Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Lorrimer would have let in anyone from the Lab , I suppose ? " |
| 2 | He looked at me as if I had trodden in something on the way in . |
| 3 | I have never heard this case made in anything like the explicit fashion in which I have just outlined it , and I do not think it ever would be publicly made . |
| 4 | Three days later he was confiding to his diary that the night bombardment made him ‘ think of that nightmare room of Edgar Allan Poe , in which the walls closed in one after the other . ’ |
| 5 | All this though was some way from any quantitative expression of conservation of ‘ energy ’ — a term first used in something like the modern scientific sense by Thomas Young at the beginning of the century . |
| 6 | RICHMOND Golf Club produced a remarkable family double when Peter Hughes and his son both holed in one on the same day . |
| 7 | In the short space of time she had been in the ATS she had become aware how easily she attracted the opposite sex , a power which did not appear to have been conferred in anything like the same degree on her contemporaries . |
| 8 | Beautiful women , dressed in anything from the flamboyantly obvious to the understatedly elegant , weaved in and out of the crowds , some of them hanging on the arms of men old enough to be their grandfathers . |