Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] in [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 'd just got in at about oh half three . |
| 2 | She 'd just walked in to the nearest doorway and spilled the whole thing to a complete stranger . |
| 3 | Now they were in the home stretch , and Sir Ivor seemed hopelessly hemmed in as the American horses pushed for the wire . |
| 4 | Joined possibly joined in with them although it does n't actually say . |
| 5 | She felt utterly hemmed in by the panelled walls adorned with religious pictures , crucifixes , statues and ornate candlesticks . |
| 6 | SHe had eventually given in to a desire to seek Tammuz out , even though SHe already recognised the signs which meant he wanted to be left alone . |
| 7 | They had all squeezed in behind the driver for the run to Canterbury , where there was a Jaguar agent . |
| 8 | Diana seemed distressed , rushing around in a distracted way — oblivious , it seemed to me , of the work we had all put in for her brother 's wedding . |
| 9 | We 've already seen how carefully planned customer flow can encourage the shopper to leave with a loaded basket when she had only popped in for a loaf of bread or a pint of milk . |
| 10 | ‘ We knew the water was dangerous and had only gone in to our knees . |
| 11 | It had suddenly borne in upon her that it was almost midnight and that she was in a strange flat in a strange city , with a strange man who was plying her with champagne . |
| 12 | He did not take his readers back into history so much as bring Thomas Paine , William Hazlitt , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Sir Walter Scott [ qq.v. ] , and others forward , as if they had suddenly walked in from the street . |
| 13 | He was lonely and broke and had already barged in for the loan of a cupful of Quaker oats . |
| 14 | A feeling she had not known in over a decade slipped through her body . |
| 15 | The fog had not set in at that time , late afternoon , and the dockers were able to describe the men as respectable-looking young gents in peaked caps . |
| 16 | She had not looked in on the gallery this visit . |
| 17 | I had also discovered that I had not put in with the ‘ essential documents ’ a vital letter — the one which contained Kathy and Len 's address , so here I was arriving in Perth , knowing nobody and without an address to go to ! |
| 18 | Lessing consulted Dinah , who had come back tired from an evening full of accidents ; the scenery had fallen , the lesser lady had not come in on cue , the leading man had been a failure and she would have to find someone else . |
| 19 | Having prohibited party politics on the grounds that it fostered corruption , patronage and tribalism , Rawlings had finally given in to domestic and international pressure for a return to multiparty politics . |
| 20 | She and Mandy had finally got in from last night 's fiasco around four in the morning . |
| 21 | Madge Allsop had just crept in like a beige dormouse and deposited a salver of tea , though Dame Edna had dismissed her with a beady look when she attempted to sit in our chat . |
| 22 | Dinah had just gone in with the dagger to smear the sleeping servants with blood . |
| 23 | She corrected this idea by always wearing a hat , as though she had just looked in on her way to the garden . |
| 24 | ‘ O Jesus Christ , ’ he said , looking over my shoulder as if JC had just wandered in from the garden , ‘ did you die for this boy ? ’ |
| 25 | John was supposed to come and meet me from work to carry my heavy shopping and then changed plans and he had just walked in with JONATHAN ( proper name JIMMY ) . |
| 26 | She said she could n't stay , that she had just dropped in for a minute . |
| 27 | We turned our ponies and galloped back to the Legation , where we learnt that news had just come in of a great victory for the Shoan army . |
| 28 | Then , when the horse is brought out of the stable , instead of just walking quietly along ( which it would if it had just come in from the paddock ) , it is jumping out of its skin , ready to spook and shy at anything , nostrils dilated , eyes bulging , and tail hoisted high . |
| 29 | It was quite soon after the terrible motor accident that had crippled him for life , and she had just come in from the garden with a bunch of flowers for him . |
| 30 | His stage set , along with the thumping music , flashing lights , and dry-ice clouds that go with it , had just come in from Scotland , and was due to head south as soon as we television camp-followers had done our reports in front of it . |