Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] in [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only got in for a few minutes as half the church was there . |
| 2 | Treleaven , from Hayling , only got in as a last-minute replacement when Michael Welch , on EGU duty in Spain , crushed his thumb in a door and had to scratch from the Salver and Sunday 's Hampshire Hog at North Hants , where he should have been defending . |
| 3 | Now , obviously I 'm not going to talk about profits from the T V division just now , because Thames only came in at the half year , and we 're not including any profits from B Sky B in the half year , but it 's likely that we 'll take some de-loan stock interest in at the year end . |
| 4 | ‘ I only came in on the red , raw minute , ’ she said , ‘ so you 'll excuse me , madam . ’ |
| 5 | When Ceauŝescu personally came in on the act they faked a car accident and tricked up a couple of bodies for the Securitate to send back to England . |
| 6 | One evening in May 1979 they eagerly clambered in after warming up with several glasses of favourite tipple , turned the thermostat up high and set to . |
| 7 | ‘ I only stepped in at Royalbion because you 'd been knocked out . |
| 8 | He seemed so attentive , so clued in to my every word , that I suddenly found the confidence to go on . |
| 9 | The tackle looked two-footed but Hirst argued : ‘ I only went in with one — my right foot scraped the ground . ’ |
| 10 | The roof literally fell in on Montreal last year when storms ripped off their Olympic Stadium 's retractable top , and they finished last in the National League East . |
| 11 | thesis ( Young 1986 ) , Mike Chatterton ( 1988 ) rightly homed in on this question of ethics , saying : ‘ there is reference here to the moral dilemma(s) posed by ‘ insiders ’ using their access to do ethnography and what that entails regarding betraying confidences etc … . |
| 12 | He was able to continue , but eventually came in with an oil leak and a loose tail pipe . |
| 13 | The rabbits mostly came in of their own accord . |
| 14 | And she finally got in at quarter to and she 's , oh Kim said she was in a dreadful state . |
| 15 | Is the top , I mean I broke , had to get in my own house when I locked myself out once when I 'd been in the garden and I , I just got in by leaning through the top window and opening the bottom window , so now I always lock the bottom windows , I do n't bother locking the top one I open it |
| 16 | I just got in from Chateaubriand . ’ |
| 17 | And , I think he just moved in to Muriel 's next door . |
| 18 | When she finally drew in behind the charcoal BMW on the road to Drogheda , she brandished the plastic bag and gestured — lead me on ! |
| 19 | It just bounced in from the garden . |
| 20 | And the searchlights the the battery that we were The camp that we were near , they opened fire and the battery would open fire at that , and the searchlight anyway came in through the window . |
| 21 | His digital watch and the clock on the wall of the administration building foyer tallied at three precisely when Manville finally strolled in through the glass swing doors and headed for the reception desk . |
| 22 | It was like the old-time variety acts who just came in with their music , performed and went away again . ’ |
| 23 | I know it was n't my birthday you just came in with it did n't you ? |
| 24 | As the second show was coming to an end , Lucy sat herself in the makeup chair and made a sullen face and checked her watch frequently , with the idea that Josie should catch her doing it as she finally came in through the door . |
| 25 | Specifically , in the case of Anthony Miers , the Royal Navy submariner who finally came in for a teeny bit of criticism over his methods of disposing of German seamen who rather inconveniently surrendered . |
| 26 | Whereas he normally came in from playing with threads hanging from his sweaters , this one proved very hard to catch and pull . |
| 27 | Well several people did bring in board games but Mr Barnes was ‘ too busy ’ to organise us , so we just joined in with whatever we fancied . |
| 28 | All my favourite high street shops seemed to be offering them if you just walked in off the street so I snapped up several . |
| 29 | The case was solved when Downey finally walked in to a police station earlier this year and confessed to the killing . |
| 30 | 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 ? |