Example sentences of "[coord] in [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In came the clothes shop owning , rugby playing manager Joe Moss , and in came a traumatic realisation that bedsit jabbering and glorious friendships were not enough . |
| 2 | As we settled ourselves , the boardroom door opened and in came the stocky figure of a man I had met , in quite different circumstances , a couple of weeks before . |
| 3 | There was a short lull following this exchange , and then the door opened and in stepped the young man who had bought the mice and the toffee a few days ago . |
| 4 | The class started , and I was in the middle of reading aloud a prose passage from Galdós when the door opened and in walked the fair-haired god I had glimpsed in the gallery . |
| 5 | Gone are the ties round the feet and in comes a full , loosely fitting single-piece garment , pleated at the neck but still with the top-knot ; the face is completely exposed , showing the features in a peaceful attitude of repose , the limbs no longer with a stiff formality but a far more relaxed naturalism . |