Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] in [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Village communities anywhere are notoriously conservative , so when two young cyclists wandered in to the Gasthof Löwen with shoulder-length hair and matching headbands , they received some doubtful glances from the table where five farm-workers sat steadily drinking their way through the evening . |
| 2 | But , as the striker moved in for the kill , the defender retrieved the situation with a splendid recovery tackle . |
| 3 | Second row Paul Warwick got in on the act and full-back David Rowledge stretched the lead to 27–11 with a penalty to add to his earlier conversions . |
| 4 | The light had almost gone from the day now and the forest was becoming bathed in soft , subtle hues of the Purple Hour , Dark blue and turquoise light slanted in through the trees , turning the Wolfwood to a place of dark secret shadows and heavy ancient magic . |
| 5 | Dot peered in through the tiny curtained windows of the dolls ' house and saw quiet furnished rooms , the playroom , kitchen , parlour , waiting to be lived in , a table set for tea , beds to be slept in , armchairs to be sat on . |
| 6 | Ella and Linda bounced in through the open front door . |
| 7 | Three of his goals bounced in off the posts . |
| 8 | A bolero for example , is really just a short cardigan with curved front edges and crossover cardigan just has extra width built in to the front pieces so that they overlap each over . |
| 9 | Edward came in at the french window and stared blankly at his younger sister . |
| 10 | She was hanging up the jacket of her plum-coloured suit when Rebecca came in through the outer door . |
| 11 | There were no windows and only a trickle of light came in through the door behind him . |
| 12 | Again , the light level was subterranean , but there were no curtains so a fair amount of yellow light came in from the streetlamps outside . |
| 13 | The car drove in through the dusty , bleached stone gates to the stone courtyard where a fountain played and cicadas buzzed noisily in the palms and jacarandas moved softly in the hot sea air . |
| 14 | Lucy drove in to the centre of the city before she found a locksmith near the Chemin de la Tourelle . |
| 15 | At Christmas we announced the Sainsbury's/BBC Good Food Wine Taster of the Year competition , and the entries poured in by the thousand . |
| 16 | The light poured in through the window of our room . |
| 17 | Waves poured in like the ocean . |
| 18 | Grey , uncertain light leaked in through the curtains . |
| 19 | When two police cars raced in through the school gates she hid behind a wall . |
| 20 | The listeners tuned in to the German wavelengths because they found Joyce amusing unintentionally or for his anecdotes , or else because they wished to hear both sides of the argument , or even because they did not trust their own authorities to tell them the whole truth . |
| 21 | The C130 Hercules of RAF Transport Command , markings hurriedly painted out , stood near the end of the runway , its engines running up as a car swung in through the raised barrier , and past the RAF Regiment guard . |
| 22 | Koreans flooded in from the new colony in search of work and livelihood . |
| 23 | Where it seemed that this would cause injustice , equity stepped in with the doctrine of " part performance " : if the contract were partly performed , equity would not allow a statute to be used " as an engine of fraud " . |
| 24 | The size of the holes , and the thickness of the surrounding bubbles of enriched galaxy formation , depend on the details of the perturbations fed in to the idealised model calculations , and this offers hope that better observations of these holes in the Universe may reveal information about the kinds of disturbances that made the big bang of creation develop irregularly . |
| 25 | There was the sound of running feet outside and the gate guards piled in through the crack . |
| 26 | More than 40 antique and warbird aircraft flew in for the auction which coincided with the National Championship Air Races . |
| 27 | Around 40 antique and warbird aircraft flew in for the auction , which co-incided with the annual Reno Air Races . |
| 28 | Wroughton airfield near Swindon was the busiest in the world this weekend , as more than fifteen hundred aircraft flew in for the largest rally of its kind outside the United States . |
| 29 | The sky , which had been clear and filled with stars , was clouding over and a moist wind blew in from the sea . |
| 30 | On the last day Seve birdied the first hole and Hale took a six on the second , I can remember the scoring because in those days I had to mark all the cards , and I remember putting Irwin down for a six — and then the card blew in to the bunker on the second and I had to go chasing after it . |