Example sentences of "[verb] in [prep] a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Only got in for a few minutes as half the church was there . |
2 | Take this tiny sample : Leopold Bloom , the Dublin Jew , with his touching mixture of timorousness and courage , has looked in for a few moments at a church as a Mass is ending . |
3 | The reader in men and masculinity from Bradford University conjured up images for me of a muscular man walking in with a few four-packs of larger under his arms ready to address BASW delegates . |
4 | We sailed into a murky , airless dawn veiled by the thin drizzle of a Scotch Mist , and I turned in for a few hours . |
5 | Contentedly I went below and turned in for a few hours , leaving my colleague to navigate . |
6 | ‘ Like Dorigo and Stuart Pearce , I like to weigh in with a few goals and in pre-season I joked with the lads that I 'd get 15 this year . |
7 | Ramesh K was then brought in for a few minutes . |
8 | After the fish had settled in for a few days , one that I had thought to be a male showed signs of filling eggs , and developed a bright yellow patch on her belly . |
9 | I 've only popped in for a few minutes . |
10 | Do you think I might come in for a few minutes and talk to you about Matilda ? ’ |
11 | Institutionalism sets in after a few months , and active people slow down and soon learn not to complain . |
12 | Andy had n't meant any more than his pressing need to stay in for a few weeks till he had made more headway with his revision . |
13 | Even so , it was not unusual for friends and kinsmen to drop in for a few minutes , an hour , to see the news or a comedy . |