Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] in [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hard to feel sorry for the laird , who would have watched the sweating workers from his window , hands in pockets , listening for the doorbell in case the king changed his mind and dropped in for a scone . |
| 2 | Ellwood walked to his car and got in like a man with a purpose accomplished . |
| 3 | Pallanza lies in the centre of its west bank — a busy , friendly , village-like town stretched along a lakeside promenade and nestled in among a mass of scenic loveliness . |
| 4 | With a pixel refresh rate of 320 million per second , SGI claims it can deliver the same amount of data to a screen in one second as appears in during a typical 30 second television advertisement . |
| 5 | Add the grated orange rind and the sherry or milk and fold in with a large spoon . |
| 6 | She struggled and was nearly countered , but then negated Wu 's defence and slipped in for a one-armed shoulder throw . |
| 7 | After leaving the letter in a drawer she had gone to a nearby town and booked in at a hotel . |
| 8 | The price of oil would probably rise to more than $50 a barrel and dig in for a stay of some months . |
| 9 | I did it during the week and came in on a Saturday for myself . |
| 10 | In a remnant of old forest I came on some grazing deer and quickly dropped to ground and crawled in under a small bank where I was able to stay out of sight , out of smell , and enjoy a very good look at the herd . |
| 11 | He felt that he knew the English character and , although he would n't hurt Ludovico by articulating it , he was sure that the sort of English girl who would get off a train and move in with a stranger would very soon be travelling on . |
| 12 | A dynamic allocation of exactly the right amount of memory for the word can not be implemented because the structure needs to be contiguous in memory for the fast saving and reading in from a file ( as discussed in section 3.3.6 ) . |
| 13 | Jacqueline had given birth to Tommy 's daughter and moved in with a man called Steve Branch , who was living on Mill Farm Close . |
| 14 | He stopped at the door and stared in for a minute . |
| 15 | I was escorted to the fifth floor and shown in to a riverside suite which was named after Sir Charles Chaplin , because he always used to stay there when he visited London . |
| 16 | Having been stung in a similar situation in their last league game when Gregor McKechnie called their bluff over a kickable penalty and scuttled in for a try , Tukalo tried to do likewise after Joe Munro had been caught offside in the Watsonian 22 , as Scott Hastings was called to arms to police Linton . |
| 17 | If an aspiring agent does n't go to college or university , there is no reason why he or she ca n't apply to an agency and come in as a very junior person to work their way up . |
| 18 | There was a garden hazed over by sunlight and held in by a dome . |