Example sentences of "[vb past] in [prep] some " in BNC.
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1 | Now I would say to you , without fear or favour , that the only people recruited in that period of my appointment that I would not of had in the Pathfinder Force were people that came in through some rather dubious trap-door . |
2 | Her mother came in with some stewed plums in a bowl . |
3 | This Bobby did , and was cautiously treating himself to oysters at the bar when Minton came in with some sailors and bade him join them . |
4 | Jenny came in with some flowers from the garden which she set in small posy bowls down the centre and James took the pink lustre candlesticks from the mantelpiece and set them among the flowers . |
5 | The so-called Main Force bombers from 5 and 6 Groups further north were usually later on the scene and were very heavily loaded with high explosives and incendiaries , and they came in for some real pastings . |
6 | Not surprisingly the concept of dominant ideology came in for some discussion . |
7 | Irwin , too , came in for some criticism from his own side , notably from Churchill , who was famously appalled by the ‘ spectacle of this one-time Inner Temple lawyer , now seditious fakir , striding half-naked up the steps of the Viceroy 's palace , there to negotiate and parley on equal terms with the representative of the King-Emperor ’ , but generally he was showered with praise . |
8 | W H Smith came in for some surprisingly harsh comment from the financial press last week after the group 's interim results had revealed a 20% drop in pretax profits . |
9 | The involvement of IL-10 in the inhibition of macrophage anti-schistosome effector functions ( James ) , and the Th1 down-regulation which accompanies egg-associated Th2 responses , came in for some debate . |
10 | When the Volvo 700 series was launched , the saloon 's rear styling , though effective in its use of space , came in for some heavy criticism in terms of appearance . |
11 | Antrim 's new president collected 220 votes in all as the finances of the Association came in for some healthy but heated discussion . |
12 | The attitude of men — not just the middle-aged grey-suits at the top but increasingly of young grey-suits who put their career above that of their partners ' — came in for some stick . |
13 | But Labour Party councillors also came in for some criticism from delegates . |
14 | Her assistant breezed in with some figures she wanted , just as she was taking hold of the Palmer & Pearson file . |
15 | Or that they would do as Allen had done already , dog the footsteps of the verderers , shadowing them from the cover of the forest , until they fell in with some outlaws . |
16 | His most successful hero ( and neither word is really suitable , in any case ) is Captain McWhirr of the Nan-Shan , a middle-aged man whose prosaic letters to parents and then to wife , full of comments like ‘ On Christmas Day at 4 p.m. we fell in with some icebergs ’ , bore them into coma . |
17 | I left school and fell in with some gamines ( street urchins ) . |
18 | In the last week , Italian politics became even more chaotic than usual , and Germany went in for some ‘ neo-Nazism ’ . |
19 | He went in for some pretty awful names , Robbie decided — first Sybil , now Petula . |
20 | ‘ Harvest Storm ’ is a great successor , drawing on the weird , Scots-Irish flavour of Donegal music ( check out those strathspeys and highlands ! ) , mixed in with some cool airs and a few cosmopolitan touches . |
21 | Mrs Putt might want a stall cleared out and fresh straw put in for some company she 's expecting , or she 'll want me to hitch up a carriage so she can go visiting . |