Example sentences of "[vb past] in [prep] the [adj] [noun] " 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 | It crept in amongst the ordered ranks of hieroglyphics in a simple line of graffiti , scrawled in French , on the hull of one of the royal barques : " You must not forget me . " |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He got in with the wrong crowd up at . |
| 5 | He will do if he gets it into his head but he got in trouble you see , got in with the wrong crowd and |
| 6 | ‘ Any landing you walk away from is a good one , ’ she exclaimed as they taxied in to the small terminal . |
| 7 | At Bragança there was no response from the tower as we transmitted our intentions , landed and taxied in to the little apron . |
| 8 | The forward screen zoomed in on the slight figure of the target . |
| 9 | ‘ Dejala , ’ they yelled as she rode in for the big swipe and missed it . |
| 10 | Cornelius gazed in through the front window of Molly 's Wholefoods . |
| 11 | A bolero for example , is really just a short cardigan with curved front edges and crossover cardigan just has extra width built in to the front pieces so that they overlap each over . |
| 12 | The french windows were closed and he drew his gun and peered in to the gloomy apartment . |
| 13 | Outside two young men peered in at the lighted women with their bottles and Jonquil 's cans of Carlsberg . |
| 14 | At the next intersection he drew in against the left-hand wall , peering around the corner into the corridor to his left . |
| 15 | It was a slow , infuriating process , and as A roads gave way to B and Robyn neared her destination already two hours late , the slowly darkening skies became as black and as desperate as Robyn 's frame of mind , until the heavens opened and it started to pour — not reasonable , perfectly acceptable drops of rain from a warm July sky , but pounding , penetrating torrents that battered and bounced off the roof of the jeep and seeped in through the ill-fitting windows . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This one was just about right , though it bulged our financial boundaries , and we moved in with the previous owners ' carpets and curtains and little else . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He booked in to the Inter-Continental Hotel , only a few minutes ' walk from the fairground . |
| 20 | He booked in at the special executive reception on the eighteenth floor , reserving an executive suite on the twentieth floor . |
| 21 | The cheapest way to go was via Colombo and so I dropped in on the local centre there . |
| 22 | Despite the arrival of Pow and Currey ( who filled in for the absent Kolar ) , 'Mere continued to be driven back in the scrums . |
| 23 | He took the piece of paper away with him , the name filled in above the pre-signed certificate , and showed it to Barnett who was pleased and who believed that it was worth having . |
| 24 | When the processing requested by a form has been completed the request form will be returned to the lexicographers with the Completion Confirmed on Date filled in by the New OED Computer Group . |
| 25 | She slunk in through the French windows , hoping to creep upstairs unseen . |
| 26 | A fair number of final bids which came in under the reserve price were later accepted . |
| 27 | I could relive it every time I came in through the front door . |
| 28 | She was hanging up the jacket of her plum-coloured suit when Rebecca came in through the outer door . |
| 29 | There was a layer of grey-blue smoke in the room at about shoulder level , and a big wave in it , probably produced by me as I came in through the double doors of the back porch . |
| 30 | Back home , he dreamt , he filled the whole flat with buckets of earth , even filled soup dishes and the kettle and the wineglasses with soil , and spent hours watering them and moving them carefully around every day , carrying them from room to room so that they would be struck in turn by whatever sunshine came in through the different windows at different times of the day , making sure they were kept warm . |