Example sentences of "he [verb] in [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twice he attempted to overtake , but we had reached the top of the hill before a gap in the stream of cars streaking up on our right allowed him to slip in between the lorry and myself . |
| 2 | We 'll have to encourage him to put in on the table . |
| 3 | She could just imagine him closing in for the kill . |
| 4 | I watched him as far as the corner of the curator 's garden , and saw him turn in alongside the hedge . |
| 5 | Collecting her ticket , she came up behind him again as he checked in for the flight . |
| 6 | He came back , and he had been very quick , with an umbrella from which , as he plunged in through the swing door , he was tearing the plastic wrapping . |
| 7 | As he crept in through the scullery window she would leap from her bedroom and conceal herself in the nettles , unconscious of the pain . |
| 8 | If , however , he goes in with the public on that day , conceals himself , and takes the painting on the following day , he is not guilty . |
| 9 | When his mind 's on fisticuffs he sits in on the training sessions there . |
| 10 | He came in at the side door as though he knew his own way . |
| 11 | He came in on the Tube as usual , and walked the last quarter-mile . |
| 12 | ‘ He came in to the shop and asked me what he should wear on the date . |
| 13 | When he came in for the night some hours later he was still agitated and fretting . |
| 14 | She had made him his favourite bottom pie and onions for supper that evening when he came in from the fishing , and he had gone back down to Mother Russell 's after , for a few ales . |
| 15 | No need for secrets , so Mrs Files telephoned her daughter straight away , then told Frank Grimwood who came by with four brace of partridge from yesterday 's let shoot ; who stopped Alec on the tractor with a load of silage behind ; who met Tom in the grainstore ; who found Mary in the estate office when he went in to fill out his time sheet ; who confided in the postman when he came with the afternoon mail ; who amazed Mrs May in Forester 's Cottage when he delivered her Freeman 's Catalogue and a postcard from her son holidaying in Pouket ; who stunned her husband when he came in from the saw mill . |
| 16 | He came in from the scullery with the coal bucket in one hand and in the other a fat metal cylinder . |
| 17 | This hangar was all closed up apart from one door , so he drove in in the semi-dark and reversed rapidly into what he thought was an empty corner without checking it first for parked vehicles . |
| 18 | It was ten o'clock when he turned in between the lodge gates and guided the Porsche down the winding drive to Tavey Grange . |
| 19 | Kenny Milne , who had to deal with the vagaries of a vicious swirl when he threw in at the lineout , thought that the Hastings ' boot was the big difference between the games against France and Wales . |
| 20 | When he roars in from the back of the auditorium , swinging on to the stage from a box , you know that this is the start of something very good . |
| 21 | The moment he walked in at the door he knew something was very wrong . |
| 22 | He was lord mayor in 1570–1 , when he was knighted , and again in 1591 , when he stepped in on the death of a mayor in mid-term . |
| 23 | Kelly was excellent at right back , as was Dorigo on the left : once in the first half he stepped in from the left to tidy up the ball from charging Ippo players , strolled over to the right , and set up a counter attack down the flank , all with great ease ; he looks great . |
| 24 | After a dull opening 40 minutes Hagan took centre stage when he cut in from the right , chipped over Joe Tortolano , brought the ball down and then blasted beyond John Burridge . |
| 25 | The passageway outside was still reverberating from the crash when he started in on the door of the next apartment . |
| 26 | And former England skipper Lineker weighed in with his own good wishes for his old Spurs colleagues — he called in at the training ground . |
| 27 | It was n't until he called in at the vicarage and found the vicar shot , stabbed , strangled and poisoned that I gave up completely . |
| 28 | When he shut the door of her taxi twenty minutes later he leant in through the window . |
| 29 | For example a salesman may operate with his own briefcase computer unit which he plugs in to the telephone system when he wants to obtain or transfer information . |
| 30 | He went in through the school gates when he were five |