Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] in [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the first time , too , that I 'd been in a classroom with girls , and I got in with a bad bunch of women . |
| 2 | ‘ I had a cartilage operation three and a half years ago , and I went in for a tackle just before Christmas and damaged it again . |
| 3 | I was feeling low and I gave in to a mad impulse . ’ |
| 4 | We sailed into a murky , airless dawn veiled by the thin drizzle of a Scotch Mist , and I turned in for a few hours . |
| 5 | And when you wanted to buy something like a three piece suite , you went to somewhere like Bentalls and they took you into a little room , soon as you said to the man well I want to buy this on hire purchase and you went in to a little room and the man sat down and you filled in a long form . |
| 6 | Thus Jasper 's father might have been the man who was painting the flats and who came in for a cup of tea , or the old lover whom she happened to run into in Denmark Hill , or the neighbour who was moving out of Flat 16 and who came up to say goodbye while his girlfriend was packing their furniture into the rented van . |
| 7 | On her way , she passed the room with the light on , and she looked in with a stab of surprised longing at the cosy scene inside . |
| 8 | Cos Rita swears she 's been , I mean I was out with her once and we went in for a coffee and we finished , right , and we 're ready to go and I nearly said to her I hate it after you 've finished and Jackie lights up and then I have to sit there while she has a fag |
| 9 | They managed to flag a taxi and they piled in amid a lot of shouting and general drunken bonhomie . |
| 10 | At each town the Captain had to greet the mayor and they tucked in to an excellent meal afterwards . |
| 11 | When we started rehearsing , we arrived at the cello 's first entry and he came in with a dreadful slow grumbling noise . |
| 12 | This young lad about probably about twenty three , twenty four , and he came in with a cigarette and I said excu excuse me but I 'm afraid it 's a no-smoking area . |
| 13 | I got my first into the sea close off Sliema and the second was on the way out some miles further out and he went in without a top wing . |