Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] in from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nineteen Cubans and Spaniards were allowed to disembark , plus three passengers with authentic visas ; the remaining 900 or so Jews waited for news of the negotiations which involved , variously , the Cuban President , his director of immigration , the shipping line , the local relief committee , the ship 's captain and a lawyer flown in from the New York headquarters of the Joint Distribution Committee . |
| 2 | Trim back fuchsias brought in from the garden and pot them up in a peat and sand mixture . |
| 3 | However , it became established at Woodford and through Warner 's generosity offshoots were distributed , as were many other rarities raised by him from seeds brought in from the Far East . |
| 4 | This is more cash paid in from the last three weeks actually . |
| 5 | Enemy searchlights probed in from the sea , going out before a renewed burst of shelling and heavy machine-gun fire added to civilian casualties in the town . |
| 6 | Business was brisk , shopkeepers even running out to grab Corbett by the arm and offer a pie , a piece of cloth , fresh fish from the Firth , almonds , nuts and raisins brought in from the nearby port of Leith . |
| 7 | Garlands of flowers and greenery have always been traditionally associated with May festivities , being used to decorate the trees brought in from the woods . |
| 8 | Commodities which travelled in the opposite direction were salt , which came by sea from Cyprus , the Greek islands and Albania , and which was distributed by means of pack animals to Bosnia and Serbia ; and cereals brought in from the Aegean , Cyprus , Asia Minor and Sicily , and used mainly for local consumption . |
| 9 | As we went to press , DEC was getting ready to set up nine new business units as part of its reorganization struggle , some of them reportedly headed by leaders brought in from the outside and others have yet to be chosen . |
| 10 | National Guardsmen and military police flown in from the USA to help stem looting in the immediate aftermath of the hurricane were withdrawn gradually towards the end of the year . |
| 11 | The curator-in-chief in charge of sculpture , Jean-René Gaborit , asked that the courtyards of the Richelieu wing be covered so that his department might at last have the space to show pieces from stores and also sculptures brought in from the Tuileries gardens and elsewhere , many of them suffering from atmospheric pollution . |
| 12 | In Australia 's dry soils there are millions of tonnes of salt blown in from the sea over many millions of years . |