Example sentences of "[vb past] in from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I got in from the airport — yesterday , give or take a week — the flat felt lightly dishevelled , hurriedly lived-in , as if the cleaning-lady 's efforts had been briskly cancelled or mussed . |
| 2 | ‘ Someone got in from the sea-wall . |
| 3 | ( IBM never did and probably never will do anything without proper training , planned in from the beginning . |
| 4 | Replacing Norman Lamont at the Treasury with Kenneth Clarke , drafted in from the Home Office , may improve the government 's image . |
| 5 | Five wickets toppled for 65 in the lunch-to-tea period , the first three to a fiery Malcolm , who steamed in from the Nursery end and seemed to think he was Waqar . |
| 6 | The late evening sun slanted in from the west . |
| 7 | It just bounced in from the garden . |
| 8 | When we run the satellite sequence , you can see all the cloud that moved in from the west overnight and the good news is that the back edge is not too far away . |
| 9 | Garotting gangs were said to work in threes — a ‘ front stall ’ and a ‘ back-stall ’ who acted is look-outs — and a ‘ nasty ’ man' who moved in from the rear : hug on' had been used by guards in the convict hulks in order to subdue troublesome prisoners , and that this was where the original garotting gangs had learned the art . |
| 10 | Dogs , noisily barking , wandered in from the courtyard and were busy sniffing amongst the rubbish . |
| 11 | They drove in from the west , on the 243 through Gunzerode , and along the cracked road that led past the IFA Motorenwerk where they once made bicycles and now were being upgraded to motor bikes . |
| 12 | When Pa came in from the yard , he sniffed the air with a puzzled frown . |
| 13 | A young woman came in from the booking-hall trailed by a ragged child , its legs pocked with the marks of vermin . |
| 14 | His mother came in from the kitchen to ask if we 'd like cheese or fresh cheese with cream . |
| 15 | He was dialling when Miles and Frances came in from the kitchen . |
| 16 | Elise Fox was a woman who prided herself on her ability to deal with crisis , but at eleven o'clock that Saturday night she still lay limp on the sofa in the flat , looking utterly shattered when her young sister came in from the kitchen with yet another pot of strong black coffee . |
| 17 | Fortunately they asked no more questions , and were still discussing the wonderful things I had seen , when Joe came in from the forge . |
| 18 | I joined a party to climb down the great west cliffs to the boulder scree of Carn Mør , where we stayed until darkness fell and listened to the calls of Manx shearwater , Leach 's and storm petrels as they came in from the ocean to feed their young , hidden deep under the boulders . |
| 19 | When Moran came in from the field with Michael he was in high good humour . |
| 20 | Twamley then came in from the backyard and when accused by Riley , he denied it , offering also to be searched . |
| 21 | The door opened , and someone came in from the night . |
| 22 | A little money came in from The Character of Completeness , and he took Dinah out for supper in an hotel one Sunday , when she was not working . |
| 23 | Oliver came in from the balcony . |
| 24 | Film credits include Zeffirelli 's Jesus of Nazareth , with Robert Powell , Rod Steiger and James Mason , The Spy that Came in from the Cold , with Richard Burton , and Raise the Titanic , with Alec Guiness . |
| 25 | The cry that came in from the cold |
| 26 | He was superb in Anne of a Thousand Days , Becket , Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf , The Spy Who Came in From The Cold , Where Eagles Dare — they 've been innumerable . |
| 27 | Jimmy Porter , Leamas in The Spy Who Came In From The Cold ; Comic Heroes — Petruchio ; Cartoon Heroes — The Wild Geese ; Fallen Heroes — Edwin Booth . |
| 28 | He certainly ‘ came over ’ with considerable force on several occasions — Virginia Woolf , The Night Of The Iguana , The Spy Who Came In From The Cold , Look Back In Anger . |
| 29 | It 's an exciting opportunity to see a country that came in from the cold — just do n't expect 130mph plus autobahns ! |
| 30 | Lee , who left the family home in Skelton two years ago , came in from the cold to highlight the plight of the young homeless : the Rural Development Commission says more than 14,000 people in country areas are without a home 12pc of the national total and many of them are forced to leave rural areas altogether . |