Example sentences of "[vb past] in at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The room was low , and precious little of the falling day crept in at the one small , grimy window . |
| 2 | However some water got in at the front . |
| 3 | Once at Frankfurt 's Rhine-Main airport he had collected the keys of a Golf Corbio from the Hertz desk and driven the twenty-four miles on the A66 to Mainz where he checked in at the Europa Hotel on Kaiserstrasse . |
| 4 | Brother Cadfael was just emerging from the door of the infirmary in mid-morning , after replenishing Brother Edmund 's stores in the medicine cupboard , when they rode in at the gatehouse before his eyes . |
| 5 | He affixed a small jewellers ' eyeglass to his eye , and peered in at the device 's workings more closely . |
| 6 | He grabbed Joseph roughly by the shoulder as the boy peered in at the window , and pulled him away . |
| 7 | Outside two young men peered in at the lighted women with their bottles and Jonquil 's cans of Carlsberg . |
| 8 | The Shaws moved in at the beginning of December 1906 with a married couple , Henry and Clara Higgs , to look after them . |
| 9 | The boyfriend moved in at the beginning of the summer ; he gets by doing casual work on the farms . ’ |
| 10 | He never stopped in at the Susweca for refreshment after he was finished for the day . |
| 11 | Police with truncheons waded in at the San Siro stadium as fighting broke out , although there were no immediate reports of severe injuries . |
| 12 | The basic recipe is a reduction of white wine and brown fond de veau lié with a julienne of gherkins and mustard stirred in at the last moment . |
| 13 | At Portsmouth , Crabb was met by a local MI6 officer , using the cover name ‘ Bernard Smith ’ , and together they booked in at the Sallyport Hotel where ‘ Smith ’ gave his address as ‘ c/o Foreign Office , London ’ . |
| 14 | He booked in at the special executive reception on the eighteenth floor , reserving an executive suite on the twentieth floor . |
| 15 | So he booked in at the John Radcliffe Cardiac Unit … close to his home in Marlow . |
| 16 | He dropped in at the still extant Paperback Shop . |
| 17 | In London in 1969 he concluded that Rolling Stone would be an extremely fashionable thing to be involved in , and dropped in at the magazine 's Maddox Street offices . |
| 18 | The father-of-three from Whiston ( right ) was one of the visitors who dropped in at the Pumphouse yesterday where a Drinkwise Fun Day was underway . |
| 19 | Deciding that his lead was comfortable enough to make a precautionary stop , Senna came in at the end of lap 48 . |
| 20 | He came in at the side door as though he knew his own way . |
| 21 | Kingsley Amis , who wrote an adventure for Bond as well as creating Jim Dixon , reflects aptly on the reasons for his : ‘ What happened was that we came in at the tail end of the literary tradition to the effect that no decent girl enjoys sex — only tarts were supposed to do that . |
| 22 | A new style of official entertaining came in at the Palace and still survives . |
| 23 | In the main gatehouse tower on the first stack , Moray was asking of the guard-captain whether the Countess was at home when the door from the first of the bridge-corridors was flung open and a young woman came in at the run , hair blown , laughing-eyed , skirts kilted up the better to run , fine bosom tumultuous — as unusual a Countess of Dunbar and March as was the castle of which she was chatelaine . |
| 24 | Lyn switched off the set as Stephen came in at the back door . |
| 25 | He left Helen and went to have a bath and in the cold steamy bathroom there came to him this vision of a distant unreal Helen looking — well , radiant was the unexpected word that came to mind — looking not her usual self at all in some frock that glowed and billowed and rustled as she came in at the front door late , pink-cheeked , a touch dishevelled and greeted by the stone wall of Dorothy 's disapproval . |
| 26 | Edward came in at the french window and stared blankly at his younger sister . |
| 27 | Well as you know er to be a basic rate taxpayer , you 're paying twenty five pence in the pound , apart from the er the new rate you know the first two thousand five hundred you get at twenty percent , which came in at the last budget . |
| 28 | But Anna did not talk to him , because Sarah came in at the same time . |
| 29 | In the morning the sun came in at the window and woke me . |
| 30 | Pensions for the aged came in at the beginning of the twentieth century . |