Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] in [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This report has just come in from the Environments Officer . |
| 2 | The show is hip and happening , dude : the audience looks as if it has just walked in off the King 's Road , the post-modernish set is ultra-cool , the show 's titles are dazzling , the best I 've seen on British television . |
| 3 | The free edge of the epidermis has clearly moved in over the marked wound mesenchyme , leaving less than 10% of it exposed by this stage . |
| 4 | They were all sitting there staring at me and Monsieur de Levantiére said , ‘ This is Constance , who has kindly stepped in at the last moment . ’ |
| 5 | None of the European resorts has yet gone in for the wholesale investment in snow-making which we see in the United States , mainly because the capital outlay is enormous and the running costs extremely high . |
| 6 | She 'd just walked in to the nearest doorway and spilled the whole thing to a complete stranger . |
| 7 | Ye 'd best go in before the rain . ’ |
| 8 | They had all squeezed in behind the driver for the run to Canterbury , where there was a Jaguar agent . |
| 9 | He did not take his readers back into history so much as bring Thomas Paine , William Hazlitt , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Sir Walter Scott [ qq.v. ] , and others forward , as if they had suddenly walked in from the street . |
| 10 | He was lonely and broke and had already barged in for the loan of a cupful of Quaker oats . |
| 11 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 12 | Dinah had just gone in with the dagger to smear the sleeping servants with blood . |
| 13 | ‘ O Jesus Christ , ’ he said , looking over my shoulder as if JC had just wandered in from the garden , ‘ did you die for this boy ? ’ |
| 14 | Then , when the horse is brought out of the stable , instead of just walking quietly along ( which it would if it had just come in from the paddock ) , it is jumping out of its skin , ready to spook and shy at anything , nostrils dilated , eyes bulging , and tail hoisted high . |
| 15 | It was quite soon after the terrible motor accident that had crippled him for life , and she had just come in from the garden with a bunch of flowers for him . |
| 16 | ‘ He must have powerful friends , ’ said Georgiades , who had just limped in off the streets ; not injured but footsore . |
| 17 | Only a party bigot would claim that they had somehow come in with the Conservative Government three years earlier . |
| 18 | Modigliani sketched a middle-aged couple in evening dress who had probably dropped in to the Rotonde late one night . |
| 19 | Slatter had probably slipped in with the crowd and been served by his wife while he was grabbing a swift meal in the kitchen . |
| 20 | Still , Huy had answered Surere 's summons , had even given in to the messenger 's insistence that they travel in the closed rickshaw , so that he would not be able to tell where they were going . |
| 21 | ‘ Even though PDAG is not to be abolished until next April , it seems members have already given in to the Tories . |
| 22 | The wh he said in fact it 's just come in for the programme or something has n't it . |
| 23 | He 's just come in on the come back trail and he seems to me to be getting better and better . |
| 24 | It 's probably come in with the door being open . |