Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] in [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Excluding the para-military National Guard , they number only 4,400 , whereas the normal US garrison of about 10,000 men had already been augmented to 13,000 before airborne units parachuted in to secure the international airport and clear the way for further reinforcements . |
| 2 | The Finns needed pilots badly and volunteers from many nations flooded in to join the Finnish Air Force , Asa among them . |
| 3 | Other cars screamed in to fill the sudden vacuum of our wake . |
| 4 | These are the inhabitants of the second country contained within Panama : the poor slum dwellers of Colon and Panama City , many of them black ( and many still English-speaking ) , descendants of the Caribbean workers brought in to build the inter-oceanic means of communication , first the railway , then the canal . |
| 5 | This creative period was followed by an exploitive period in which many theoretical physicists moved in to apply the new mechanics to a host of significant problems . |
| 6 | Not until the machines moved in to throw a great concrete runway across the fields , and buildings grew like mushrooms overnight and were camouflaged brown and black and green , and the bombers roared in , and Rob came … |