Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb past] in [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought he was going to kiss her , but it did n't happen , because the door was pushed open and the clerk came in with a pile of reports from other departments . |
| 2 | On Wednesday evening , the Admiral looked in on the club after dinner and Amiss heard him say goodnight to the five , remarking that he had a little work to do in the office , after which he would get back home and turn in : he looked forward to seeing them the following day . |
| 3 | But , as the striker moved in for the kill , the defender retrieved the situation with a splendid recovery tackle . |
| 4 | The parrot joined in with a screech of pleasure . |
| 5 | The size of the holes , and the thickness of the surrounding bubbles of enriched galaxy formation , depend on the details of the perturbations fed in to the idealised model calculations , and this offers hope that better observations of these holes in the Universe may reveal information about the kinds of disturbances that made the big bang of creation develop irregularly . |
| 6 | Another British survivor told how the roof caved in before a sheet of flames spread across the fuselage , cutting him off from his wife . |
| 7 | At Christmas we announced the Sainsbury's/BBC Good Food Wine Taster of the Year competition , and the entries poured in by the thousand . |
| 8 | The light poured in through the window of our room . |
| 9 | On the last day Seve birdied the first hole and Hale took a six on the second , I can remember the scoring because in those days I had to mark all the cards , and I remember putting Irwin down for a six — and then the card blew in to the bunker on the second and I had to go chasing after it . |
| 10 | Mickey Aronson shouted as the President sat in behind the wheel . |
| 11 | The car drove in through the dusty , bleached stone gates to the stone courtyard where a fountain played and cicadas buzzed noisily in the palms and jacarandas moved softly in the hot sea air . |
| 12 | The listeners tuned in to the German wavelengths because they found Joyce amusing unintentionally or for his anecdotes , or else because they wished to hear both sides of the argument , or even because they did not trust their own authorities to tell them the whole truth . |
| 13 | The liner went in with no hassle at all , and I was grateful for Absat 's superior flexibility when the hose went on and I went into the rapidly filling hole to smooth out the creases . |
| 14 | She cradled Ari 's head in her lap as the girl gave in to the overwhelming sensations crashing through her nervous system . |
| 15 | I had half-managed to con a colleague in the Press-box into believing that the Brewongle Stand was named after an old left-arm spinner from Parramatta named Bluey Brewongle when I saw the dark-green uniforms emerging from the pavilion , and the emotions crowded in with a sudden impact . |
| 16 | In the morning the sun came in at the window and woke me . |
| 17 | It was still warm during the day , and the sun came in over the trees of the forest outside the camp . |
| 18 | The sun shone in at the science-room window . |
| 19 | The coach drew in outside the Thamesside theatre and disgorged us . |
| 20 | The boy came in through the back carrying Russell 's blanket roll and carbine and put them down on the passenger bench . |
| 21 | He grabbed Joseph roughly by the shoulder as the boy peered in at the window , and pulled him away . |
| 22 | He recalls that the Chancellor came in to the store at around 5pm , and stands by this approximate time even though he is well aware that Mr Lamont was then in a Treasury Select Committee at the House of Commons . |
| 23 | The teacher came in like a colossus and the class shrank into a shivering line . |
| 24 | When the tax came in at the beginning of 1863 , vodka became cheaper and more readily available , state revenues held up , and the former monopolists of the retail trade began to invest their accumulated capital in railways , banks and mines . |
| 25 | The party of the workers fell in behind the policy of foreign bankers , which meant that it fell in behind high unemployment caused by high interest rates . |
| 26 | The spring of 1915 thus found the Allies dug in opposite the German Army , which had been halted on the Marne . |
| 27 | The doves flew in at the mouths and made their nests inside . |
| 28 | Then the noise of a car grinding up the other side of the hill broke in upon the blessed peace of their embrace , and separated them . |
| 29 | The cab swerved in towards the kerb with a squeal of brakes . |
| 30 | The whole tractor was painted in Case IH colours to celebrate its IH ancestry and the cab plumbed in to the rest of the tractor . |