Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] in [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Second row Paul Warwick got in on the act and full-back David Rowledge stretched the lead to 27–11 with a penalty to add to his earlier conversions .
2 Ella and Linda bounced in through the open front door .
3 Edward came in at the french window and stared blankly at his younger sister .
4 She was hanging up the jacket of her plum-coloured suit when Rebecca came in through the outer door .
5 Lucy drove in to the centre of the city before she found a locksmith near the Chemin de la Tourelle .
6 Pleasure and pain can not be seen as a lowering of tension and a heightening of tension respectively ; there can be a pleasurable heightening of tension , as in sexual activity ( a new admission compared with the position Freud took in Beyond the Pleasure Principle ) and a painful lowering of tensions .
7 Programme assistant Ian Edgar stood in at the last minute .
8 When his telling cross arrived in the danger area , Stainrod stole in on the blind side of the Perth defence to power the ball home first time from 12 yards .
9 He broke off as Mrs Westaway came in with the cowslip wine and a large slice of seed cake .
10 But Anna did not talk to him , because Sarah came in at the same time .
11 Kenny Logan switched from wing to fullback and Tony Stanger came in on the wing .
12 He was dialling when Miles and Frances came in from the kitchen .
13 Cornelius gazed in through the front window of Molly 's Wholefoods .
14 Former Welsh international Steve Lovell , on a month 's trial , slid in to give Bournemouth a 19th-minute lead from Kenny Rowlands ' cross , and Denny Mundee paddled in with the dexterity of a sculler to score their second after Mick Bodley 's back pass stuck in a puddle .
15 Pooley came in with the drinks .
16 Shane Warne , whose solitary wicket of the series had cost him 228 runs , was rested , while Tom Moody came in for the out-of-form Mark Waugh .
17 Carmarthen drifted to the centre of the course , Fort Marcy ducked in towards the rail , and a gap had appeared .
18 A few minutes later Luch drifted in from the castle .
19 Benny streamed in with the others .
20 The Spartans offence then fumbled the ball and seconds later running back Eric Okatu went in for the Tornadoes ' second T.D .
21 When Hugh 's men had lifted Aldhelm 's body on to the litter , and set off down the path with it towards the Foregate , Tutilo fell in behind the sorry little procession like a mourner , and went silently step for step with them , his eyes still upon the shrouded body .
22 As they hopped out of Armstrong , Fenella leaned in through the meter window as if paying off a real cab .
23 Melanie tuned in to the same image and whispered : ‘ Go on , pick a card , any card , ’ in a Tommy Cooper voice .
24 Like Denny , Eamon McAuley came in from the cold last night for a good win ( pts 6 ) over Manchester visitor Russell Davidson .
25 In the middle of this pother of boots , brothers , and boisterous behaviour , Leonora Hussey came in from the hall , greeting her daughter and chiding her husband for being so late back .
26 When I 'd finished Mavis came in with the mail .
27 Alain came in as the doctor 's car left the house and he stood at the foot of the bed and regarded her sternly .
28 Lyn switched off the set as Stephen came in at the back door .
29 Sapan sailed in beneath the overhang of limestone .
30 Helen came in towards the end , and , with no outside calls for her to go to , Joanna looked rather depressed .
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