Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] in from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not take his readers back into history so much as bring Thomas Paine , William Hazlitt , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Sir Walter Scott [ qq.v. ] , and others forward , as if they had suddenly walked in from the street . |
| 2 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 3 | It was quite soon after the terrible motor accident that had crippled him for life , and she had just come in from the garden with a bunch of flowers for him . |
| 4 | ‘ This report has just come in from the Environments Officer . |
| 5 | Then , when the horse is brought out of the stable , instead of just walking quietly along ( which it would if it had just come in from the paddock ) , it is jumping out of its skin , ready to spook and shy at anything , nostrils dilated , eyes bulging , and tail hoisted high . |
| 6 | ‘ O Jesus Christ , ’ he said , looking over my shoulder as if JC had just wandered in from the garden , ‘ did you die for this boy ? ’ |
| 7 | So it thus came about that the fields , meadows , pastures and arable acres of Combsburgh were finally taken in from the waste which had existed for millenia . |
| 8 | The competitors were in various categories for judging and were to be judged by professionals specially flown in from the States . |
| 9 | for example , in Oxfordshire the statutory Education Committee was mainly composed of old-style landed Tories , but with a mixture of keen Trades Unionist members from Cowley , and some ‘ intellectuals ’ deliberately invited in from the university . |
| 10 | At Grassington the miners worked in small setts , or meers , and there were regular disputes over boundaries and underground trespass despite the presence of a Barmoot Court and Barmaster , and other customs anciently brought in from the lead districts of Derbyshire . |
| 11 | Another frequent problem is that brood mares are often brought in from the paddock about a month before the horse is due to foal , and are put in a little paddock next to the owner 's house so that ‘ an eye can be kept on her . ’ |
| 12 | Just then Alec Reid unexpectedly bustled in from the dispensary . |
| 13 | They 're obviously being continually carried in from the river water but are being taken out of the system somewhere in the marine environment . |