Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] in [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The door was open and I did hear that much when I passed to go in to the ladies ' toilet . |
| 2 | I could feel my heart going boom-ba-di-boom — imagined my heart when it was dead , all its auricles and ventricles shrinking and wrinkling like burst balloons after my head got bashed in on the rocks . |
| 3 | Five hundred lines to anyone caught sneaking in before the bell ! ’ |
| 4 | The boy tried to move in with the grandparents . |
| 5 | But William 's grandad was too busy working to notice or care , riding shotgun to a great clattering brute of a knitting machine that reminded him of the Irish cobs he 'd broken in for the brewery ; he could knit thirty fully fashioned stockings an hour , sixteen hours a day . |
| 6 | Scraps of paper , issuing from the city , came twirling in through the cab window . |
| 7 | As he entered the paved courtyard the rain came whipping in from the sea , lashing against the car and obliterating everything . |
| 8 | It just seemed to fit in with the story and the early part of your visit about somebody getting killed . ’ |
| 9 | Sonia said : ‘ It seemed to fit in with the spirit of the Festival — how political change in history is articulated — and celebrated the most remarkable use of language , worldwide . |
| 10 | He 'd got in with the punks and seen immediately what they were doing , what a renaissance this was in music . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd got in amongst the sharks , filming them in a feeding frenzy . ’ |
| 12 | Well , your mother came rushing in from the car with a rare display of energy and snatched it from the fellow 's hands . |
| 13 | The glass exploded outwards and rain suddenly came pouring in through the hole . |
| 14 | Mind , he 'd crashed in on the situation pretty damn quickly , stepping in and being nice to her almost before she had dried her eyes , trying to get her on the rebound . |
| 15 | In quick succession , Sandy Lyle , Faldo twice and then , last year , Ian Woosnam came riding in on the crest of a British tidal wave . |
| 16 | As they staggered out of their tepees and another faultless day came smooching in from the Pacific , they would sniff the honeyed air and ask one another what they 'd got up to the previous night . |
| 17 | Connon 's voice came drifting in from the hall . |
| 18 | She was cracking those damn peppermints in her back teeth to disguise the fact she 'd called in at the Oyster Bar on her way up . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ We 're in luck , ’ said Jonna , as Ned came panting in at the doorway with an armful of heavily-foliaged twigs . |
| 20 | Phil came running in to the street saying : ‘ He shot my granddad ’ . |
| 21 | He came running in from the dispensary , pulling up his trousers , still held up by his MCC tie , the end of his stethoscope bouncing off his fat tummy . |
| 22 | A bee came buzzing in under the roof . |
| 23 | no did n't like how he grouted it because she said there , things like a little nick in the tile , if he 'd gone in with the grouting it would n't of shown any and he did n't |
| 24 | Michael had been hitting the phone , recruiting some key staff from hotels he 'd worked in in the past . |
| 25 | I 'd come in in the middle of something . |
| 26 | Before the little vole could answer , four mallard ducks came sliding in across the water . |
| 27 | so we started called her lip , but that happened before I got there so , as I got there it just like , as I joined got in with the regulars it started to peter out a bit , but I got fooled with a couple of times I thought they were taking the piss , alright Lynn how you doing , you know , still . |
| 28 | I just wanted the fight to stop before you began wading in with the rucksack . ’ |
| 29 | When results began to come in from the field researchers , Highlander served as the collection , organisation and computation centre , and held workshops to allow participants to draw some very marked comparisons and contrasts from the raw data . |
| 30 | Alerted by a grapevine of unparalleled efficiency to the presence of honkies with money , hitherto undiscovered talents began swarming in from the ghettos and down from the hills , bearing tape-recordings , even guitars , for impromptu auditions . |