Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [verb] in [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Analysts are forecasting that Zeneca will make taxable profits of about £500 million in the current year , with ICI expected to come in at around £250 million . |
| 2 | Corbett felt hemmed in by the sheer frustration of the task assigned him . |
| 3 | At the time ‘ Space Oddity ’ was written , David had moved in with Mary Finnigan and they launched the Beckenham Folk Club ( in order to raise some money ) which later became an Arts Lab . |
| 4 | The Land Rover 's motor was already running when he arrived in the street , and when Hennessy had clambered in on the passenger side Windeler moved off without even waiting to see if the door was secure . |
| 5 | Kashmir set to give in to kidnappers . |
| 6 | But if Bobby wanted to get in on it now , he 'd have been turned away at the door : the elitists would have laughed at him for being in an indie band and ‘ Loaded ’ might never have been produced . |
| 7 | Titch steered close in to the point and Wycliffe could see the broad path of the Wheel and the mound of turves by which it had been shot into the air before its final plunge into the sea . |
| 8 | Benny struggled to fit in with the saying accurately . |
| 9 | Bryan Thomson had scraped in with a 74 ( 84 gross ) . |
| 10 | By now , ‘ gunman ’ Risdon had checked in with his new Smith & Wesson .22 calibre hand gun at a nearby hotel . |
| 11 | Ray had come in from the country bank and we sat with Margaret through the short service . |
| 12 | In the second half , Joey Beauchamp came flying in like the daring young man on the trapeze . |
| 13 | Phil came running in to the street saying : ‘ He shot my granddad ’ . |
| 14 | If the literary establishment had thought to compare notes they would have realized that every male aura on and off Fleet Street had come in for a bashing . |
| 15 | Said his friend-cum-mentor , Irving Layton , in looking back over the period , ‘ I had a very sharp feeling in the early fifties that poetry in Canada had come in from the cold and was starting to gain momentum . ’ |
| 16 | Andre had fallen in with the legendary Lafons of Meursault — Dominique Lafon was at college at the same time , and Lafon pere had become something of a mentor . |
| 17 | The rear window of one of the shops looked out over poor Mary 's deposited remains and Martin had to go in through the narrow entrance to flash his lamp on it . |
| 18 | Alyssia refused to give in to any urge to stare at Piers , though she was sorely tempted . |
| 19 | SOUTH AFRICA 'S under-fire coach John Williams refused to give in to pressure as the row over the Springboks ’ rugby tour of France deepened last night . |
| 20 | ‘ You draw good pictures , ’ said the boy , turning over the pages of the note-book till he came to the whole page drawing of a pheasant , the cock pheasant that Philip had coloured in at home . |
| 21 | Owen had closed in behind him and flung a cloak over his head and shoulders , and twisted the skirts of it tight round his body and arms . |
| 22 | This is usually identified with Hollows Tower , still to be seen in a fine state of repair beside the A7 near Canonbie , though it was in a poor state after Lord Dacre had ridden in from England to burn it . |
| 23 | And then Georg had closed in on her , a grumpier , more disapproving , hectoring Georg . |
| 24 | Think of the effort that Professor Higgins had to put in with Eliza ! |
| 25 | If Lili had come in by the back door it had been very late indeed . |
| 26 | Though Locke did go in for some experimental work , his main contribution to the ethos of the Society was to do what Bacon had quite failed to do . |
| 27 | Two weeks later Liz had moved in with her brother and sister-in-law and seemed much happier in herself . |
| 28 | It was four hours later when Madeleine managed to slip in to Jeanne 's cell . |
| 29 | Yet it was precisely to avoid the kind of obstructionism that Britain had indulged in in the past that participation in the new structure was made conditional upon prior agreement to the principle of a supranational authority . |
| 30 | Lewis had pulled in behind the taxi , and was in time to find Morse slowly — reluctantly ? — pushing two £10 notes into the slot of a Charity Bottle . |