Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] in [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Broussac , on our way home , stopped to jeer in at the lighted windows of Master Ferrebourg 's office . |
| 2 | And as Cram prepared to jump in at the deep end with a clash against Olympic 10,000m champion Khalid Skah in the BUPA International Festival of Running , race organiser Brendan Foster tipped his pal to rekindle memories of his glory days in his new event . |
| 3 | Just as her words were out one of the charity women came chattering in through the open doors to the terrace . |
| 4 | In the second half , Joey Beauchamp came flying in like the daring young man on the trapeze . |
| 5 | Instead of liking the look of the water , wading in carefully and finding it was wonderful , she 'd tumbled in at the deep end . |
| 6 | Next moment the swirling fog in the alley was suddenly lit to a brilliant white by the head lamps of the car which came roaring in at the far end . |
| 7 | He was still suffering from jet-lag but opted to plunge in at the deep end against Monaghan . |
| 8 | On this bright evening , they were looped back by twisted and tasselled cords ; light came streaming in through the sashed plate-glass windows . |
| 9 | I happened to look in on the Private Office before going home in order to see whether there was anything I ought to take account of . |
| 10 | At Charing Cross the boatman began to pull in as the deep bend in the river became more pronounced . |
| 11 | I mean it 's basically in , if it 's , if in , the main reason that people brought Share in for the large media restriction of pre |
| 12 | Corbett felt hemmed in by the sheer frustration of the task assigned him . |
| 13 | But this time they did turn in between the lion-surmounted gateposts . |
| 14 | The Acting Reporter from Strathclyde , Gordon Sloan , who had filled in for the past year , would continue to look after the cases with which he had been involved . |
| 15 | At the end of it , just before Myeloski had given in to the rough flight conditions , Duncan had come to realize how sharp the policeman was , how through his individual approach he had put together clues that most others would have missed . |
| 16 | The rear window of one of the shops looked out over poor Mary 's deposited remains and Martin had to go in through the narrow entrance to flash his lamp on it . |
| 17 | Andre had fallen in with the legendary Lafons of Meursault — Dominique Lafon was at college at the same time , and Lafon pere had become something of a mentor . |
| 18 | Her father , finding in her many of the qualities he had admired in her mother , had given her far greater freedom from the harem than was normal and from childhood she had sat in on the political and intellectual discussions her father had with his cronies . |
| 19 | It had been Dr Rolleston 's great sorrow that he had not been able to help children who had come in with the dreaded Infantile Paralysis , not that any other professor in Europe had been able to do better than by careful nursing stop the paralysis spreading . |
| 20 | This beggar had come in to the fitting shop , corner at the back corner , where he should n't have been . |
| 21 | Said his friend-cum-mentor , Irving Layton , in looking back over the period , ‘ I had a very sharp feeling in the early fifties that poetry in Canada had come in from the cold and was starting to gain momentum . ’ |
| 22 | Reproaching herself for not having unlocked it when she had come in from the main door , she rose quickly and went to open up . |
| 23 | If Lili had come in by the back door it had been very late indeed . |
| 24 | Neighbours were concerned because a daughter with a psychiatric history , marital difficulties and debts , had moved in with the old couple . |
| 25 | For example , he was working out the exposition of the melodic cells which are the basis of most of the movement , so that his use of contradicting notes had to fit in with the melodic intervals , which were probably his primary concern . |
| 26 | As they reached the lay-by , the accused had pulled in alongside the red van and stopped . |
| 27 | We also had to settle in at the new apartment , which I 'm very impressed by ( and only hope it 's a long let , but I 'm scatterbrained about such things and leave all that to Tod ) . |
| 28 | I kept just killing time until it had gone eleven o'clock and all the cinema-goers had gone in for the late shows , at which point I decided to call it a day . |
| 29 | Last time the fibre-optic and wire-cutter had gone in by the front door ; this time they were to enter by the back . |
| 30 | At the capitalization party a number of well-wishers had wandered in from the various Labour movement campaigns and organizations which shared the Caxton House office block with NoS . |