Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] in [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The door was open and I did hear that much when I passed to go in to the ladies ' toilet . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd got in amongst the sharks , filming them in a feeding frenzy . ’ |
| 3 | I happened to look in on the Private Office before going home in order to see whether there was anything I ought to take account of . |
| 4 | so we started called her lip , but that happened before I got there so , as I got there it just like , as I joined got in with the regulars it started to peter out a bit , but I got fooled with a couple of times I thought they were taking the piss , alright Lynn how you doing , you know , still . |
| 5 | When mum and I had checked in at the travel desk and given in our suit cases we were able to wander around and have something to eat until our flight was called out . |
| 6 | As happens in any new venture , I discovered that the hours I had to put in at the beginning seemed to outnumber those available in any day . |
| 7 | I were just so psyched up on Wednesday and then I had to go in on the Friday before so I did n't |
| 8 | But with Karen such frankness was out of the question , and without her cooperation , getting rid of Dennis looked like just another of the many pipe-dreams I had indulged in over the years . |
| 9 | Next moment the swirling fog in the alley was suddenly lit to a brilliant white by the head lamps of the car which came roaring in at the far end . |
| 10 | Part of this represented a disquieting pattern which had set in since the 1960s ( see Table 2.3 ) . |
| 11 | Probably the paper did n't even have wire service , and if it did , he 'd bet a dime that anything which had come in about the book 's author had simply been buried in the chaos then reigning in the newspaper office . |
| 12 | Instead of liking the look of the water , wading in carefully and finding it was wonderful , she 'd tumbled in at the deep end . |
| 13 | She was cracking those damn peppermints in her back teeth to disguise the fact she 'd called in at the Oyster Bar on her way up . ’ |
| 14 | I just wanted the fight to stop before you began wading in with the rucksack . ’ |
| 15 | Remembering Philippe Bonard 's invitation to use the pool whenever she wished , she decided to call in at the Auberge de la Fontaine and pick up her swimming costume . |
| 16 | She had called in at the office once since she left and had been greeted with pleasure . |
| 17 | The fire by which we sat , Mrs Browning in front , I to one side , consisted mainly of a branch of beech which she had brought in from the woods : the thick end was in the fireplace , surrounded by burning twigs cosseted into flame by Mrs Browning , who puffed upon them with a pair of leather bellows when they faltered , and the other end , in shape and size rather like the antlers of a deer , reached out into the room . |
| 18 | By a coincidence the letter had been waiting for her on her dressing-table when she had got in from the pictures the previous night , just after she had been thinking and talking of Hilda . |
| 19 | He thought it a great feat that she had got in from the Point in an hour and a quarter . |
| 20 | Reproaching herself for not having unlocked it when she had come in from the main door , she rose quickly and went to open up . |
| 21 | Her father , finding in her many of the qualities he had admired in her mother , had given her far greater freedom from the harem than was normal and from childhood she had sat in on the political and intellectual discussions her father had with his cronies . |
| 22 | The Acting Reporter from Strathclyde , Gordon Sloan , who had filled in for the past year , would continue to look after the cases with which he had been involved . |
| 23 | It had been Dr Rolleston 's great sorrow that he had not been able to help children who had come in with the dreaded Infantile Paralysis , not that any other professor in Europe had been able to do better than by careful nursing stop the paralysis spreading . |
| 24 | ‘ Is she of a good family , like Mercy ? ’ asked his surprised mother , who had come in during the conversation . |
| 25 | He became aware of the disapproving looks his noisy party were receiving from some of the older locals who had drifted in over the last hour . |
| 26 | She longed to give in to the desire in his eyes and her own body 's urging . |
| 27 | She wanted to get in off the doorstep . |
| 28 | Philippa had come early because she wanted to get in in the hope of finding an earring she had lost , before the cleaner started on the room . |
| 29 | She suggested calling in on the local correspondent to see what his views were . |
| 30 | After two exhausting hours we had to give in to the flames . |