Example sentences of "have [verb] in [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She had not been allowed make-up ; if she had , at that age , developed any idea of herself as having rights simply by virtue of being a pretty girl , it must have crept in between the covers of some acceptable book . |
| 32 | We may have zeroed in on the difference , but so what ? |
| 33 | I found a small but perfectly-formed hailstone on my knee , which must have got in through the air vent . |
| 34 | ‘ You 'll have to check in with the policeman , ’ the Staff Nurse yelled after us . |
| 35 | Erm so that we may well have to link in to the training programme and go back and check , for instance in three where I 've talked about the business plans . |
| 36 | Celia kept slipping and Liza kept telling herself she was ridiculous to have given in to the child . |
| 37 | They had never met before , but as soon as Duroc was inside the Agency 's inner sanctum , the Chief Op looked up from his blondwood desk , flashed a monied piranha grin , and acted as if his visitor were an old college buddy who had happened to have walked in off the street . |
| 38 | It is not the student returning but a flood of visitors — a lady coming to teach Hungarian to students about to visit Budapest , a social worker sorting out a student with severe memory loss whose phone is about to be cut off , a personnel officer from the Civic Offices to recruit potential employees from students on the scheme and one or two others who just seem to have wandered in off the streets . |
| 39 | People who seemed to have wandered in off the street . |
| 40 | Lee remembered when a sparrow had flown in through the window of her bedroom when she was a child . |
| 41 | He had given in about the purchase of the land , of course . |
| 42 | The one time Mayor of Arden , father of the bruised Grace ( ‘ Had it been Paddy Ashdown I would n't have minded one little bit ’ ) , had checked in at the desk and was about to carry his overnight bag up to his room when he noticed her through the glass door of an adjoining room . |
| 43 | A spokesman at the hotel said he and the other members of the team had checked in at the weekend and appeared to be none the worse for their ordeal . |
| 44 | When mum and I had checked in at the travel desk and given in our suit cases we were able to wander around and have something to eat until our flight was called out . |
| 45 | I were just so psyched up on Wednesday and then I had to go in on the Friday before so I did n't |
| 46 | But I felt guilty about her being in a Home … she just had to go in in the end — and I know it 's the best place , it 's safe and she has company all the time … ’ |
| 47 | There the plaintiff had booked in at the reception desk of a hotel and only subsequently , on entering her room , did she discover behind the door a notice which claimed to exclude the hotel 's liability for guests ’ property . |
| 48 | Leaden clouds had rolled in with the setting sun and as they neared Carvoeiro fat drops of rain began to splash on to the windscreen . |
| 49 | As the freak end of the underground had dropped in on the LSE , so the politicos , or would-be politicos , packed their bags for Alexandra Palace . |
| 50 | As Major Pond discovered , seat-holders were let in through side doors while hoi polloi had to come in through the front in the hope of getting what they could . |
| 51 | His dad had n't much luck dying in his fifties and the boy had looked in with the bread and milk most days since her accident . |
| 52 | I 've come in for the polish |
| 53 | ‘ Is she of a good family , like Mercy ? ’ asked his surprised mother , who had come in during the conversation . |
| 54 | Probably the paper did n't even have wire service , and if it did , he 'd bet a dime that anything which had come in about the book 's author had simply been buried in the chaos then reigning in the newspaper office . |
| 55 | He had come in at the door , he had lain down with her , he had been her lover . |
| 56 | It had come in for the attack . |
| 57 | There was one early proposal about archaeology which became a series called The Blood of the British , where they had come in with the idea of the series . |
| 58 | Old Joseph was glad he kept the Christmas cards from his son and daughter in 1987 , for every year since then he has taken them out and displayed them as if they had come in with the post . |
| 59 | He was glad that he did n't throw out the Christmas cards from his son and daughter in 1987 , for every year since he had taken them out of the suitcase on top of the wardrobe and displayed them in his own room as if they had come in with the morning post . |
| 60 | Ray had come in from the country bank and we sat with Margaret through the short service . |