Example sentences of "[verb] in land [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 His parachute was caught by turbulence as he came in to land on a school playing field .
2 The small jet came in to land with a rush at Marco Polo Airport and , brakes squealing a protest , taxied clear of the runway .
3 They came in to land in a snowscape , the lights along the thin ribbon of recently cleared runway coming into view and stretching out in front of them as the Seneca descended on its final approach .
4 A few days after that Norman Prince , the founder of the Lafayette , flying long and late in an attempt to avenge Rockwell , hit a high-tension cable as he came in to land in the dark .
5 Starting in South Island , you will find that flying in to land amid the snowfields of Mount Cook or the ice of Fox Glacier of Franz Josef in the Southern Alps is something PPL visitors can unfortunately only do as passengers in the fixed-wing or chopper flights that operate out of local airfields .
6 It was like coming in to land on the wrinkled hide of some sleeping behemoth .
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