Example sentences of "[vb past] in [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we saw Helen Stoner 's light , Holmes and I got in quietly through the window . |
| 2 | We taxied in close to the runway and were all pushed down the exit ladder to make a sprint for the terminal building ; no automatic concertinaed walkways here . |
| 3 | Softly , he sighed , drew in deeply on the cigarette , blew the smoke languidly towards the leafy canopy and said : |
| 4 | We moved in closer to the stream and , attracted by something ( though now I have no idea what ) I went to the stream edge . |
| 5 | She seemed to have dropped her voice and moved in closer to the phone as if to avoid the chance of being overheard . |
| 6 | C. S. Lewis was given rooms in New Buildings and moved in shortly after the end of the summer term , 1925 . |
| 7 | Chapman had kept a close watch on Speirs ' feud with Bradford City , and moved in just at the right moment . |
| 8 | Joan had no wish to live in Denbigh Terrace , a house filled with all Branson 's memories and few of her own , and the pair moved in together on the Duende . |
| 9 | Grandparents who moved in only at the very end of their lives , just for a few last months , rarely left much of a mark unless earlier contact had been important . |
| 10 | Leeds boss Doug Laughton moved in quickly for the 31-year-old former Test forward after he was listed at £20,000 at his own request . |
| 11 | Leeds boss Doug Laughton moved in quickly for the 31-year-old former Test forward after he was listed at £20,000 at his own request . |
| 12 | Yeah , yeah six minutes past the hour so there , yeah , so they kept giving you doubts , now if you 're getting on this train make sure you get out at Lemington , so at about twenty past twelve , the twelve six went out from platform eleven , why , cos that will upset everything then , by , few of the trains kept coming round , then they said were very sorry but the Shrewsbury train will come in at platform ten that 's where we 're all waiting , so the ready train be outside somewhere , so , that came in just as the , the twelve , six went out about twenty past twelve these in and this girl got up so we said do n't get on this , you 'll never get to Birmingham you get on here , wait until we get on we said , cos they changed the train , oh she was getting all worked up , she come from Middlesborough , well I said well , well , anyway , we said no , there , there 's no trains for university no , nobody will be going at the right time will they ? |
| 13 | Usually everyone left the house around the same time ; she liked to have the table cleared before she closed the door behind her , so the place looked respectable when they came in again in the evenings . |
| 14 | They began to set the table , growing relaxed and easy , enjoying the formality of the room , when Moran came in again from the fields . |
| 15 | The little laundry maid who came in daily from the village was dismayed to find Miss Alexandra in the laundry room asking what clear starch was and demanding to be shown how to use a goffering iron . |
| 16 | They 've all finished early , they 've unless they came in late with the order or something , extras or something . |
| 17 | Some of the men who came in late in the war had not joined up until after the older prisoners had been shot down . |
| 18 | The standard scratch was at 75 when 19 year old Bradley came in late in the day with a score that included no fewer than seven birdies . |
| 19 | When I came in early on the Saturday morning , I was very surprised to find that Mr Jimmy Mackenzie — patrolman — had washed all the glasses for me — unasked . |
| 20 | When , that first night , she went to her own bungalow , I was left mostly on my own , though Alec came in early in the evening to lend a hand . |
| 21 | News of public events poured in ceaselessly through the German loudspeaker and the secret wireless . |
| 22 | PRAISE and cash poured in yesterday after the Mirror 's shock issue on Somalia . |
| 23 | THEY FADED IN again outside the Temple of Turhan Bey . |
| 24 | As the next moonless period was in early March , there was some time for reorganization , and with the Eighth Army dug in defensively along the Gazala line there was no major offensive in the offing . |
| 25 | The session was short , the smile fading from the face of the accused as Mrs Balanchine described in detail how the car had come storming around a blind corner and swung in close to the wall where they were waiting to cross . |
| 26 | Now , carrying a cardboard tray loaded with teas and coffees and soft drinks cans , she stepped in again from the street and felt the silence of the alley as it clamped in around her . |
| 27 | So they pulled in ahead of the taxi rank in the underpass , and the one next to Joe leaned across him and opened the door , and almost in unison they told him to bugger off home . |
| 28 | She was hard at work in her jealously private workshop , though she called in briefly at the library from time to time , and I was invited back to the Lodge for meals some evenings . |
| 29 | He looked in briefly at the unconscious girl . |
| 30 | By and large they fell in happily with the exhortations they received from the Arab world not to take any unauthorized political initiatives . |