Example sentences of "[vb past] in [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house they lived in belonged to a German lady , a Miss Wacker , who had been home in her own country when war broke out and was unable to return . |
| 2 | Some of the unskilled youngsters drafted in to help with the decorating did not . |
| 3 | Blaise Cendrars , the writer , saw Modigliani let fall a twenty-franc note one evening when a well-known pauper came in to sit at the next table . |
| 4 | A door at the end of the hall opened , and Arkhina came in attended by a serving woman . |
| 5 | He had scarcely settled to work when his stepmother came in followed by a sad-eyed little King Charles spaniel who immediately began exploring the corners of the room . |
| 6 | All of them failed , from the disastrous Purko Sheep Ranch , where the sheep died because the ranch was at too high an altitude , to the four big grazing schemes which went under in the drought of the early 1960s , when people from outside the schemes , under pressure of need , came in to graze on the permanent waters and massive erosion occurred . |
| 7 | The last man in , John Bendall had already injured himself when we were fielding and he also came in to bat with a runner . |
| 8 | He came in running like a fat sow , his uniform 's half burned off his fucking back . ’ |
| 9 | This morning Betty — my cleaner — came in bursting with the news that there was a brass plate outside . |
| 10 | His parachute was caught by turbulence as he came in to land on a school playing field . |
| 11 | The small jet came in to land with a rush at Marco Polo Airport and , brakes squealing a protest , taxied clear of the runway . |
| 12 | They came in to land in a snowscape , the lights along the thin ribbon of recently cleared runway coming into view and stretching out in front of them as the Seneca descended on its final approach . |
| 13 | A few days after that Norman Prince , the founder of the Lafayette , flying long and late in an attempt to avenge Rockwell , hit a high-tension cable as he came in to land in the dark . |
| 14 | When a pupil came in asking for a special book , he would rush and find it before Mr Crangle . |
| 15 | When Helen came in to help with the spaying operation she looked rather nervous . |
| 16 | Just before she turned the sign on the door round to read ‘ Closed ’ , a woman came in to look at the toys . |
| 17 | Er many members of the public took advantage of the offer of the more detailed appraisal er and indeed came in to look at the detailed consultants reports . |
| 18 | Several joined in to complain about the tribute required by the deputy in Riba . |
| 19 | When the gunmen climbed in to sit on the benches at the side they had to put their booted feet on the prisoners . |
| 20 | Platt , moved up front as Les Ferdinand 's minder , came close with a shot parried by Benedettini and Bruno Muccioli raced in to head over the bar as the ball appeared to be dropping into goal . |
| 21 | A continuous series of 15mm ( ½in ) diameter holes is drilled into the wall near dpc level and a silicone resin fed in to soak into the brick or stonework . |
| 22 | About 40,000 brokerage accounts were transferred to Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc. in the USA , while in London the Bank of England and city institutions stepped in to deal with the consequences of the collapse on the foreign exchange . |
| 23 | She had just enough money left after selling up in Mexico to buy a small finca in Ibiza , where she settled in to survive on a war widow 's pension and the proceeds from her annual harvest of almonds . |
| 24 | Before I had completed a question about whether he would like to be Chancellor , MacGregor broke in to say with a smile , as he had to : ‘ But I am enjoying being at transport . |
| 25 | Very few erm Continental countries would consider entrusting the administration of justice erm to erm people who took an afternoon or a day off work every week or so and went in to sit on the Bench . |
| 26 | We obeyed and went in to sit in a sombre half-circle round the fire . |
| 27 | I think if she went in to live in the back woods , you know , way beyond |
| 28 | Went in to look for the seeds so I m I might have changed , just gone , I du n no . |
| 29 | ‘ We gave in to comfort in the end and bought the suite instead . |
| 30 | The sensitive lacquer which was subjected to UV light is washed away , leaving the artwork positive reproduced in etch-resist on the board . |