Example sentences of "[vb past] in [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . " |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Outside two young men peered in at the lighted women with their bottles and Jonquil 's cans of Carlsberg . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She slunk in through the French windows , hoping to creep upstairs unseen . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The tiny river sounds came in through the open hatches . |
| 10 | The smell of the flowers came in through the open windows of the bus . |
| 11 | Seve Ballesteros , who had shared the overnight lead on 67 , was making no further progress and was still five under par as he came in on the closing holes . |
| 12 | I had n't intended to speak on the external affairs section , but the discussion had widened so much that I came in with the attached remarks . |
| 13 | We could put ourselves in three lots of two and your mum came in with the three pizzas we 'd get one between us so we get a half . |
| 14 | The listeners tuned in to the German wavelengths because they found Joyce amusing unintentionally or for his anecdotes , or else because they wished to hear both sides of the argument , or even because they did not trust their own authorities to tell them the whole truth . |
| 15 | Seeing the poverty around him while he was growing up , he joined in with the political groups agitating for social change . |
| 16 | While Northumberland was imprisoned in the Tower ( 1605–21 ) , Warner brought his books from Syon , and joined in with the learned discussions of the earl and his other mathematical and scientific clients — Thomas Harriot , Robert Hues , and Nathaniel Torporley [ qq.v . ] . |
| 17 | expressed the opinion , concurred in by the other members of the court , that a contractual right of one party to an action to have the costs of the action paid by another party to the action could not override the discretion as to costs given to the court by Ord. 62 , r. 3(2) and section 51(1) of the Act of 1981 , but that where an order for payment of the costs was sought , the discretion should ordinarily be exercised so as to reflect the contractual right . |
| 18 | Ian James walked in during the early hours of the morning and stole a leather jacket and a handbag from the hall . |
| 19 | lifting a sheet of corrugated iron which the farmer had ready I rushed in among the little pigs . |
| 20 | Further that we shall petition government tor an abolition and nullifying of the foresaid Act from the records of British parliament ; that the members of parliament for this county shall present this petition , or any annexed thereto , to the two Houses of Parliament , and to the Privy Council , during the prorogation of parliament — ‘ Menzies was seething and he broke in on the last words . |
| 21 | One day as dusk was falling and he was feeding in a deserted cove at a dead razorbill he had found , and a heavy grey sea rolled in among the great rocks below the high-tide mark , Creggan became aware that he was being watched . |
| 22 | A group of teenagers sat , wedged in behind the fixed tables and seats in the alcove . |
| 23 | Back from Cuba , his belief in non-violence now a fading memory , he fell in with the dope-smoking radicals of the key young radical movement , Students for a Democratic Society . |
| 24 | The first time she rang the bell and went in through the front doors of the elegant old house where the showrooms were situated ( Mattli had no rear entrance ) Paula felt she was stepping into the place of her dreams . |
| 25 | He waited another second , then shrugged his shoulders and went in through the double doors . |
| 26 | Anne 's daddy looked at the mistletoe in the apple-tree when they reached Sundial Cottage and then went in with the three Brownies to see Miss Miggs . |
| 27 | If you look at the people who went in for the Olympic Games , right up to the Second World War , erm you would call them amateurs . |
| 28 | The light was already fading , dark clouds dropping towards the sea and rain drifted in across the wet sands . |
| 29 | Herbs distributed about the garden mixed in with the general plantings will often supply that " surprise " quality that the old garden-landscape designers insisted on , as an aroma wafts through the air on a hot sunny day , or when a plant is brushed accidentally so that a spicy smell comes apparently out of nowhere . |
| 30 | Arguments about merit have never really gone away , and many people have felt that the extra effort put in by the best students need to be recognised . |