |
| 15 | And then he gave order that all the windows of the towers which looked in upon the town should be closed up , that the Christians might not see what the Moors did in their houses ; and the Moors thanked him for this greatly . |
| 16 | The premature declarations of imminent victory and raising of empty hopes contained the germ of the inevitable decline in confidence which set in during the following weeks , as the news from the eastern Front told a different story . |
| 17 | He walked along the beach , past rows of low cedar huts , his bare feet kicking at the surf which swept in from the north , enjoying the cool water and the tickling sensation of sand being swept between his toes and around his ankles . |
| 18 | Before I were yeah , she was on , on war work you see on the hand grenades , that was on the , on the ground floor , of course there were a lot of old cottages er the one at the end , and erm there was something about those oh when , when we did erm er when we did erm locks for the erm hotels there were called , they used to say no they used , there would be about a hundred keys for the guests who clocked in for the er for the hotel and they would each be given a key to the same lock you see , and they used to call those keys to pass , sometimes there was more than a hundred keys to one lock but er wait for the bell or |
| 19 | The body they brought in during the night . |
| 20 | The moment he walked in at the door he knew something was very wrong . |
| 21 | When he left the Kunstgewerbeschule in 1936 he set up in Zurich as a freelance photograph , a job he fitted in between the traditional periods of military service compulsory in Switzerland , then worked for a year in the famous magazine Graphics . |
| 22 | He is also extremely wealthy , and personally worth an additional Pounds 50m , thanks to the cash he raked in during the roaring 80s . |
| 23 | We knew for definite that it was only a two bedroomed flat and that is one of the reasons we went in at the time we did , hoping that everyb e every person in that flat would be asleep . |
| 24 | Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment . |
| 25 | The glen and side of hill were closely becoming blanketed with a fine wet mist which soared in from the crest of the mountain , to shelter on the leeward side . |
| 26 | Next morning I looked in at the forge before leaving , and said goodbye to Joe , who was already hard at work . |
| 27 | It seemed the season would start happily when Mick Harford kept up the habit of scoring on his debut with a superb 84th minute strike from 20 yards which went in off the underside of the bar . |
| 28 | This week she came in with the garment — very nicely knitted but with the sleeves ( in the stocking stitch ) too short . |
| 29 | If you look at the people who went in for the Olympic Games , right up to the Second World War , erm you would call them amateurs . |
| 30 | Shrieks and whoops heralded two loinclothed South Africans who rushed in from the side cloisters with spears and animal skin tabards . |