Example sentences of "[vb past] in [verb] [prep] a " 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 | A door at the end of the hall opened , and Arkhina came in attended by a serving woman . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The last man in , John Bendall had already injured himself when we were fielding and he also came in to bat with a runner . |
| 5 | He came in running like a fat sow , his uniform 's half burned off his fucking back . ’ |
| 6 | His parachute was caught by turbulence as he came in to land on a school playing field . |
| 7 | The small jet came in to land with a rush at Marco Polo Airport and , brakes squealing a protest , taxied clear of the runway . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When a pupil came in asking for a special book , he would rush and find it before Mr Crangle . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We obeyed and went in to sit in a sombre half-circle round the fire . |