Example sentences of "[vb past] in [prep] [art] [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 I said , ‘ I am older than you , sir ( how easily that polite ‘ sir ’ crept in as a mode of address ! ) — old enough to discover that finding out often leads to less pleasurable states of mind than mere ignorance ! ’
3 Tick crept in through the window of the dining-room and surprised Lady Laetitia Winthrop playing at her virginals ( a likely story ) .
4 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 .
5 As he crept in through the scullery window she would leap from her bedroom and conceal herself in the nettles , unconscious of the pain .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 yeah , but that in which case I think you should try and tie the story in with it became in like the canteen
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 In the end , I got in through a hole in the side , but it was n't easy .
12 Perhaps he was in cahoots with the one who got in through a skylark ?
13 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 .
14 They could not open the door , so they climbed down from the roof and got in through the window .
15 I got in through the back gate without being challenged .
16 ‘ I came to wake you , and I got in through the bathroom , which you forgot to lock . ’
17 Somebody 'd broke in , got in through the bedroom winder .
18 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 .
19 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 . ’
20 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 .
21 Every accusation was thrown at the team , even Tunisia got in on the act .
22 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 .
23 However , this was before the astronomers , notably Professor Alexander Thom , got in on the act .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 Even their parents got in on the act , when the Mercedes hired to take them to the reception blew up .
27 The F–104 and T–33 also got in on the act , all are now based at Oshkosh .
28 Later European governments got in on the act and set about invading and colonizing large chunks of the globe .
29 Visitors Centre assistant information officer got in on the act when she bravely volunteered for a Harris Hawk to land on her arm .
30 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 .
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