Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] in [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BSC will retrospectively censor the output of all mainland TV stations , but will have no jurisdiction over programmes beamed in by satellite from abroad . |
| 2 | The three brothers crept in on tiptoe to leave jugs of iced lemon juice by my bedside . |
| 3 | Clients came in at 45p plus , only to see the share price drop rapidly to 18p , although it did later recover . |
| 4 | Reception from conventional ground-based transmission equipment is so bad that many families can watch television only if they receive signals piped in by cable . |
| 5 | Nikita Smidovitch , whose team of 20 inspectors flew in from Bahrain at dawn , said the surprise inspections were specifically related to the long-range missiles . |
| 6 | None of these pupils had used a diagram to assist them to obtain their answers , although a few diagrams were found among the descriptions of methods sent in by teachers in one liaison group . |
| 7 | It is likely also that the practice of swallowing a paste made of powdered pearls indulged in by Francis Bacon among others was derived from India , where it was established in Hindu usage . |
| 8 | In recent weeks his perky figure has turned up twice in the winners enclosure on Northern tracks and when Dance of Words went in for Mick O'Toole last Friday night at Downpatrick this was his seventh winner since his return to Ireland . |
| 9 | Blue Cross staff say they do still want to see sick or injured animals brought in for treatment . |
| 10 | Live snakes stood in for ropes , constricting viciously . |
| 11 | Also the ghost stories of certain houses came in for comment and there is a long note on the haunting of Calgarth Hall . |
| 12 | Did they get excited when a new supply of lapis lazuli came in from Afghanistan ? |
| 13 | More and more Dark Elves flowed in from Naggaroth . |
| 14 | All Wednesday evening and into the night , companies trickled in with announcements that their kit was being used as part of Nynex Corp 's new Nynex Enterprise Services high capacity digital private line service ( CI No 2,148 ) : the system will use more than 100 Sparcserver systems from Sun Microsystems Computer Corp to provide the services , and they will use Tivoli Systems Inc 's software to manage the services ; Dynatech Corp 's Parallax Graphics unit supplied its XVideo system to display digital video coming from up to two channels of live video display and one-channel video output , and Synernetics Inc , based in North Billerica , Massachusetts says it will supply a switching hub for the Enterprise Fibre Distributed Data Interface part of the system . |
| 15 | Miners flocked in on foot and horseback , by cart and camel . |
| 16 | Three hundred Catholic miners marched in from Cleator Moor , four miles away , intercepted him outside the meeting-hall , beat him as hard as they could , and left him for dead . |
| 17 | In 1926 would be the General Strike when Welsh miners marched the two hundred miles to London , their trail easy to follow by the black-blood spat along the road , while back at home the troops moved in for fear of revolution . |
| 18 | The helicopter pilots reported in by radio . |
| 19 | There is little evidence of either the presence or practical aid of Russian priests in the afflicted rural areas , though a considerable number of West European churchmen came in with relief organizations . |
| 20 | Until the 1860s or 1870s the natural increase in the local population was sufficient to fill the vacancies in the pits , but then the sinking of deep mines to work the Silkstone and Barnsley seams on a vast new scale increased the demand for labour to such an extent that immigrants poured in from Staffordshire , Lancashire , Cheshire , other parts of Yorkshire and elsewhere . |
| 21 | THREE hand grenades were among 476 weapons handed in to police during a month-long weapons amnesty in Greater Manchester . |
| 22 | His work as a paid negotiator caused him to travel through most of New South Wales arbitrating in disputes , taking part in conciliations and talking , talking , talking as industries grew up in the prospering state and workers flooded in from Britain , mostly from Ireland , to claim their share of what were meagre wages . |
| 23 | On Sept. 30 , Russian troops stationed in Tajikistan , reinforced by an extra 800 troops ordered in on Sept. 28 , took control of Dushanbe airport . |
| 24 | It is primarily intended for carers , and draws together practical hints and ideas sent in by carers of people with Alzheimer 's Disease , on subjects including household tasks , exercise , using transport , music , games and gardening . |
| 25 | They then returned to the Print Room , while guests went in to luncheon in the Great Hall . |
| 26 | John Sinclair , who runs Cliveden so successfully as a luxury hotel , and his attractive wife , guests went in to dinner in the dining-rooms . |
| 27 | Against the protests of many of their salesmen , then , the Central Authority and Area Boards gave in to government pressure to restrict promotional advertising and hire purchase schemes in order to curtail the over-rapid growth of demand . |
| 28 | It 's beautiful to think there 's a man who spends his life going from hotel to hotel , paying chambermaids to let him look in beds slept in by women , in the hope of finding some hairs ! |
| 29 | The other dealers chipped in with suggestions . |
| 30 | Visitors were still mainly local — the days when eager buyers jetted in from Japan and Paris are long gone — but the Association estimates that 80% of the sixty-one dealers did ‘ some business , including five to ten sales of over half a million dollars ’ . |