Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] in [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's basically when I got in with a guy in Memphis and we started Fernwood Records , and I got interested in the engineering side of it . |
| 2 | In the end , I got in through a hole in the side , but it was n't easy . |
| 3 | I charged in like a bull . |
| 4 | ‘ I came in for a lot of criticism but I know in my heart that the good things I did there were very conveniently swept under the carpet at the time . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I came in for a lot of adulation during my racing days — groupies . |
| 6 | On Saturday 4 June , I came in from a morning 's canvassing in Sutton Coldfield to find an urgent message to call Conservative Central Office . |
| 7 | I PULLED in to a diner about five miles short of Waldron and took aboard some fried ham and a couple of eggs sunny side up . |
| 8 | When I went into Panama I needed a visa , I went in without a visa . |
| 9 | I I certainly did n't go in in in in with a rank on my shoulder , I went in as a recruit . |
| 10 | ‘ I had a cartilage operation three and a half years ago , and I went in for a tackle just before Christmas and damaged it again . |
| 11 | I went in for a tackle with Brian Mooney and I came off worse because I broke my right leg . |
| 12 | While I 'm digging that garden she used to go out roll in the trench what I 'd dug and soon as I went in for a drink she was in there before me ! |
| 13 | I mean , I ended up staying a month at some bloke 's house after I went in for a pack of strings ! |
| 14 | So I went in for a scholarship with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts . |
| 15 | ‘ While I was enquiring for you I fell in with a party of men who are heading in my direction shortly . |
| 16 | I sat in on a board meeting the week before last and the Manager 's alleged report was nothing more than a series of orders closely followed by a succession of demands . |
| 17 | ‘ I nipped in for a look . |
| 18 | She lived in as a bride . |
| 19 | With ffeatherstonehaugh 's , if you came in as a guest and they liked you , you could be elected by acclamation on the spot . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ You came in with a key . ’ |
| 21 | You came in like a maniac , moving against the flow of traffic , and you 've taken my place ! ’ |
| 22 | At least have some wine , to put the colour back in your face ; you came in like a ghost . |
| 23 | She came in with a light , wary step , made a deep obeisance just within the doorway , and then advanced to the prince 's chair and sank at his feet , touching her lips to his proffered hand . |
| 24 | She cut in on a station wagon , forcing the driver to brake heavily , then made fifty yards on the hard shoulder . |
| 25 | Summoning up all her courage , she keeked in through a window and was startled to see a pair of large horns . |
| 26 | She pulled in at a motorway service station and decided on lunch . |
| 27 | It was one of those cosmic accidents which are no accident , that the next day , when she called in at a bookshop to look for some more Morris titles , she should find on the same shelf the total output of Professor M. L. Vaughan ; and among the rest his : Aurae Phiala : A Pleasure City of the Second Century A.D. She took it down and opened it at random , and the prose caught her by its incandescent fervour . |
| 28 | The cool of the garden greeted you as you went in with a breath as welcome as that of the north wind at the top of a house during the season of akhet . |
| 29 | On her way , she passed the room with the light on , and she looked in with a stab of surprised longing at the cosy scene inside . |
| 30 | She went in for a drink one time , she liked a few drinks around midday , she used to say it helped the long hot afternoons slide by , ’ and Nathan smiled to himself , because he could hear her saying it . |