Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] in [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commercial procedure of dégorgement crept in in gradual steps sometime in the latter part of the eighteenth century , or soon after , and might have been the producers ' response to an increasing number of complaints about their clouded wines . |
| 2 | At the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village eight cops moved in for another raid on a gay bar . |
| 3 | England vice-captain Alec Stewart weighed in with six catches behind the stumps as Glamorgan , with broken thumb victim Matthew Maynard , slumped to 24–5 . |
| 4 | But critics here want more safeguards built in to British courts , so that justice is done . |
| 5 | Antrim 's new president collected 220 votes in all as the finances of the Association came in for some healthy but heated discussion . |
| 6 | Overseas aid came in from many quarters ( including South Africa ) ; the landlocked Zambians brought in health officials from all their neighbours to try to limit the spread of the disease , which nevertheless struck Malawi . |
| 7 | The price-earnings ratio for the larger software companies was 24.7 against just 15.1 for smaller companies , while total market capitalisation to turnover came in at 1.24 for large and 1.11 for small companies . |
| 8 | When agricultural improvers visited Sussex in the war years they had little favourable to say about the situation in general and the Weald came in for wholesale condemnation , although there was some disagreement about the details . |
| 9 | Greville Starkey 's riding of the horse came in for fierce criticism , but he made no mistake in Dancing Brave 's next race , drawing right away from Triptych to win the Coral-Eclipse Stakes at Sandown Park . |
| 10 | The drifters came in to both piers and on a Saturday night , the village was a busy place . |
| 11 | The top-placed battery car came in at eighth place . |
| 12 | — STRESSHOLME Golf Club came in for high praise yesterday after staging the Mizuno Tournament a major event for assistant professionals . |
| 13 | When the much more rigid ‘ composite ’ constructions came in in Victorian times one or two of the racing clippers were built with hulls of deliberately controllable rigidity . |
| 14 | But John Devereux raced in for two tries to keep Widnes in the game before O'Neill scampered through score the winner . |
| 15 | In welcome contrast to the dimness and the heavy , ornate splendour that had gone before , the white ceiling and walls were unadorned and light poured in through several long windows . |
| 16 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Oldham , West said , by the end of the decade , they will unilaterally have slashed £12 billion from the value of SERPS , transferring funds paid in by all of us for the future into private funds run solely for the benefit of the few . |
| 17 | The community care Support Force swung in on hard-pressed SSDs with as much subtlety as a ton of bricks . |
| 18 | He flourished it as one of the dragons curved in for another low pass . |
| 19 | Other sensors synched in with other senses . |
| 20 | The results from the unusual condition fell in between those from the other two conditions . |
| 21 | Britain 's Mick Hill scraped in with 79.66 , to make up the minimum number of 12 this evening but Nigel Bevan was eliminated after overstepping the mark . |
| 22 | THE DEATH of rationing signalled the beginning of Never Had It So Good Britain , and Quaternass creator Nigel Kneale cashed in on this by adapting Orwell 's nightmare Stalinist futurevision for Sunday evening viewing . |
| 23 | Not surprisingly the concept of dominant ideology came in for some discussion . |
| 24 | They had held back at Milfield on the Till , biding their time , until their scouts came in with exact information of the movement of the Scots army . |
| 25 | Kravchenko came in for fierce criticism at the seventh congress of the USSR Journalists ' Union held on Feb. 5-7 , over the return of political censorship of state television , as witnessed recently in the withdrawal of the Vzglyad documentary series and the return by the flagship news programme Vremya to official propaganda and exhortation . |
| 26 | This Bobby did , and was cautiously treating himself to oysters at the bar when Minton came in with some sailors and bade him join them . |
| 27 | Suzi Hoflin came in with two of her pupils and put Ingrid through a reasonable enough gypsy dance routine . |
| 28 | The Sinclair Spectrum came in for particular criticism . |
| 29 | Kate Armstrong came in with another tray of coffee . |
| 30 | When , at last , the deep adit came in below these workings , and connection was made with the deepening shafts , ore from that source was brought out in ever increasing amounts until the Paddy End Mill was closed down . |