Example sentences of "[vb past] in [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were found at the bottom of drawers , in filing cabinets , and stuffed in amongst other papers . |
| 2 | The Americans backed one faction , the South Africans crept in behind another . |
| 3 | The commercial procedure of dégorgement crept in in gradual steps sometime in the latter part of the eighteenth century , or soon after , and might have been the producers ' response to an increasing number of complaints about their clouded wines . |
| 4 | It was really a good play , ha , and it was done so well , and you were so close to it as well , you got in for two pounds , best thing I 've ever seen . |
| 5 | After the show the band chill out in the car park , meeting Carpettes from around 16 , who got in on borrowed ID , to those in their mid-20s sucking on roaches who have just heard about the band along with The Charlatans UK ( ! ) and want their logo in felt tip on a T-shirt . |
| 6 | And me mother , she lived at , that 's not far from Peterborough , and she er Me father used to go to this here farm , me mother lived , and of course they got in with each other , then they got married and then they wanted to buy a caravan . |
| 7 | It , it worked out , my mum at first thought it were n't too bad cos she got in with one of these special offer things . |
| 8 | I had to do something to keep my flat going and everything , so I got in with these girls , working girls . |
| 9 | He had no objection to telling him when Adam and Anne were returning : next Tuesday on the Iberian Airlines flight from Tenerife that got in at 1.30 p.m . |
| 10 | I 've spent all these years thinking about it , wondering how it got in to that house . |
| 11 | Just but , once you as you long as you got in before twelve o'clock |
| 12 | If they got in before ten it cost only a pound . |
| 13 | I never got in till twelve again today |
| 14 | I did n't spot any that er that were glaringly , do bear in mind that I read this quite late last night after I got in from that , that meeting I went |
| 15 | It is the house that your father lived in for fifteen years . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , given the one-roomed hovels many lived in at that period , there may indeed have been a real improvement . |
| 17 | He lived in at that time just over the road er down the road here and then something went wrong during the war that was over my father and er cos matter of fact when my father come off the dredger erm the Harbourmaster wanted to give him er he give him the push and turned round and he said my father name was . |
| 18 | No , well he was he I knew him quite well because I lived in at that time when I w was on that T V series , I lived at Pinner . |
| 19 | She lives with Roche above the city in a ‘ Californian ’ company house on the Ridge : this suburb , barricaded , fireproof perhaps , but lived in by prospective quitters of the country , supplies a further scene for the events of the novel . |
| 20 | Both are no doubt splendid residences in their own ways , but the fact is they are different and lived in by different people . |
| 21 | Inspector-Generals of Prisons drafted in from other fields with little knowledge of , or interest in , prisons , while ‘ high flying ’ young administrators see the prison department as one to be avoided ( Sharma 1985 ) ; |
| 22 | Police divers drafted in from neighbouring Thames Valley force were yesterday searching an outdoor swimming pool and nearby pond . |
| 23 | The water swirled in over small pebbles , widening into a narrow , deep , fast-flowing stream ; shaded from sunlight by overhanging branches . |
| 24 | I walked around the block , checked in at 6.50 , and ordered . |
| 25 | In the opening scenes of The Quatermass Experiment stock film library footage is used of a V2 rocket blasting off , coupled in with sub-orbital shots of the Earth 's surface as seen from the stratosphere . |
| 26 | We pass the desolate grounds of a school , fenced in by barbed wire and patches of trodden grass . |
| 27 | But critics here want more safeguards built in to British courts , so that justice is done . |
| 28 | The march was longer than I expected and we staggered in at half past six this morning , having done twenty-seven miles in just over nine hours , which is n't bad . |
| 29 | He weighed in at sixteen stone , eleven pounds , which makes him the heaviest man ever to row in the boat race . |
| 30 | With me in the studio is journalist , Dorothy Grace Elder who sixteen months ago weighed in at fourteen and a half and was perfectly happy with it . |