Example sentences of "[vb past] in at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 However some water got in at the front .
2 Once at Frankfurt 's Rhine-Main airport he had collected the keys of a Golf Corbio from the Hertz desk and driven the twenty-four miles on the A66 to Mainz where he checked in at the Europa Hotel on Kaiserstrasse .
3 Brother Cadfael was just emerging from the door of the infirmary in mid-morning , after replenishing Brother Edmund 's stores in the medicine cupboard , when they rode in at the gatehouse before his eyes .
4 He grabbed Joseph roughly by the shoulder as the boy peered in at the window , and pulled him away .
5 He affixed a small jewellers ' eyeglass to his eye , and peered in at the device 's workings more closely .
6 The Shaws moved in at the beginning of December 1906 with a married couple , Henry and Clara Higgs , to look after them .
7 The boyfriend moved in at the beginning of the summer ; he gets by doing casual work on the farms . ’
8 He never stopped in at the Susweca for refreshment after he was finished for the day .
9 Police with truncheons waded in at the San Siro stadium as fighting broke out , although there were no immediate reports of severe injuries .
10 At Portsmouth , Crabb was met by a local MI6 officer , using the cover name ‘ Bernard Smith ’ , and together they booked in at the Sallyport Hotel where ‘ Smith ’ gave his address as ‘ c/o Foreign Office , London ’ .
11 So he booked in at the John Radcliffe Cardiac Unit … close to his home in Marlow .
12 In London in 1969 he concluded that Rolling Stone would be an extremely fashionable thing to be involved in , and dropped in at the magazine 's Maddox Street offices .
13 The father-of-three from Whiston ( right ) was one of the visitors who dropped in at the Pumphouse yesterday where a Drinkwise Fun Day was underway .
14 In the morning the sun came in at the window and woke me .
15 Kingsley Amis , who wrote an adventure for Bond as well as creating Jim Dixon , reflects aptly on the reasons for his : ‘ What happened was that we came in at the tail end of the literary tradition to the effect that no decent girl enjoys sex — only tarts were supposed to do that .
16 Pensions for the aged came in at the beginning of the twentieth century .
17 When the tax came in at the beginning of 1863 , vodka became cheaper and more readily available , state revenues held up , and the former monopolists of the retail trade began to invest their accumulated capital in railways , banks and mines .
18 In the main gatehouse tower on the first stack , Moray was asking of the guard-captain whether the Countess was at home when the door from the first of the bridge-corridors was flung open and a young woman came in at the run , hair blown , laughing-eyed , skirts kilted up the better to run , fine bosom tumultuous — as unusual a Countess of Dunbar and March as was the castle of which she was chatelaine .
19 I remember somebody came in at the shop and says the Newminster School had been sent home , but where , which school 's that ?
20 He came in at the side door as though he knew his own way .
21 A new style of official entertaining came in at the Palace and still survives .
22 Deciding that his lead was comfortable enough to make a precautionary stop , Senna came in at the end of lap 48 .
23 Kenny Milne , who had to deal with the vagaries of a vicious swirl when he threw in at the lineout , thought that the Hastings ' boot was the big difference between the games against France and Wales .
24 Here we see the usual linen winding-sheet , parted to show not only the face but the entire body , with the arms placed at his side and turned in at the elbows so that the hands meet over the groin .
25 From the basic shape it can be deduced that the arms were placed alongside the body , turned in at the elbows , with the hands on the groin .
26 They turned in at the yard of a two-storey stone house which had a red tiled roof .
27 It turned in at the gate and came chuntering up the track to pull up beside them .
28 Two riders turned in at the approach to the castle , the rest of the cavalcade swept onward through the gate , flung open to give them passage , and vanished in a flurry of spume and fine mud along the foregate .
29 Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment .
30 ‘ I am happy to have afforded you amusement , ma'am , ’ he said ironically , and turned in at the gates of the Lodge .
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