Example sentences of "he [verb] in [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did you see him come in through the back door ? ’ |
| 2 | As the car which has been sent for him comes in along the odd little elevated motorway , only four lanes wide , most of the city seems to be below eye-level . |
| 3 | He got in with the wrong crowd up at . |
| 4 | He headed in in the 31st minute after Wright 's centre had taken a deflection , then scored from the penalty spot after being brought down by Bennett . |
| 5 | He moved in to the new , roomier accommodation . |
| 6 | At the next intersection he drew in against the left-hand wall , peering around the corner into the corridor to his left . |
| 7 | One man who could have a busy day on Sunday if he drops in on the above conference will be Michael Billington , the theatre critic of The Guardian . |
| 8 | He came in through the back door on Lily 's afternoon out . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The problems do n't end there ; Kingsley Black had one of his best games for Northern Ireland in Tirana , when he came in for the injured Michael Hughes . |
| 11 | He dropped in at the still extant Paperback Shop . |
| 12 | He booked in at the special executive reception on the eighteenth floor , reserving an executive suite on the twentieth floor . |
| 13 | He booked in to the Inter-Continental Hotel , only a few minutes ' walk from the fairground . |
| 14 | At the other end of North Africa , on 8 November , Anglo-American forces had landed in Algeria , and Rommel had retreated right back to the Agheila position , where he dug in on the defensive . |
| 15 | But Kevin still has his Dad 's bag — and credit card — and he checks in at the ritzy Plaza Hotel before embarking on an hilarious , hair-raising adventure when he runs into the same villains — Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern — who he fought off when he was Home Alone . |
| 16 | Seeing the poverty around him while he was growing up , he joined in with the political groups agitating for social change . |
| 17 | Mark Moncrieff gave Gala a lifeline when he raced in from the 22 for a try which Jim Maitland converted . |
| 18 | The next morning , without seeing any of the family , who were heaven knew where , she made herself some breakfast under the smiling gaze of Rose or Mary — she did n't know which — and before she could get into a worry as to whether Feargal had meant his offer to take her to Carlingford he walked in through the back door . |
| 19 | The jolt rattled his ribs and he breathed in at the same moment as his head crashed through the surface , like a seal in the surf . |
| 20 | He pulled in onto the rough ground before the house , switched off the engine , and got out . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Apart from saying he had given up singing and trumpet-playing , he invented things , such as that his school had suggested he go in for the Young Musician of the Year contest . |
| 23 | The last time that that young person went into secure accommodation in Middlesbrough , he went in through the front door at 3.30 pm , and at 5.30 pm he disappeared out the back door and stole a car to make his escape . |
| 24 | He went in through the plain mahogany door , and stopped . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | After Eton and a spell as a waiter in the United States , he fell in with the exotic Soho underworld of the day and found himself earning £500 a week , very good money in 1961 . |
| 27 | While Baldwin 's succession to Bonar Law in 1923 has been almost overdiscussed , practically no attention has been given to the way in which he slipped in for the third time in 1935 . |
| 28 | When he left the Kunstgewerbeschule in 1936 he set up in Zurich as a freelance photograph , a job he fitted in between the traditional periods of military service compulsory in Switzerland , then worked for a year in the famous magazine Graphics . |
| 29 | and er , anyway he hobbled in , oh he said , me knee , hmm , anyway sat with him and had a cup of tea , she did n't have nothing to drink like and er , anyway we had our tea and he hobbled in to the front room , and er and er , she says well you bugger you are , er batter mixture up for ya |
| 30 | Gilford forged a three-stoke lead when he chipped in at the seventh but first Spence , with birdies at the tenth and eleventh , then Ames with strikes at the fourteenth and fifteenth , cut his lead to only one . |