Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] in [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of liking the look of the water , wading in carefully and finding it was wonderful , she 'd tumbled in at the deep end . |
| 2 | Corbett felt hemmed in by the sheer frustration of the task assigned him . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | For the sake of a quiet life he had given in to an unreasonable request and only now did he fully realize what it meant . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But she had done it in a very peculiar way : she had booked in to a private Well Woman Clinic under an assumed name . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This beggar had come in to the fitting shop , corner at the back corner , where he should n't have been . |
| 11 | Then Beryl went on to outline a couple of job offers that had come in within the last few days . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | Reproaching herself for not having unlocked it when she had come in from the main door , she rose quickly and went to open up . |
| 14 | If Lili had come in by the back door it had been very late indeed . |
| 15 | It was a real Fanny-by-gaslight relic of the old city , redolent of gin and vomit and brutal crimes , and the fog had crept in like an old friend and made a dripping urinal of the walls . |
| 16 | A Shetland crofting family , for instance , had moved in with a childless older woman , who became ‘ one of the family … |
| 17 | Neighbours were concerned because a daughter with a psychiatric history , marital difficulties and debts , had moved in with the old couple . |
| 18 | He had moved in with an older man , TV director Roger Brackett . |
| 19 | She had bought Martyr 's Cottage before his appointment as Director of the power station and he had moved in by an unspoken agreement that this was a temporary expedient while he decided what to do , keep on the Barbican flat as his main home or sell the flat and buy a house in Norwich and a smaller pied à terre in London . |
| 20 | As they reached the lay-by , the accused had pulled in alongside the red van and stopped . |
| 21 | After the fish had settled in for a few days , one that I had thought to be a male showed signs of filling eggs , and developed a bright yellow patch on her belly . |
| 22 | Part of this represented a disquieting pattern which had set in since the 1960s ( see Table 2.3 ) . |
| 23 | Soon after the war ended it trebled its student members when the Ministry of Education issued grants to ex-servicemen in an attempt to prevent a recurrence of the disillusionment that had set in after the First World War . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Last time the fibre-optic and wire-cutter had gone in by the front door ; this time they were to enter by the back . |
| 26 | Bryan Thomson had scraped in with a 74 ( 84 gross ) . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Sacks of corn were piled loosely against a wall ; three sheep had wandered in from the nearby pasture and had not been expelled ; there was a rank smell from underfoot . |
| 29 | We had barged in on an 18-day course on Bioregionalism at Schumacher College , in the Old Postern at Dartington , conducted by Kirkpatrick Sale . |
| 30 | Denktash argued that UN proposals would mean that 40,000 Turkish Cypriots would be forced to leave homes they had lived in since the Turkish invasion of the island in 1974 . |