Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] in [prep] [art] " 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 | From anywhere else it 's a choice of hitting and hoping or laying-up near the opening Braid built in as an option . |
| 6 | He could remember what a flurry Martha Pritchett used to get into when Lady Debrace stopped in for a cup of tea , and how afterwards she would tell them proudly how her ladyship had sat down and chatted as if she were no grander than Nurse Wilks ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Wing Nigel Walker celebrated his call-up to the Wales squad by collecting four tries , including one from a spectacular 70-metre sprint , while Simon Hill weighed in with a hat-trick . |
| 9 | As Rafiq disappeared out of sight at the top of the stairs , Maisie staggered in with a step-ladder and started to put up black drapes at the windows . |
| 10 | The rapid installation of a large number of systems around the country and , in some cases , overseas created a large number of novel problems and as these arose they were fed into the diagnostic expert system in their central facility and were available for consultation when other units phoned in with a problem . |
| 11 | Rex moved in for a cuddle . |
| 12 | Ella and Linda bounced in through the open front door . |
| 13 | Three of his goals bounced in off the posts . |
| 14 | Expenditure above the GREA level results in a reduction of block grant , with a ‘ steepening ’ effect built in above a certain threshold to penalize the high spenders . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Edward came in at the french window and stared blankly at his younger sister . |
| 17 | She was hanging up the jacket of her plum-coloured suit when Rebecca came in through the outer door . |
| 18 | And I went down to this bird 's down by the library two weeks ago and this same fella came in with a gram and he was like that , giving out big smokes . |
| 19 | There were no windows and only a trickle of light came in through the door behind him . |
| 20 | Again , the light level was subterranean , but there were no curtains so a fair amount of yellow light came in from the streetlamps outside . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Lucy drove in to the centre of the city before she found a locksmith near the Chemin de la Tourelle . |
| 23 | At Christmas we announced the Sainsbury's/BBC Good Food Wine Taster of the Year competition , and the entries poured in by the thousand . |
| 24 | The parrot joined in with a screech of pleasure . |
| 25 | The light poured in through the window of our room . |
| 26 | Waves poured in like the ocean . |
| 27 | Grey , uncertain light leaked in through the curtains . |
| 28 | When two police cars raced in through the school gates she hid behind a wall . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But the Redworth Hall hotel , near Heighington stepped in with a surprise Valentines Day treat . |