Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [verb] in [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In any case , the guards kept popping in around news time .
2 All media , apart from government-controlled radio and television , have been totally silenced , and Haïtians caught tuning in to Voice of America broadcasts are arrested and beaten .
3 However , reports of severe damage and high casualty figures began to come in from communities situated closer to the ‘ quake 's epicentre , and they learned that the emergency services were bringing many of the most badly injured victims in to the capital .
4 Siegfried Kordus , the Mecklenburg police chief in charge ( who was later replaced ) , maintained that the attacks had been co-ordinated by citizens ' band radio and that protesters had driven in from Berlin , Hamburg and other towns .
5 As he spoke , details continued to pour in of demonstrations and police brutality matched only by the harshly-suppressed 1953 uprising .
6 ‘ A few minutes later two guys came running in with masks on they were both shouting and swearing and told me to lie on the ground .
7 Where once dockers and carmen had gone in for breakfast or a midday meal they now sat around drinking mugs of tea and eating slices of toast and dripping .
8 In a week or so you would have thought a crowd of angels had wafted in from putney singing my name and crying ‘ Hosanna ! ’
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