Example sentences of "[vb past] in [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the game going into added time Michael Galwey , after good work by Geoghegan , Clarke and Bradley , got in for an Irish try . |
| 2 | Jewellery worth £450 was taken after a thief got in through an open window . |
| 3 | We got in to an unreserved seating area for 13 quid . |
| 4 | Austin , Texas-based Dell Computer Corp keeps them coming — yesterday added seven new 80486-based Dimension personal computers at from $1,400 including colour monitor and enhanced graphics built in through an integrated local bus video system : the systems also include 4Mb , 170Mb disk , 3.5 ’ and 5.25 ’ floppies , 512Kb video RAM MS-DOS 6.0 and Windows 3.1 installed , and mouse . |
| 5 | In the late afternoon , slow to go home , he dropped in on an elderly doctor friend and played tennis . |
| 6 | Close to dawn she forced herself into bed , but she was still wide-eyed when the maid came in with an early-morning cup of tea . |
| 7 | Ilse came in with an orange-coloured book . |
| 8 | So I came in with an American-made guitar ( the T-60 ) in a case that retailed for 350 dollars at a time when a Les Paul was 1,000 dollars and a Stratocaster over 800 . |
| 9 | So I came in with an American-made guitar ( the T-60 ) in a case that retailed for 350 dollars at a time when a Les Paul was 1,000 dollars and a Stratocaster over 800 . |
| 10 | The recorder came in with an adagio-like slowness and gravity , momentarily wobbled off-key , then recovered . |
| 11 | Bolton , unbeaten before Saturday 's match , fell behind in the opening minute when right-winger Ryan Hill drifted into the penalty area , met a cross from the left , and fired in from an acute angle . |
| 12 | Instead officers climbed in through an open window and arrested Mr Bellamy . |
| 13 | Before the school teacher could answer , there was another rap on the door and Beasley scampered in like an overgrown puppy , casting inquisitive glances at Jim Lancaster and the two police officers . |
| 14 | At the end of the book , however , there are thirty-two pages of publisher 's advertisements , dated 1885 , which have not been tipped-in but bound in as an integral part . |
| 15 | ‘ Thing is , Barbs barged in at an inconvenient moment when my brothers were moving some stuff into my place , and they came over all paranoid and looked at her very old-fashioned , and while I know they would n't do anything to her , now she 's gone missing I ca n't help wondering . |
| 16 | Once in the vagina it 's a different story , with the progress of the sperm reined in to an average speed of two feet every twenty-four hours . |
| 17 | It was getting on for ‘ good night ’ time when I fell in with an old lady who complained that the naughty children of Sligo pulled her ivy down and swore at her . |
| 18 | We went in with an open mind , but I have to be honest , the presentation was so abysmal , that there was no way that we could in fact continue with them , and we have the same problem with the cleaning contract . |
| 19 | There was a great deal of encouragement and a helping hand for those finding it tough , mixed in with an occasional piece of mild blasphemy as yet another pilgrim went sprawling on the wet peat . |
| 20 | She was n't one of these poor deprived kids who slipped in through an open window or an inadequately locked door and then did not know better than to steal a television or a video . |
| 21 | At each town the Captain had to greet the mayor and they tucked in to an excellent meal afterwards . |
| 22 | But his world super-middleweight title fight with Roberto Duran , ushered in with an awesome display of fireworks to mark the opening of the largest resort in Las Vegas , turned out to be a stalemate in styles , a fistic folly in which the two outstanding exponents of the Eighties brought the decade to a close amid booing and jeering . |
| 23 | Neil Fairbrother chipped in with an unbeaten 61 as Lancashire cruised to maximum batting points . |