Example sentences of "[vb past] in [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house they lived in belonged to a German lady , a Miss Wacker , who had been home in her own country when war broke out and was unable to return . |
| 2 | Some of the unskilled youngsters drafted in to help with the decorating did not . |
| 3 | ‘ My constable in Burford is convinced you were still drunk when you rode in to speak to him . ’ |
| 4 | Roy moved in to lodge with Rita and her unsuspecting husband , Steve , 50 . |
| 5 | Hoomey scooted to his feet , but several interested parties moved in to deal with Jazz before he could make a tactful retreat . |
| 6 | Sally Ward moved in to live with her daughter 's family , on the opposite side of Egremont Street , and Peggy Burns went to live with her daughter Meg and her husband . |
| 7 | Munro moved in followed by Carter . |
| 8 | And if we 've got the project quality plan right there should n't be any problems or queries and it did remind me of this Australian er project manager , who I 've mentioned to one or two other people over lunch , who used to sit in a great , a great office , running multimillion pounds ' project and when people came in to complain to him , he used to refer them to the plaque on the wall which said R T F C. |
| 9 | Blaise Cendrars , the writer , saw Modigliani let fall a twenty-franc note one evening when a well-known pauper came in to sit at the next table . |
| 10 | A door at the end of the hall opened , and Arkhina came in attended by a serving woman . |
| 11 | She was near to wishing the spinach back on her plate when Maman came in to bend over her — in her nearness so hot and sweet , her precious body smelling faintly true behind the Rimmel 's Toilet Vinegar and Violette de Parme . |
| 12 | Jack and Alison came in followed by Marcus and Ludens . |
| 13 | She stood up as Wycliffe came in followed by Lucy Lane . |
| 14 | He had scarcely settled to work when his stepmother came in followed by a sad-eyed little King Charles spaniel who immediately began exploring the corners of the room . |
| 15 | The BIL says he worked out a Paul Daniels routine to deal with all the people who came in complaining about it ( count to three — say the magic word — now look in your wallet ) . |
| 16 | All of them failed , from the disastrous Purko Sheep Ranch , where the sheep died because the ranch was at too high an altitude , to the four big grazing schemes which went under in the drought of the early 1960s , when people from outside the schemes , under pressure of need , came in to graze on the permanent waters and massive erosion occurred . |
| 17 | The last man in , John Bendall had already injured himself when we were fielding and he also came in to bat with a runner . |
| 18 | Dilip Vengsarkar came in looking for his fourth hundred in as many Lord 's appearances and immediately joined Shastri in exploiting the unpatrolled third-man boundary . |
| 19 | ‘ Is that right the filth came in looking for your Mickey and the electric went ? |
| 20 | Then , right after he and Mr. Mendez left , a mustered-out soldier from Thomas came in looking for passage to Bisbee . |
| 21 | Sure Ji he came in looking for Jim one morning and Jim was n't there , says he 's in bed so listen I said do you wan na go up and waken him like fuck Jim says when Acky woke me I said what you mean he give you a kiss and he woke you up . |
| 22 | George came in looking like death . |
| 23 | ‘ The story goes , ’ I told him , as we drove up to Llanberis after meeting at Bangor station , ‘ that you were in the Radziel and a woman came in collecting for charity . |
| 24 | I 'll be like Geor Geo George 's mother one year and his mo and his mother was in her seventies he came in says to daddy ho gosh ! |
| 25 | Stephen came in to change for dinner , thoughtful and brooding . |
| 26 | He came in running like a fat sow , his uniform 's half burned off his fucking back . ’ |
| 27 | Where I worked in the university , if a woman came in covered in bruises , no one would say anything , although we all knew what had happened . |
| 28 | As I left his office a young woman from a Polish theatre company came in to discuss with Welch the principles of controlling ‘ income streams ’ . |
| 29 | So so 've you and your girlfriend and daughter came in moved into f into the flats two years ago . |
| 30 | This morning Betty — my cleaner — came in bursting with the news that there was a brass plate outside . |