Example sentences of "[verb] in from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nineteen Cubans and Spaniards were allowed to disembark , plus three passengers with authentic visas ; the remaining 900 or so Jews waited for news of the negotiations which involved , variously , the Cuban President , his director of immigration , the shipping line , the local relief committee , the ship 's captain and a lawyer flown in from the New York headquarters of the Joint Distribution Committee . |
| 2 | National Guardsmen and military police flown in from the USA to help stem looting in the immediate aftermath of the hurricane were withdrawn gradually towards the end of the year . |
| 3 | French military reinforcements , 150 troops , had been flown in from the Central African Republic to evacuate foreign nationals in Kigali . |
| 4 | The competitors were in various categories for judging and were to be judged by professionals specially flown in from the States . |
| 5 | ‘ Someone got in from the sea-wall . |
| 6 | When I got in from the airport — yesterday , give or take a week — the flat felt lightly dishevelled , hurriedly lived-in , as if the cleaning-lady 's efforts had been briskly cancelled or mussed . |
| 7 | A midwinter day … the wind to the north , the sky in rags , hail whipping in from the islands in dark squalls . |
| 8 | As he entered the paved courtyard the rain came whipping in from the sea , lashing against the car and obliterating everything . |
| 9 | ( IBM never did and probably never will do anything without proper training , planned in from the beginning . |
| 10 | Which megastar was about to beamed in from a Hollywood poolside to give a transatlantic Tory thumbs up ? |
| 11 | Replacing Norman Lamont at the Treasury with Kenneth Clarke , drafted in from the Home Office , may improve the government 's image . |
| 12 | As the froth turns in from the sides and the coffee begins to rise in the pot , it is removed from the heat and a little is poured into each cup to distribute the froth . |
| 13 | Many gardeners believe that an informal pool should be planted liberally , with waterlilies obscuring areas of the water surface , and reeds and rushes tumbling in from the garden . |
| 14 | Five wickets toppled for 65 in the lunch-to-tea period , the first three to a fiery Malcolm , who steamed in from the Nursery end and seemed to think he was Waqar . |
| 15 | When this happens it is time to celebrate and consider all the various offers raining in from the major labels . |
| 16 | ‘ so you really think , ’ she said , ‘ that that poor little chap is going to zoom in from the clouds and wipe us all out ? ’ |
| 17 | The late evening sun slanted in from the west . |
| 18 | The puppy was probably encouraged to jump up when he was small and everyone thought it was quite fun , but now he is large , and has probably just come in from a swim in the pool and Aunty is standing there in her Sunday best . |
| 19 | She opened the door before Massingham had time to ring , her handsome shield-shaped face composed under the light brown fringe , and looking in her shirt , slacks and leather jerkin as elegantly informal as if she had just come in from a country walk . |
| 20 | But one of them is a copy-editor , I think that is what he is called , and he told me that he thought the item had come in from a friend of Leila 's . ’ |
| 21 | Otherwise whoever it was would probably have come in from the corridor . |
| 22 | Said his friend-cum-mentor , Irving Layton , in looking back over the period , ‘ I had a very sharp feeling in the early fifties that poetry in Canada had come in from the cold and was starting to gain momentum . ’ |
| 23 | OVER the past two years , Swedish investors have come in from the cold . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Ray had come in from the country bank and we sat with Margaret through the short service . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The train had come in from the sidings and stood in the station , warm and pulsing , its engines reattached , the horses and grooms on board and fresh foods and ice loaded . |
| 28 | The majority of domestic workers are young women without any formal education who have come in from the countryside . |
| 29 | ‘ This report has just come in from the Environments Officer . |
| 30 | It was a relief when Stephen Copley , the Senior Chemist , arrived just before ten , bustling in as usual , his rubicund face with its tonsure and fringe of black curly hair glistening as if he had come in from the sun . |