Example sentences of "[verb] in at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | By late afternoon we 'd stopped in at a number of bars along the pier . |
2 | An elderly female novelist had come in at a quarter to six and Penelope had found herself trying to explain why her latest novel had not been reviewed in the Sunday Telegraph , why it had not been advertised more widely , why copies had not been displayed on the bookstall of a friend 's local station , why it had not yet been reprinted . |
3 | After leaving the letter in a drawer she had gone to a nearby town and booked in at a hotel . |
4 | Wycliffe was booked in at a hotel on the waterfront , up river from the wharf and facing the village of Flushing across a narrow stretch of water . |
5 | The branch road from Dent joins in at a bridge and the hamlet of Cowgill , once a parish in its own right , is immediately beyond : here is a church built in 1873 , a converted school , the pleasant residence and gardens of Cowgill Grange and an isolated terrace of cottages . |
6 | Apparently I had windmilled in at a quarter to ten , with three bottles of champagne , all of which I dropped in one catastrophic juggle . |
7 | WILLIAMS ) came in at a run from the " Coriolanus " matin e e , still in his toga , and just made his position in time . ] |
8 | A few lengths were produced and these amateurish efforts were seen by a director of Coles who was passing through Braintree and happened to look in at an art exhibition in the Institute . |
9 | A self-portrait and a portrait by Jean-Baptiste Greuze were bought in at a sale held at Drouot by Laurin-Guilloux-Buffetaud-Tailleur on 10 March after French museum authorities notified the auction firm the same day that the first work might not be allowed to leave the country . |
10 | We look in at a window . |
11 | She pulled in at a motorway service station and decided on lunch . |
12 | Nazarbayev was sworn in at a session of the republican Supreme Soviet on Dec. 10 , at which the republic dropped the words " soviet socialist " from its title to become the Republic of Kazakhstan . |
13 | The first 1,000 guardsmen were sworn in at a ceremony in Tbilisi on Feb. 23 , the Soviet Army Day public holiday . |
14 | Led by Lt Fusata Iida they flew in at a height of 50ft and within a few minutes the airfield was a smoking mess . |
15 | It 's also a good idea to have a spare machine readily to hand and regularly checked so that it can be wheeled in at a moment 's notice . |
16 | It was one of those cosmic accidents which are no accident , that the next day , when she called in at a bookshop to look for some more Morris titles , she should find on the same shelf the total output of Professor M. L. Vaughan ; and among the rest his : Aurae Phiala : A Pleasure City of the Second Century A.D. She took it down and opened it at random , and the prose caught her by its incandescent fervour . |
17 | They 've seen language labs , which are great , more or less mould away for lack of resources to keep them in working order , and they see micros coming in at a time when everything else is being cut . |
18 | It meets the River Lyon and the rivers pour in at a rate of 370 cubic metres a second . |
19 | Do they see erm , if , if they migrate to the city in the urban areas then they realize they wo n't get a job , and have a job straight away , er well paying job but by actually living in the area they would and taking in at a job and they get a lot of contacts and then eventually after a period of time they job . |
20 | For ages he had been meaning to call in at a place down by the Elephant and Castle where they sold gramophone parts , but it was not until this morning that he had finally got around to it . |
21 | Alice looked in at a scene of comfort . |
22 | Frédéric peers in at a window . |
23 | For the first six months they have to live in at a training centre . |
24 | A small garden that can be taken in at a glance can soon become boring . |
25 | We 're early , so we call in at a pub . |
26 | Call in at a Booking Agent . |
27 | Four members of the press were allowed in at a time . |
28 | The longest came from his great rival , William Ewart Gladstone — that clocked in at a mind-numbing four hours and 45 minutes . |
29 | Paradoxically , ‘ people 's capitalism ’ has been ushered in at a time when the long-term trend towards a greater equality in wealth may have been reversed , and in a manner that has firmly excluded the poorest from acquiring capital assets themselves . |