Example sentences of "[vb past] in [verb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sixth came after young Sarah Wade sneaked in to take on the Stockton defence in style . |
| 2 | ‘ Sometimes the house gets on top of her , ’ Mrs Hellyer explained when she dropped in to see how the girls were managing . |
| 3 | Maxwell 's good judgement came in taking over the BPCC printing business and transforming it into a global communications empire . |
| 4 | When Semple departed , Dalton Trumbo came in to build up the Dega character in line with the buddy-buddy movie trend . |
| 5 | She tapped , and walked in to find not the sitting-room she 'd expected , but a light , modern office . |
| 6 | It was only this January that the Canadian government stepped in to prop up the project taking a 6.5 per cent share which has subsequently been sold to the Murphy Oil Company of Arkansas . |
| 7 | And South Bank-based Camping Holidays for Underprivileged Children ( CHUC ) stepped in to take up the offer from the Fry Street hotel . |
| 8 | We had filled our tank , and were eating at the open food-stall , or " warong " , just across the street when a dilapidated petrol-truck pulled in to top up the filling-station 's reservoir . |
| 9 | The keeper fumbled and defender Nigel Quigley leapt in to head home the equaliser . |
| 10 | The keeper fumbled and defender Nigel Quigley leapt in to head home the equaliser . |
| 11 | Arncliff folk were so poor — the meagre belongings of all twenty-seven totalling no more than £9. 7s. 4d. — that when the subsidy came to be levied , Robert Selson and William Prysche , with 20s. apiece , John Knolles ( 26s. 8d. ) , and Thomas and Leonard Atkynson ( 10s. each ) were selected as if at random and assessed at £2 each ; although the first two also enjoyed tiny incomes from land , it is to be hoped that some at least of their neighbours chipped in to make up the shilling due from each . |