Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [vb pp] in [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd got in amongst the sharks , filming them in a feeding frenzy . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Part of this represented a disquieting pattern which had set in since the 1960s ( see Table 2.3 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Instead of liking the look of the water , wading in carefully and finding it was wonderful , she 'd tumbled in at the deep end . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | She had called in at the office once since she left and had been greeted with pleasure . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He thought it a great feat that she had got in from the Point in an hour and a quarter . |
| 13 | Reproaching herself for not having unlocked it when she had come in from the main door , she rose quickly and went to open up . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Is she of a good family , like Mercy ? ’ asked his surprised mother , who had come in during the conversation . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They had moved in from the garden during a cold spell in November . |
| 20 | Denktash argued that UN proposals would mean that 40,000 Turkish Cypriots would be forced to leave homes they had lived in since the Turkish invasion of the island in 1974 . |
| 21 | There was one early proposal about archaeology which became a series called The Blood of the British , where they had come in with the idea of the series . |
| 22 | Old Joseph was glad he kept the Christmas cards from his son and daughter in 1987 , for every year since then he has taken them out and displayed them as if they had come in with the post . |
| 23 | He was glad that he did n't throw out the Christmas cards from his son and daughter in 1987 , for every year since he had taken them out of the suitcase on top of the wardrobe and displayed them in his own room as if they had come in with the morning post . |
| 24 | He had not returned any fulsome gratitude to his staff for all the work they had put in during the day ; but he always found it difficult to express his deeper feelings . |
| 25 | Any Radio 4 fans who settle down to ‘ The Archers ’ had a bonus on August 2nd if they stayed tuned in after the programme , because it was followed by a programme called ‘ Performing Miracles ’ and featured Sheila Dicks . |
| 26 | no did n't like how he grouted it because she said there , things like a little nick in the tile , if he 'd gone in with the grouting it would n't of shown any and he did n't |
| 27 | But William 's grandad was too busy working to notice or care , riding shotgun to a great clattering brute of a knitting machine that reminded him of the Irish cobs he 'd broken in for the brewery ; he could knit thirty fully fashioned stockings an hour , sixteen hours a day . |
| 28 | Mind , he 'd crashed in on the situation pretty damn quickly , stepping in and being nice to her almost before she had dried her eyes , trying to get her on the rebound . |
| 29 | Michael had been hitting the phone , recruiting some key staff from hotels he 'd worked in in the past . |
| 30 | He 'd got in with the punks and seen immediately what they were doing , what a renaissance this was in music . |