Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] in [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage . |
| 2 | But today there was the picnic , and who could tell what would happen once the four of them got in amongst the pine coverts of Ham Park . |
| 3 | The only other fictional world I lived in with the same intensity was that of Louisa M. Alcott . |
| 4 | Like a dutiful citizen , I checked in with the Usher and he looked at his clipboard and said there would be about a fifteen-minute wait , so why did n't I take a seat ? |
| 5 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 6 | ‘ I came to wake you , and I got in through the bathroom , which you forgot to lock . ’ |
| 7 | I got in through the back gate without being challenged . |
| 8 | When I got in from the airport — yesterday , give or take a week — the flat felt lightly dishevelled , hurriedly lived-in , as if the cleaning-lady 's efforts had been briskly cancelled or mussed . |
| 9 | Until I moved in to the Rectory at Seend , I lived briefly at the Bell Inn , St Edith 's Marsh , Bromham , near Devizes . |
| 10 | I moved in to the front room where the disco had moved on to heavier metal ( New Model Army , I think — a band to watch despite their fans ) but still nobody was dancing . |
| 11 | When I saw the next auberge coming up , I drew in to the side of the road , put on my raincoat , and walked along to it . |
| 12 | I had n't intended to speak on the external affairs section , but the discussion had widened so much that I came in with the attached remarks . |
| 13 | I could relive it every time I came in through the front door . |
| 14 | There was a layer of grey-blue smoke in the room at about shoulder level , and a big wave in it , probably produced by me as I came in through the double doors of the back porch . |
| 15 | ‘ I came in through the door . ’ |
| 16 | Then , in the afternoon , I came in from the garden and found her in an armchair , engrossed in a thick , glossy-looking book . |
| 17 | I came in by the south door as usual and locked both it and the door in the grille after me . |
| 18 | Denis and I drove in to the theatre . |
| 19 | The cheapest way to go was via Colombo and so I dropped in on the local centre there . |
| 20 | So I ducked in under the trap . |
| 21 | I joined in with the carols — not that I know all the words dear , but I do know the tunes . ’ |
| 22 | And erm , the other aspect , the last aspect that gave us er anxiety was something I touched on this morning when I joined in at the end of the Selby discussion . |
| 23 | lifting a sheet of corrugated iron which the farmer had ready I rushed in among the little pigs . |
| 24 | I walked in through the door and , feeling a bit lost , I asked the first person I saw if he knew whether the Social Secretary was around . |
| 25 | I walked in at the first door I saw . |
| 26 | Well anyway George did tell me when I popped in after the funeral erm that you were hoping you 'd be here today , I said , oh well I said I 'll leave this here then you can . |
| 27 | I did n't need warming up but I pulled in to the kerb without hesitation . |
| 28 | As I pulled in at the ambulance building , the switchboard had just received a message that a dead body had been found in Cathedral Road . |
| 29 | I called in at the office on one of my days off , to see what was doing , and found that a posting had come through for me to report forthwith to Group Headquarters at Huntingdon . |
| 30 | I had to have a talk with Mrs Rumney and a few days later I called in at The Laurels . |