Example sentences of "[vb past] in [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is n't the phrase just meaningless , flung in for the rhythm , meaning no more than ‘ by pillar or by post ’ , ‘ by night or by day ’ , ‘ by hook or by crook ’ ? |
| 2 | Tick crept in through the window of the dining-room and surprised Lady Laetitia Winthrop playing at her virginals ( a likely story ) . |
| 3 | And then , as the pale light of morning crept in through the window , she was awoken by the feel of his mouth on her breasts . |
| 4 | As he crept in through the scullery window she would leap from her bedroom and conceal herself in the nettles , unconscious of the pain . |
| 5 | It was the home side who took the lead in the twenty sixth minute when Doug Taylor beat Brian House on the right wing , put in a low cross and Pedro Herbert crept in behind the defence to score . |
| 6 | He came back , and he had been very quick , with an umbrella from which , as he plunged in through the swing door , he was tearing the plastic wrapping . |
| 7 | yeah , but that in which case I think you should try and tie the story in with it became in like the canteen |
| 8 | All shale and weeds and winds that picked up speed as they swooped in off the ocean , this strip of barren land prepared you for the final desolation of the Crumbles . |
| 9 | If there was in operation a good system to prevent alien matter entering the lemonade then someone who worked there must have been very negligent if alien matter got in despite the system . |
| 10 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 11 | They could not open the door , so they climbed down from the roof and got in through the window . |
| 12 | I got in through the back gate without being challenged . |
| 13 | ‘ I came to wake you , and I got in through the bathroom , which you forgot to lock . ’ |
| 14 | Somebody 'd broke in , got in through the bedroom winder . |
| 15 | The DHAC and NILP supporters sought to get back into the chamber ; finding the doors locked , they got in through the mayor 's parlour and were joined in the gallery by Alderman Hegarty and Councillor Friel . |
| 16 | Even the Prime Minister , Stanley Baldwin , got in on the act , speculating upon ‘ the enormous power which the film is developing for propaganda purposes , and the danger to which we in this country and our Empire subject ourselves if we allow that method of propaganda to be entirely in the hands of foreign countries . ’ |
| 17 | Stephen Pullan and Iain Pyman both gave further evidence of the strength of Sand Moor by upstaging clubmate Cage with 68s , while Stephen Burnell ( Brickendon Grange ) and Stoneham 's Alan Mew got in on the act by matching the exacting par of 69 . |
| 18 | Every accusation was thrown at the team , even Tunisia got in on the act . |
| 19 | Second row Paul Warwick got in on the act and full-back David Rowledge stretched the lead to 27–11 with a penalty to add to his earlier conversions . |
| 20 | However , this was before the astronomers , notably Professor Alexander Thom , got in on the act . |
| 21 | After the home club and Southend took the top places , Colchester Joggers got in on the act with the team bronze , a first for the club over this distance . |
| 22 | By the time Adidas and Umbro got in on the act in the late-Seventies , a shirt could be carrying up to 40 little advertisements for the manufacturers , less than subtly integrated into the stripes . |
| 23 | Even their parents got in on the act , when the Mercedes hired to take them to the reception blew up . |
| 24 | The F–104 and T–33 also got in on the act , all are now based at Oshkosh . |
| 25 | Later European governments got in on the act and set about invading and colonizing large chunks of the globe . |
| 26 | Visitors Centre assistant information officer got in on the act when she bravely volunteered for a Harris Hawk to land on her arm . |
| 27 | Now when the Chancellor in the budget said that he would help the poor he stopped short , there were no copper bottomed no copper bottom guarantee and then later on we had Michael Portillo got in on the act . |
| 28 | Even the Granada announcer got in on the act . |
| 29 | Yesterday the Scottish Landowners ' Federation also got in on the act , claiming that the quota sale had confirmed fears about value . |
| 30 | So they got in on the scene and I seen young men that was walking the streets that had nowt to do put a football kit on with G M B written across the front turn out and become super human beings , you never seen nowt like it , they were so pleased to associate with like something like that . |