Example sentences of "[vb past] in [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries gave way to the nineteenth , things became crisper : you read of a profusion of Elizas and Thomases , of beloved wives and lamented parents : white marble crept in with the grey limestone . |
| 2 | We crept in under a low table and covered ourselves with a tarpaulin . |
| 3 | But on the night of January 1st , thieves crept in through a back door and took £30,000 worth of family heirlooms , including two trophies won by the stud farm nearly a century ago : |
| 4 | With the game going into added time Michael Galwey , after good work by Geoghegan , Clarke and Bradley , got in for an Irish try . |
| 5 | He got in through a half-closed larder window . |
| 6 | Jewellery worth £450 was taken after a thief got in through an open window . |
| 7 | More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He got in with the wrong crowd up at . |
| 10 | He will do if he gets it into his head but he got in trouble you see , got in with the wrong crowd and |
| 11 | Treleaven , from Hayling , only got in as a last-minute replacement when Michael Welch , on EGU duty in Spain , crushed his thumb in a door and had to scratch from the Salver and Sunday 's Hampshire Hog at North Hants , where he should have been defending . |
| 12 | We got in to an unreserved seating area for 13 quid . |
| 13 | ‘ Any landing you walk away from is a good one , ’ she exclaimed as they taxied in to the small terminal . |
| 14 | At Bragança there was no response from the tower as we transmitted our intentions , landed and taxied in to the little apron . |
| 15 | The forward screen zoomed in on the slight figure of the target . |
| 16 | So I got on the Greyhound Bus for a six-hour ride to Washington and checked in at a cheap hotel opposite the bus depot . |
| 17 | ‘ Dejala , ’ they yelled as she rode in for the big swipe and missed it . |
| 18 | ‘ I always felt as if you rode in on a white charger and saved me from my loneliness . |
| 19 | Cornelius gazed in through the front window of Molly 's Wholefoods . |
| 20 | Young Mrs M. looked shocked at the thought , so she waited outside , while I sprinted in for a quick glimpse at Bishop Stock 's former domain . |
| 21 | Expenditure above the GREA level results in a reduction of block grant , with a ‘ steepening ’ effect built in above a certain threshold to penalize the high spenders . |
| 22 | The french windows were closed and he drew his gun and peered in to the gloomy apartment . |
| 23 | Having refurbished two bits of year-old evidence to support the new Libyan thesis , he now weighed in with a two-year-old intelligence report about a meeting in Tripoli before the bombing — in mid-November 1988 — at which the Libyans were said to have taken over responsibility for the attack from the PFLP — GC after Jibril 's West German cell was broken up . |
| 24 | The Trades Union Congress weighed in with a Green Charter , which included the right to hold ‘ green strikes ’ over issues like the importation of toxic wastes . |
| 25 | At the next intersection he drew in against the left-hand wall , peering around the corner into the corridor to his left . |
| 26 | He was disturbed when his 2 attackers crashed in through a back door . |
| 27 | I moved in to the front room where the disco had moved on to heavier metal ( New Model Army , I think — a band to watch despite their fans ) but still nobody was dancing . |
| 28 | Many divorced and separated women moved in with a new partner . |
| 29 | The Sierra Leone government promised the AfDB there would be strict environmental protection measures , but despite such assurances , loggers , farmers and charcoal-burners moved in along the new road , eating into the rainforest . |
| 30 | The custom of cleaning the close had been explained to Madge on the day she moved in by a small woman carrying a metal pail and a large card . |