Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] in from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ray had come in from the country bank and we sat with Margaret through the short service . |
| 2 | It was a relief when Stephen Copley , the Senior Chemist , arrived just before ten , bustling in as usual , his rubicund face with its tonsure and fringe of black curly hair glistening as if he had come in from the sun . |
| 3 | The train had come in from the sidings and stood in the station , warm and pulsing , its engines reattached , the horses and grooms on board and fresh foods and ice loaded . |
| 4 | McAllister looked at him from under the long dark eyelashes which had won his heart from the very first moment when he had seen them , on his sofa , adorning the unconscious girl he had carried in from the street . |
| 5 | Duncan lay still , confused and wondering why the Army had moved in from the south . |
| 6 | When the corporation took control , all the families living there had moved in from the city area . |
| 7 | They had moved in from the garden during a cold spell in November . |
| 8 | He thought it a great feat that she had got in from the Point in an hour and a quarter . |
| 9 | By a coincidence the letter had been waiting for her on her dressing-table when she had got in from the pictures the previous night , just after she had been thinking and talking of Hilda . |
| 10 | The fire by which we sat , Mrs Browning in front , I to one side , consisted mainly of a branch of beech which she had brought in from the woods : the thick end was in the fireplace , surrounded by burning twigs cosseted into flame by Mrs Browning , who puffed upon them with a pair of leather bellows when they faltered , and the other end , in shape and size rather like the antlers of a deer , reached out into the room . |
| 11 | Then he went on to warn us that , during the cold snap earlier in the year , ice floes had swept in from the sea dragging buoys from their moorings . |