Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] in [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Juan Sosa , former Panamanian ambassador in Washington , said that , if the US had been ‘ more active ’ , several battalions of wavering Panamanian troops would have joined in on the rebel side . |
| 2 | A tidy desk and behind it a man who might have come in on the Saturday afternoon for extra work . |
| 3 | Ronnie must have come in through the yard door without her knowing … |
| 4 | She sat at the table and painstakingly wrote down the sums of money that should have come in for the work already done . |
| 5 | Otherwise whoever it was would probably have come in from the corridor . |
| 6 | She had not been allowed make-up ; if she had , at that age , developed any idea of herself as having rights simply by virtue of being a pretty girl , it must have crept in between the covers of some acceptable book . |
| 7 | We may have zeroed in on the difference , but so what ? |
| 8 | I found a small but perfectly-formed hailstone on my knee , which must have got in through the air vent . |