Example sentences of "[vb past] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clerk stretched and sucked in the clear morning air . |
| 2 | And then Jayne filled in the first day . |
| 3 | As a last resort MOD might tell us if we filled in the right forms . |
| 4 | For my second slide I chose a bullet chart and filled in the appropriate data form . |
| 5 | He also filled in the usual trader 's form offering to sell the car to the finance company and sent both forms off to the finance company . |
| 6 | Jill left for her coffee break , and Juliet filled in the basic charts . |
| 7 | It was there that he filled in the winning coupon , using a lucky pixie : |
| 8 | Going out on to Des Voeux , she breathed in the hot , humid air . |
| 9 | Mungo breathed in the rich animal smell as they followed Mr Zamoyski through to the back room . |
| 10 | She breathed in the cool Japanese atmosphere she had worked to create for him , looked at the slatted chairs , the pale greys , the yellows . |
| 11 | Cauterets claims to have a more plentiful supply of sulphurous waters than any other spa on earth , to the tune of a million and a half health-giving litres a day , and this is a claim you will not wish to dispute once you have pushed open the swing doors to the neo-Roman ‘ Baths of Caesar ’ and breathed in the warm and all too recognizably sulphur-laden air . |
| 12 | Marcus greedily breathed in the fresh air . |
| 13 | Sam looked out over the flooding river and breathed in the damp smell of the morning as if testing wine for bouquet , and I thought that he lived through his senses to a much greater degree than I did and was intensely alive in his direct approach to sex and his disregard of danger . |
| 14 | She rubbed her cheek against his chest and breathed in the clean male scent of him . |
| 15 | As always , the risk element was the icing on the cake as far as he was concerned He breathed in the fine night air and hummed the tune of Colonel Bogey in time with his silent footsteps . |
| 16 | Emily lifted her head and breathed in the sweet March air , it was good to stand in the garden of Summer Lodge looking out over a tranquil sea with timid waves reaching for the shore . |
| 17 | He acquired a new dignity when he brought in the five o'clock tea tray . |
| 18 | " There you go , girl , " I said at the other end , when I brought in the final batch . |
| 19 | Strand two brought in the Irish government and strand three was to be between the UK and Irish governments . |
| 20 | One night she brought in the usual cocoa and watched while Dad removed a splinter from my palm Dad looked up and caught her grinning . |
| 21 | ‘ Why do you think they brought in the Black and Tans ? |
| 22 | The man told him in sarcastic tones that he could have his £9 back at any time if he brought in the young lady in the photograph . |
| 23 | Cheryl Gillan MP , who brought in the ten minute rule bill , says adopters need the same employment security as birth parents . |
| 24 | Councillor Robert Lee , of West Lothian , said he was certain that , when the Government brought in the right-to-buy scheme , it had not intended that people should be able to buy , with discount , more than once . |
| 25 | Swinburne read Greek and took English metric in hand ; Rossetti brought in the Italian primitives ; Fitzgerald made the only good poem of the time that has gone to the PeoPle ; it is called , and is to a great extent , a translation or mistranslation . |
| 26 | Jesus Christ brought in the Piscean Age ( hence , it is alleged , the ichthus fish sign of the new church and the numerous allusions to fishermen being turned into fishers of men ) . |
| 27 | Lincoln brought in the big guns of William Temple to get bishop and rector to release the curate before the time . |
| 28 | Erm I brought in the old flurry tape , I 've I 've taped I taped our when you 've read my play for me , I erm I taped it and I made a copy for Dave I you know , erm Cybil makes a good effort in that so eventually I 'll lend you the tape . |
| 29 | Acceptance and usage of techniques pioneered by the economist J. M. Keynes ushered in the managed economy . |
| 30 | But little of the necessary reading for " Schools " interested me : I had little interest in constitutional development , political theory or economic growth , none at all in the Industrial Revolution and the technical and scientific achievements that ushered in the modern age . |