Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb past] in [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 I discussed the format of the diet with various callers and then one of my members came in to the shop .
2 My mother dashed in from the kitchen , ‘ Norman , there 's no excuse for that . ’
3 Even their parents got in on the act , when the Mercedes hired to take them to the reception blew up .
4 Her father came in through the back door .
5 Her brother came in with the coffee and sandwiches and Seru began to eat .
6 Three of his goals bounced in off the posts .
7 His mother came in from the kitchen to ask if we 'd like cheese or fresh cheese with cream .
8 Leeman plugged away with constant strikes and both his colleagues joined in on the 17th end when continued Brackley accuracy brought the game to a premature conclusion .
9 He was in the middle of getting undressed as his brother walked in with the paper .
10 Moxon snipped off the padlock , his partner went in on the roll , coming to his feet on the dusty floor inside the barn with his handgun drawn .
11 Back home , he dreamt , he filled the whole flat with buckets of earth , even filled soup dishes and the kettle and the wineglasses with soil , and spent hours watering them and moving them carefully around every day , carrying them from room to room so that they would be struck in turn by whatever sunshine came in through the different windows at different times of the day , making sure they were kept warm .
12 We could put ourselves in three lots of two and your mum came in with the three pizzas we 'd get one between us so we get a half .
13 What about Jane Austen , Dr Sheila Lawlor demanded , in the response to our Report sent in to the NCC by the right-wing Centre for Policy Studies .
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