Example sentences of "[vb past] in [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , right after he and Mr. Mendez left , a mustered-out soldier from Thomas came in looking for passage to Bisbee . |
| 2 | George came in looking like death . |
| 3 | ‘ The story goes , ’ I told him , as we drove up to Llanberis after meeting at Bangor station , ‘ that you were in the Radziel and a woman came in collecting for charity . |
| 4 | I 'll be like Geor Geo George 's mother one year and his mo and his mother was in her seventies he came in says to daddy ho gosh ! |
| 5 | Stephen came in to change for dinner , thoughtful and brooding . |
| 6 | She came in bubbling with excitement ; all evening she had brimmed with some secret mirth . |
| 7 | ’ You have very similar motives in someone as charismatic as David as you do in the mute lad I played in Trapped In Silence . |
| 8 | ‘ I went in to look for adventure , but I found love , ’ Dorian told Lord Henry . |
| 9 | When western doctors went in to look for thyroid and other illnesses , they could not tell whether the apparent increase they discovered in these things was due to radiation or to the fact that no one had done such a thorough diagnosis before . |