Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [verb] in [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well came from Bar which is er a matter of six miles , six to eight miles out side Girran and you 'd got to come in by foot or by trap . |
| 2 | Mostly she quizzed me about the burglars and I said they 'd tried to get in through the bathroom window and one of them had put a foot through it , probably coming from the roof next door , and I generally made out that there was a whole gang of footpads up there lying in wait for Santa Claus . |
| 3 | People who seemed to have wandered in off the street . |
| 4 | She happened to have dropped in to Charles 's to leave some shopping on her way over here . |
| 5 | He therefore brought Sobers close in at cover and told Gibbs to flight the ball at Harvey . |
| 6 | However , a touch of decadence appeared to have set in by then , in that the tough space bar of Star Wars ( universally recognized as a genre reference to saloon bars in Westerns where it was unwise to order sarsaparilla ) had given way to the court of Jabba the Hutt , full of twitching , pulsating creatures in perpetual motion but lacking menace or much humour . |
| 7 | Vincent barely managed to keep his temper in check in the blast of this ‘ raw north wind ’ that had come howling in through the front door . |
| 8 | Three or four knights had come hastening in at the sound of their lord 's voice . |
| 9 | Brian had decided to move in with me and help pay the mortgage . |
| 10 | The majority of the court , while dismissing many of the arguments that had found favour in Re Anschuetz and earlier cases , did little to advance the position from that reached by the Court of Appeals in Re Anschuetz . |
| 11 | We ( along with our rival colleagues at Christie 's ) had hoped to succeed in including antiques and works of art in the clause of the new Hong Kong basic law which guarantees the exportability of certain types of financial assets after 1997 . |
| 12 | The worrying question marks over Rose McGarry , the events of yesterday , and Emily 's obvious unhappiness had combined to close in on him ; as though the world were shrinking , poised to suffocate him . |
| 13 | She had liked to lie in on Saturdays and Sundays . |
| 14 | ‘ He noticed the Rover he had overtaken closing in on him , ’ he told magistrates at nearby Witney . |
| 15 | He was angered , and for a moment was tempted to reply that Louise herself had managed to fit in to French society , despite her origins and her antecedents , but he curbed himself . |
| 16 | If Knowledge plc had failed to get in by the back door , it was this that brought the ideology of the market-place marching in the front . |
| 17 | Now do you think anybody who was n't already tied in to that wanted to get tied in at that time ? ’ |
| 18 | The rejection policy of non-intervention by many of the constituency Labour parties tended to become tied in with their challenge to the trade-union domination of the Labour Party , and probably lost its impact and relevance in the wider debate about party democracy . |