Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] in [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Village communities anywhere are notoriously conservative , so when two young cyclists wandered in to the Gasthof Löwen with shoulder-length hair and matching headbands , they received some doubtful glances from the table where five farm-workers sat steadily drinking their way through the evening . |
| 2 | Three of his goals bounced in off the posts . |
| 3 | Waves poured in like the ocean . |
| 4 | When two police cars raced in through the school gates she hid behind a wall . |
| 5 | There was the sound of running feet outside and the gate guards piled in through the crack . |
| 6 | One of soccer 's great trouble-shooters clocked in at the Cadbury 's chocolate factory where Rovers train but the last thing that greeted him was the sweet smell of success . |
| 7 | Even their parents got in on the act , when the Mercedes hired to take them to the reception blew up . |
| 8 | Military chaplains moved in with the troops , and news of the Christian community came to us through them . |
| 9 | Bolton-born Bannister , who dwarfs influential team-mate Alton Byrd by 19 inches , is so huge he gets all his clothes and shoes shipped in from the States by mail order . |
| 10 | It reached a peak as miners surged in against the riot shields . |
| 11 | Some of the working- and lower-middle-class people who made up the bulk of the urban populace had relatives in the villages , but transport to and from the countryside was erratic and there was always the danger that food-parcels sent in from the villages would be intercepted and confiscated . |
| 12 | The four sets of parents went in to the Panel separately , although they were to be treated as one case . |
| 13 | The cemetery had emptied of people , the cold winds swept in from the sea and the still bare branches of the trees shivered like thin fingers against the dark sky . |
| 14 | Two riders turned in at the approach to the castle , the rest of the cavalcade swept onward through the gate , flung open to give them passage , and vanished in a flurry of spume and fine mud along the foregate . |
| 15 | In every Legion Regiment , the English-speaking people stuck together in tight groups , drinking together , socialising together and looking after each other ; Australians , South Africans and Canadians joined in with the club , which evolved its own codes of conduct and unspoken rules of behaviour . |
| 16 | Later European governments got in on the act and set about invading and colonizing large chunks of the globe . |
| 17 | As the smoke cleared and the dust settled , two fighter planes came in over the fields and circled the remains of the barn . |
| 18 | He had wandered away along the narrow trodden path through the grass while they were talking , to the small hollow cove where boats came in to the abbey meadows . |
| 19 | I saw Sybil on ‘ Top of the Pops ’ the day before I started work on the book and she was wearing a gold bra top , huge fake-gold earrings and black trousers pulled in at the waist . |
| 20 | The doves flew in at the mouths and made their nests inside . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He was hustled away by some of the extra police officers drafted in for the case . |
| 23 | After the home club and Southend took the top places , Colchester Joggers got in on the act with the team bronze , a first for the club over this distance . |
| 24 | cows and things came in to the butchers . |
| 25 | Firstly , donations of large quantities came in throughout the year enabling sorting , packeting , pricing , etc. , to be put in hand in good time . |
| 26 | The seventy seven year old collapsed after five police officers clambered in through the window to arrest her grandson . |
| 27 | A dish he calls Maltese curry — an unlikely and most interesting mixture of onions , tomatoes and fruit with eggs mixed in at the end of the cooking , rather in the pipérade manner — was another recipe he repeated in several of his books . |
| 28 | In the middle of the night one of Kiku 's cats got in among the dogs and , when Burun got up to see what was causing the commotion , he found Suragai trying to save the animal . |
| 29 | An advance group of undergraduates moved in for the Michaelmas Term . |
| 30 | Gifts poured in for the youngster . |