Example sentences of "and [vb past] in [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ellwood walked to his car and got in like a man with a purpose accomplished . |
| 2 | Jacqueline had given birth to Tommy 's daughter and moved in with a man called Steve Branch , who was living on Mill Farm Close . |
| 3 | I bought something very quickly in the area where we had planned to buy before , and moved in in a matter of weeks , decorating the place with the help of my mum and dad and furnishing it with the family 's cast-offs and a sofa-bed which Nick gave me . |
| 4 | Spotting the light of prospect , Christopher Barry applied to join the BBC , and came in as a Production Assistant in 1955 . |
| 5 | Lucker with his booted feet on the bed , and walled in by a screening newspaper , makes no gesture of acknowledgement . |
| 6 | Hard to feel sorry for the laird , who would have watched the sweating workers from his window , hands in pockets , listening for the doorbell in case the king changed his mind and dropped in for a scone . |
| 7 | BIGGLES pilot Anthony West coolly landed his vintage Tiger Moth biplane right outside a secluded country pub — and swaggered in for a pint . |
| 8 | Having been stung in a similar situation in their last league game when Gregor McKechnie called their bluff over a kickable penalty and scuttled in for a try , Tukalo tried to do likewise after Joe Munro had been caught offside in the Watsonian 22 , as Scott Hastings was called to arms to police Linton . |
| 9 | Dessie Loughrey 's long throw was flicked on by Robert Ritchie and the ball deflected off Comrades centre half Dean Gordon and went in off a post . |
| 10 | He stopped at the door and stared in for a minute . |
| 11 | It was the smell of a hundred bodies that had not been bathed for a week , of a hundred sets of clothes that had been lived and slept in for a week , of excreta and vomit trapped by the windows that had not been opened for a week . |
| 12 | Pallanza lies in the centre of its west bank — a busy , friendly , village-like town stretched along a lakeside promenade and nestled in among a mass of scenic loveliness . |
| 13 | There was a garden hazed over by sunlight and held in by a dome . |
| 14 | Lindsey came on and sat in for a couple of numbers and really enjoyed being back on the boards with us lot . |