Example sentences of "[vb past] in [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the middle of the night one of Kiku 's cats got in among the dogs and , when Burun got up to see what was causing the commotion , he found Suragai trying to save the animal . |
| 2 | Opposite was the site of the Royal Palace lived in by the kings of Bohemia from the Hussite Wars in 1419 , until King Vladislav reasserting the rights of kingship in 1484 , returned to the castle . |
| 3 | Or to jeer at the discredited Baltic Communists who rode in behind the thugs , proclaimed themselves in charge in Lithuania and Latvia and then scuttled for cover . |
| 4 | The light had almost gone from the day now and the forest was becoming bathed in soft , subtle hues of the Purple Hour , Dark blue and turquoise light slanted in through the trees , turning the Wolfwood to a place of dark secret shadows and heavy ancient magic . |
| 5 | They walked briskly over to the two cars and Plumpton bent down and peered in through the windows of the Mini . |
| 6 | Three of his goals bounced in off the posts . |
| 7 | Delaney focussed in on the waves piling up tightly one behind the other , like a huge wall in the foreshortened view . |
| 8 | When he reached the fighting , he charged in amongst the Dragoons , shouting loudly and urging his companions to follow him . |
| 9 | As soon as he had apprehended any kidnappers , the state prosecutor moved in on the hostages and he never saw them again . |
| 10 | Military chaplains moved in with the troops , and news of the Christian community came to us through them . |
| 11 | Me ai n't know what was in that glance , but we moved in behind the police . |
| 12 | When the captain discovered this little act of initiative he changed course so that the sea roared in through the ports and flushed passengers and their game of cards from the room . |
| 13 | Thousands drove in for the celebrations . |
| 14 | As the smoke cleared and the dust settled , two fighter planes came in over the fields and circled the remains of the barn . |
| 15 | It was still warm during the day , and the sun came in over the trees of the forest outside the camp . |
| 16 | The model came in with the cups of tea , still glowering darkly at Paula from beneath her fringe of false eyelashes . |
| 17 | Some of the love passages made me cry to the astonishment of John who came in with the coals . |
| 18 | Pooley came in with the drinks . |
| 19 | He came in with the ideas , give the drivers and conductors everything they asked for whereby my training had always been to only give them what they were really entitled to , not give them anything extra but he gave them the earth and that erm did n't sort of go very well for the new Manager who came in , he had a lot of undoing to do there , that this fella had given away , in his six or seven weeks there . |
| 20 | The new nanny , a reassuring figure in her brown Norland uniform , came in with the children 's coats and Victoria automatically dropped the conversation . |
| 21 | Yet most Dissenters did avail themselves of the relief afforded by the Declaration , and some eighty addresses of thanks were presented by various Nonconforming ministers and churches ; addresses even came in from the Quakers , who had refused to have anything to do with Charles 's Indulgence of 1672 . |
| 22 | Again , the light level was subterranean , but there were no curtains so a fair amount of yellow light came in from the streetlamps outside . |
| 23 | Mum came in from the shops and gave us the news that , starting from September , we are to have 2 morning services . |
| 24 | Something that we linked in with the frustrations earlier . |
| 25 | Brawner recalls the young Mario as being ‘ real hard-working and ambitious ’ and tuned in to the cars as if they were human beings . |
| 26 | Here we see the usual linen winding-sheet , parted to show not only the face but the entire body , with the arms placed at his side and turned in at the elbows so that the hands meet over the groin . |
| 27 | From the basic shape it can be deduced that the arms were placed alongside the body , turned in at the elbows , with the hands on the groin . |
| 28 | ‘ I am happy to have afforded you amusement , ma'am , ’ he said ironically , and turned in at the gates of the Lodge . |
| 29 | They looked perfectly ordinary , and they turned in through the gates and went up the drive . |
| 30 | Blanche Arbuthnot turned in through the gates of her old home . |