Example sentences of "just [verb] in [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toby , on the other hand , just looked in on the way to the boarding annexe , and popped straight out again , while Corbett Farraday had no particular fear of the boys — were n't they all boys together at Burleigh ? and stayed in the Staff Common Room for no other reason than to work himself up to an approach to Penny . |
| 2 | ‘ He must have powerful friends , ’ said Georgiades , who had just limped in off the streets ; not injured but footsore . |
| 3 | I think , so it just blends in with the border round |
| 4 | It just bounced in from the garden . |
| 5 | The wh he said in fact it 's just come in for the programme or something has n't it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ This report has just come in from the Environments Officer . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Oh I want that some if all the social services just put in with the thing having |
| 11 | Most of the guests on his show live next door — they just pop in on the way home from work . |
| 12 | All my favourite high street shops seemed to be offering them if you just walked in off the street so I snapped up several . |
| 13 | Yeah well what happens if you just get in at the end of your or a at the time before they change the band , the colours ? |
| 14 | When the train had gone , she said , ‘ We 'll just call in at the grocer 's , dear . ’ |
| 15 | Beyond them , just coming in through the door , she saw Pascoe . |
| 16 | You never know what 's just coming in through the door . ’ |
| 17 | Just coming in through the door at that very minute was Detective-Constable Edwards . |
| 18 | This must be him just coming in through the side door . |
| 19 | It 's when I , when I went to Poland it 's not two or three years , it was nineteen seventy three and I was , I was just coming in into the church and the one Witness was with me and we were going in er big town like Cracow , you know , we were going one way and there was a couple coming erm to meet us like you know in , in , in , on the road , and he was just wearing erm jeans and no shirt , but erm a big , big wooden cross on his chest just reaching really across his chest a wooden cross and then erm a safety pin in his nose and three safety pins attached to one another through his ears and this Witness with me walking down , she says just look at this couple and the girl was , wore the same dress she , she had the top on , you know , but again all sort of queer looking and she , this Witness with me , with me so , she said just look at the two that 's er coming aga to meet us and I said yes and I looked and I said look at the cross and she says yes , it used to be , they used to hang the criminals on the crosses and now the crosses hang on the criminals is n't that lovely , and now the cross is er all the criminals instead of the cross , oh yes |
| 20 | Look — there she is , just coming in from the garden . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Ya see , I just flew in from the States and I took your British Airways — my all-time favourite airline — and you know what they did ? |
| 23 | Dinah had just gone in with the dagger to smear the sleeping servants with blood . |
| 24 | He 'd said his prayers and celebrated Mass , Benedicta just slipping in at the door and kneeling next to the baptismal font instead of coming further up the nave . |
| 25 | You ca n't just walk in off the street and say ‘ I want to study a degree in neurophysiology or erm or chemistry even . ’ |
| 26 | The movies succeeded because people could just walk in from the streets but from the beginning everything was done to ensure that as many people as possible were brought in . |
| 27 | I I so I just go in to the paddock ? |
| 28 | And is that for children who are living there or just go in for the day ? |
| 29 | Just go in for the day till their parents go to work I think . |
| 30 | I 'd just come in from the garden and kicked my wellies off when it happened . ’ |