Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] in from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Someone got in from the sea-wall . |
| 2 | When I got in from the airport — yesterday , give or take a week — the flat felt lightly dishevelled , hurriedly lived-in , as if the cleaning-lady 's efforts had been briskly cancelled or mussed . |
| 3 | The door opened , and someone came in from the night . |
| 4 | On Saturday 4 June , I came in from a morning 's canvassing in Sutton Coldfield to find an urgent message to call Conservative Central Office . |
| 5 | Then , in the afternoon , I came in from the garden and found her in an armchair , engrossed in a thick , glossy-looking book . |
| 6 | Turbin lights and they were for use of coastal command of the RAF first searchlighting for submarines , looking for submarines , the er the Harvards were very much trained as some of them came in from the Navy they were used for training landing of pilots on aircraft carriers , and they had hooks underneath you know the er they were a very good trainer they were still used today , but when we used to go and see films at the pictures they used to use them a lot as Japanese aircraft because they looked alike , and they used to use them as zeros in the American films these Harvard trainers , er and but like as I said they had a experimental department at Helliwells and they used to try out various things to see if they could improve on the structure or the instrumentation things like that |
| 7 | The glen and side of hill were closely becoming blanketed with a fine wet mist which soared in from the crest of the mountain , to shelter on the leeward side . |
| 8 | Somebody crossed in from the right , Lukic blocked a shot from Sheron , but the ball fell at the feet of Flitcroft who could n't really miss . |
| 9 | The east coast of the United Kingdom between Humberside and Norfolk was affected by an " acid mist " which blew in from the sea on Sept. 9 , 1989 , leading to some leaf loss from trees and the corrosion of aluminium instruments . |
| 10 | He walked along the beach , past rows of low cedar huts , his bare feet kicking at the surf which swept in from the north , enjoying the cool water and the tickling sensation of sand being swept between his toes and around his ankles . |
| 11 | Five wickets toppled for 65 in the lunch-to-tea period , the first three to a fiery Malcolm , who steamed in from the Nursery end and seemed to think he was Waqar . |
| 12 | Garotting gangs were said to work in threes — a ‘ front stall ’ and a ‘ back-stall ’ who acted is look-outs — and a ‘ nasty ’ man' who moved in from the rear : hug on' had been used by guards in the convict hulks in order to subdue troublesome prisoners , and that this was where the original garotting gangs had learned the art . |
| 13 | The noise alerted a woman who came in from a side door and challenged him quite sharply . |
| 14 | The ceremony was in the hands of Mr Alexander Dubcek , who came in from the political cold less than 24 hours before , to be elected head of the new-style Federal Assembly . |
| 15 | He was superb in Anne of a Thousand Days , Becket , Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf , The Spy Who Came in From The Cold , Where Eagles Dare — they 've been innumerable . |
| 16 | She knew that some of the men there were shepherds who came in from the country and that all this must be connected with the kidnapping . |
| 17 | Jimmy Porter , Leamas in The Spy Who Came In From The Cold ; Comic Heroes — Petruchio ; Cartoon Heroes — The Wild Geese ; Fallen Heroes — Edwin Booth . |
| 18 | He certainly ‘ came over ’ with considerable force on several occasions — Virginia Woolf , The Night Of The Iguana , The Spy Who Came In From The Cold , Look Back In Anger . |
| 19 | I admire several of John le Carré 's novels , particularly The Spy Who Came in From the Cold and The Perfect Spy , and I like the tension and clever plotting upon which the spy novel depends . |
| 20 | Shrieks and whoops heralded two loinclothed South Africans who rushed in from the side cloisters with spears and animal skin tabards . |
| 21 | The issuing of the warrants were directly due to the testimony of key Mafia informers such as Tommaso Buscetta , who flew in from the USA to give testimony to a parliamentary anti-Mafia commission . |
| 22 | We had an annual swimming display at school , and this always ended with someone pretending to fall in accidentally , fully clothed , and being rescued by someone who dived in from the side , again fully clothed . |
| 23 | Tommaso appeared as we came in from the street , hamming it up just the way I remembered . |
| 24 | ‘ They were a hazard to the Galapagos turtles , they were attacking the sand cranes and also the brown pelicans we brought in from the wild because they were injured , ’ said John Dreyer , for Disney World . |
| 25 | Well , we , we went in from the |
| 26 | and we went in from the end and er down the pitch and in through the saw the physio room and the , the changing room , baths upstairs saw the trophy . |
| 27 | They drove in from the west , on the 243 through Gunzerode , and along the cracked road that led past the IFA Motorenwerk where they once made bicycles and now were being upgraded to motor bikes . |
| 28 | I joined a party to climb down the great west cliffs to the boulder scree of Carn Mør , where we stayed until darkness fell and listened to the calls of Manx shearwater , Leach 's and storm petrels as they came in from the ocean to feed their young , hidden deep under the boulders . |
| 29 | As soon as they came in from the fishing , John — Augustus left Robinson and his potboy to take the tackle and the satisfactory number of dead char back to the inn while he went over to Hause Point . |
| 30 | He came in from the scullery with the coal bucket in one hand and in the other a fat metal cylinder . |