Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] in [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By late afternoon we 'd stopped in at a number of bars along the pier . |
| 2 | She 'd booked in to a hotel on the Place Gambetta , had a leisurely bath to iron out the kinks of the journey , then followed the receptionist 's directions to the old part of the town , a maze of narrow streets where old timbered buildings leaned amiably towards each other . |
| 3 | They 'd laid in for a siege with dozens of eggs , cans of luncheon meat , and tea . |
| 4 | Then they 'd gone in for a look . |
| 5 | It was so hot outside that she had settled for an orange cheesecloth caftan , which she 'd jacked in with a belt of linked gold hippos . |
| 6 | Even their religious faith was subtly different from her own : they seemed hemmed in by a regiment of saints , feasts , rules , indulgences , penances and novenas , and everyone seemed to be permanently on guard against saying or doing anything that might be deemed heretical . |
| 7 | An elderly female novelist had come in at a quarter to six and Penelope had found herself trying to explain why her latest novel had not been reviewed in the Sunday Telegraph , why it had not been advertised more widely , why copies had not been displayed on the bookstall of a friend 's local station , why it had not yet been reprinted . |
| 8 | Just before airtime , a story had come in on a drug bust : space was hastily made for this . |
| 9 | He had come in for a book of stamps , and when he had got it he joined Breeze , who was waiting on the Green . |
| 10 | If the literary establishment had thought to compare notes they would have realized that every male aura on and off Fleet Street had come in for a bashing . |
| 11 | When Rachel was finally writing up her reports at the end of the morning , Nina suddenly called her and asked if she could come and look at a young man who had come in with a skin rash . |
| 12 | ‘ You 're really down , are n't you ? – said Felix 's wife , who had come in with a jar of instant coffee and a jug of water no more than fairly hot , which increased Stephen 's worry that many things were falling behind . |
| 13 | But one of them is a copy-editor , I think that is what he is called , and he told me that he thought the item had come in from a friend of Leila 's . ’ |
| 14 | Apparently I had windmilled in at a quarter to ten , with three bottles of champagne , all of which I dropped in one catastrophic juggle . |
| 15 | But by nineteen ninety one , that had turned in to a deficit of a hundred million and one prediction suggests the deficit would have widened dramatically to six hundred and forty million pounds by the end of the decade . |
| 16 | She curled up in the position she had slept in as a child ; and realised with a sinking heart that it was not only the most comfortable way of being in bed , but it was also one that you could not adopt in company . |
| 17 | Two robbers both with guns had got in through a kitchen window and were threatening to kill him . |
| 18 | Two robbers , both with guns , had got in through a kitchen window and were threatening to kill him . |
| 19 | They had got in through a cellar window at the back and made their way up to a small office on the third landing where , according to Cyril , the sole employee had been there man and boy until he became fossilized and had to be removed feet first from his station . |
| 20 | Duncan was dug in at the bottom of the orchard and had called in for a chat on his way from Brigade H.Q He was very interested in bagpipe music , having served with the Gordon Highlanders before joining the Commandos . |
| 21 | She had walked in as a cookery demonstration for Korean housewives was under way . |
| 22 | She had walked in as a cookery demonstration for Korean housewives was under way . |
| 23 | He stretched and picked up the phone , but before he could dial he realised he had cut in on a conversation . |