Example sentences of "[verb] in at a " in BNC.

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1 By late afternoon we 'd stopped in at a number of bars along the pier .
2 So I got on the Greyhound Bus for a six-hour ride to Washington and checked in at a cheap hotel opposite the bus depot .
3 Some settlement is likely to take place over a period after the trench has been filled , but this can be filled in at a later stage .
4 An elderly female novelist had come in at a quarter to six and Penelope had found herself trying to explain why her latest novel had not been reviewed in the Sunday Telegraph , why it had not been advertised more widely , why copies had not been displayed on the bookstall of a friend 's local station , why it had not yet been reprinted .
5 The whole enterprise is carried through with panache and — apart from the fact that it clocks in at a rather miserly total of only 52 minutes — the disc can be thoroughly recommended to anyone who wants a well-chosen selection of G&S numbers .
6 Daughter Laura weighed in at a healthy 61b 4oz .
7 After leaving the letter in a drawer she had gone to a nearby town and booked in at a hotel .
8 Wycliffe was booked in at a hotel on the waterfront , up river from the wharf and facing the village of Flushing across a narrow stretch of water .
9 The branch road from Dent joins in at a bridge and the hamlet of Cowgill , once a parish in its own right , is immediately beyond : here is a church built in 1873 , a converted school , the pleasant residence and gardens of Cowgill Grange and an isolated terrace of cottages .
10 Questioned , Swayne stated that the animal had been let out at approximately 9.30 on Saturday evening and was crying to be let in at a little before midnight .
11 Apparently I had windmilled in at a quarter to ten , with three bottles of champagne , all of which I dropped in one catastrophic juggle .
12 WILLIAMS ) came in at a run from the " Coriolanus " matin e e , still in his toga , and just made his position in time . ]
13 We put in at a very tiny stream that would lead to the main waterway .
14 This can be clearly seen at St Oswald 's in Gloucester , where the many phases of development are more clear in elevation than plan , and where , ironically , the earliest masonry is up above arches put in at a later date .
15 A GREY parrot had detectives baffled last night when it was handed in at a Liverpool police station .
16 A self-portrait and a portrait by Jean-Baptiste Greuze were bought in at a sale held at Drouot by Laurin-Guilloux-Buffetaud-Tailleur on 10 March after French museum authorities notified the auction firm the same day that the first work might not be allowed to leave the country .
17 We look in at a window .
18 In both programmes , spectators happen to be present , peering in at a comic version of the star 's life .
19 words , getting in at a a a particular point on a particular subject .
20 ‘ The letters are the firms , the numbers are the prices in pence of a typical Alpha stock and the volumes they are prepared to deal in at a particular time .
21 She pulled in at a motorway service station and decided on lunch .
22 The first 1,000 guardsmen were sworn in at a ceremony in Tbilisi on Feb. 23 , the Soviet Army Day public holiday .
23 Nazarbayev was sworn in at a session of the republican Supreme Soviet on Dec. 10 , at which the republic dropped the words " soviet socialist " from its title to become the Republic of Kazakhstan .
24 Led by Lt Fusata Iida they flew in at a height of 50ft and within a few minutes the airfield was a smoking mess .
25 It 's also a good idea to have a spare machine readily to hand and regularly checked so that it can be wheeled in at a moment 's notice .
26 It was one of those cosmic accidents which are no accident , that the next day , when she called in at a bookshop to look for some more Morris titles , she should find on the same shelf the total output of Professor M. L. Vaughan ; and among the rest his : Aurae Phiala : A Pleasure City of the Second Century A.D. She took it down and opened it at random , and the prose caught her by its incandescent fervour .
27 I called in at a Sainsbury 's to buy some essential items .
28 Who were brought in at a very level .
29 Reaction to their two recently-rescued Sam Powell ales , formerly brewed by the Sam Powell Brewery in Newtown , Powys , is also very encouraging , with repeat orders coming in at a good rate .
30 of 1826 coming in at a deserved third in the field .
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