Example sentences of "he [verb] in [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Collecting her ticket , she came up behind him again as he checked in for the flight . |
| 2 | Once at Frankfurt 's Rhine-Main airport he had collected the keys of a Golf Corbio from the Hertz desk and driven the twenty-four miles on the A66 to Mainz where he checked in at the Europa Hotel on Kaiserstrasse . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As he crept in through the scullery window she would leap from her bedroom and conceal herself in the nettles , unconscious of the pain . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When his mind 's on fisticuffs he sits in on the training sessions there . |
| 7 | When he reached the fighting , he charged in amongst the Dragoons , shouting loudly and urging his companions to follow him . |
| 8 | He came in at the side door as though he knew his own way . |
| 9 | Yeah , cos we was there in the August , they were n't , we moved in , in the July , there , and the girls were , Matthew was just four , cos just as we moved in our dad took Matthew to Hungary with him , it was like , it was like they were going on the following Wednesday , and he told me on the Friday , he came in on the Friday night , they planned , it was our dad , Crystal and Danielle , Crystal and Danielle , but she said even if I go out in the middle of . |
| 10 | He came in on the Tube as usual , and walked the last quarter-mile . |
| 11 | ‘ He came in to the shop and asked me what he should wear on the date . |
| 12 | When he came in for the night some hours later he was still agitated and fretting . |
| 13 | He came in with the ideas , give the drivers and conductors everything they asked for whereby my training had always been to only give them what they were really entitled to , not give them anything extra but he gave them the earth and that erm did n't sort of go very well for the new Manager who came in , he had a lot of undoing to do there , that this fella had given away , in his six or seven weeks there . |
| 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 | So he booked in at the John Radcliffe Cardiac Unit … close to his home in Marlow . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It was ten o'clock when he turned in between the lodge gates and guided the Porsche down the winding drive to Tavey Grange . |
| 20 | He wades in among the pair of them , grabs their studded leather collars and starts yanking them away . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | When he climbed in beside the Fish they leaned forward and kissed him enthusiastically . |
| 24 | Erm having made these contributions erm he got a note to the effect from the T P A that erm some of the money that he paid in to the A B C had to be repaid to him as a lump sum because the money coming from that sum would have taken his pension over the forty eightieths . |
| 25 | The moment he walked in at the door he knew something was very wrong . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He stepped in amongst the figures , moving around the bed until he reached the kneeling wax effigy . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The passageway outside was still reverberating from the crash when he started in on the door of the next apartment . |