Example sentences of "[verb] in [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daffodil Quentin 's runner , Pampering , had been flown in with five others owned by people on the train , all of whom were strolling around with rosettes and almost permanently smiling faces . |
| 2 | Dating of the volcanic rocks of the Hawaiian Islands has shown that each of the main islands was formed in about 1 Ma . |
| 3 | It was really a good play , ha , and it was done so well , and you were so close to it as well , you got in for two pounds , best thing I 've ever seen . |
| 4 | It is the house that your father lived in for fifteen years . |
| 5 | At a temperature of 73–74°F John 's fish 's eggs hatch in about 2½–3 days , but the fry are another day or so before becoming free-swimming . |
| 6 | Yes , one that kicks in at six month 's half salary , the other one that kicks in at twelve month 's on half salary . |
| 7 | Yes , one that kicks in at six month 's half salary , the other one that kicks in at twelve month 's on half salary . |
| 8 | He 's , he 's already come in for one form put it , he 's obviously filled one form in , he came up and he said can I have an application form for that job in the window , so I gave him one and he went , oh well I 've just filled one in . |
| 9 | He weighed in at sixteen stone , eleven pounds , which makes him the heaviest man ever to row in the boat race . |
| 10 | Built in 1935 with her sister , Gneisenau , Scharnhorst weighed in at 32,000 tons . |
| 11 | He thought suddenly of Antony Royd , weighed in at four pounds , doing eleven lengths in four minutes . |
| 12 | John stood 6ft tall and weighed in at 13½ stone , so he was ideally equipped for his onerous responsibilities although , like many big men , he was a quiet and serious fellow — a Sunday School teacher who frequently declined to play on Good Fridays or Christmas Day . |
| 13 | When the fish were weighed ashore , one fish had lost some precious ounces but the other fish weighed in at 12 lbs 3 oz on certified scales . |
| 14 | The 1987 champion berry , a woodpecker , weighed in at 28 drams 4 grains ; not a record breaker this time . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Keith Merrell made 65 against his former teammates and Chris Punchard weighed in with four wickets as Maldon won by 86 runs . |
| 17 | Of the all-rounders , wicketkeeper Marsh , who claimed 70 victims , weighed in with 910 runs at 33.7 and Ellison 415 plus 47 wickets , while Fleming averaged 31.62 with the bat and showed a remarkable flair for bagging high-class , if not always low-cost , wickets . |
| 18 | General Karl Steiner , carried in by two SS men , was already dead from a heart attack , the only good thing about the entire proceedings . |
| 19 | Not that she intended accepting any favours from him , but she knew he was booked in for two nights , which gave her time to return his hospitality if she could not manipulate tonight into a Dutch treat . |
| 20 | Except that she 's got to clock in in five minutes time . |
| 21 | In a cavity between it and the central part of the body , most species have gills which are continually bathed by a current of oxygen-bearing water , sucked in at one end of the cavity and expelled at the other . |
| 22 | The doctor had opened the door suddenly , was walking in with two nurses , directing them to either side of the bed as the heart machine flashed and beeped alarmingly . |
| 23 | Eventually , after she had been joined by two others whose grasp of the English language was as poor as hers , they booked in to two rooms . |
| 24 | Then came three blank stubs , lastly one filled in for fifty pounds cash . |
| 25 | Overall , equations ( 9.78 ) and ( 9.79 ) allow for a signal being fed in at one end of a transmission line , propagating along it and being partially reflected at the other end to give a wave travelling in the opposite direction . |
| 26 | In Faye 's first painting , she had turned out so wraithlike and ethereal that she had secretly weighed herself on Faye 's bathroom scales to make sure she still came in at fifty-three kilograms . |
| 27 | ‘ I finished in 55 minutes and 40 seconds and Tim came in at 59 minutes . |
| 28 | Pepe tapped on the door and came in with two glasses of what looked like rum and cola . |
| 29 | He pressed a button on his desk , and an exceedingly attractive girl came in with two cups of coffee . |
| 30 | She was just trying to think what she could say to bring John back to the subject of the library and its workings when Shirley came in with two cups of tea . |