Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] in [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 He 's gone part of the way along the r road by doing what you 've just been describing non-executive directors but erm it could be a weakness if he 's seen as a er erm a business man and cavalier as opposed to somebody who fits in with the style that the city 's always looking for .
2 Responsibilities , I mean , it would have to be torn down and build up again it was in such a bad shape , it was really , I mean , terrible , it must of been , it was , it was man who lived in since the second world war , alright , so you get .
3 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 .
4 Or to jeer at the discredited Baltic Communists who rode in behind the thugs , proclaimed themselves in charge in Lithuania and Latvia and then scuttled for cover .
5 Perhaps he was in cahoots with the one who got in through a skylark ?
6 After just two days on the market , the software group has shot up from 70p to 113p — great news for the institutions who got in on the ground floor .
7 Junior Bent ( Bristol City , 12.06 ) , Efan Ekoku ( Bournemouth , 12.07 ) , Adrian Littlejohn ( Sheff Utd , 12.08 ) , Iffy Onuora ( Huddersfield 12.09 ) , Keith Curle ( Man City , 12.10 ) , Rod McDonald ( Walsall , 12.18 ) , Tony Witter ( QPR , 12.19 ) and John Goodman ( Millwall , 12.40 ) , and late replacements Vance Warner ( Nottm Forest ) and Michael Brown ( Bolton ) , who stands in for the injured Stuart Storer ( 12.17 ) .
8 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 .
9 Two people replied — a man who offered to take it away for a fiver and Mrs Morrison , who dropped in for a quick look and said she wanted something for her playroom .
10 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 .
11 According to my spy ( who came in with a cold ) , BUPA plan to send a team over there shortly .
12 Twenty five minutes behind Pat at the finishing line was Personnel Training Adviser who came in with a time of three hours 40 minutes .
13 Some of the love passages made me cry to the astonishment of John who came in with the coals .
14 good recruiting period and we had er thirty o thirty one I think it was or thirty four new members who came in at the general election .
15 It was often her task to carry it up to the little sitting-room , followed by Mary from the village , who came in as a daily maid , bearing a silver jug of hot water and matches to light all the lamps .
16 Thus Jasper 's father might have been the man who was painting the flats and who came in for a cup of tea , or the old lover whom she happened to run into in Denmark Hill , or the neighbour who was moving out of Flat 16 and who came up to say goodbye while his girlfriend was packing their furniture into the rented van .
17 After four weeks every group had interviewed four of the original subjects , plus others who came in for a single session , and they had all accumulated a great amount of material .
18 In 1980 we changed to a system of community and private nurses who came in for an hour or two in the morning and evening .
19 The noise alerted a woman who came in from a side door and challenged him quite sharply .
20 The ceremony was in the hands of Mr Alexander Dubcek , who came in from the political cold less than 24 hours before , to be elected head of the new-style Federal Assembly .
21 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 .
22 She knew that some of the men there were shepherds who came in from the country and that all this must be connected with the kidnapping .
23 Jimmy Porter , Leamas in The Spy Who Came In From The Cold ; Comic Heroes — Petruchio ; Cartoon Heroes — The Wild Geese ; Fallen Heroes — Edwin Booth .
24 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 .
25 I admire several of John le Carré 's novels , particularly The Spy Who Came in From the Cold and The Perfect Spy , and I like the tension and clever plotting upon which the spy novel depends .
26 Old Black Hannah put in an appearance , and one or two other women from the village who remembered Martha as a child , and who , perhaps , shared her liking for the Old Faith ; but apart from them , it was just Mr Drew ( who galloped through the service as fast as he could ) , Jennifer and the two gravediggers , who came in after the blessing and carried the coffin out underhand , dumping it without much reverence into the mortice they had prepared for it .
27 Despite the arrival of Pow and Currey ( who filled in for the absent Kolar ) , 'Mere continued to be driven back in the scrums .
28 Parents who give in to a toddler 's temper will increase the likelihood of tantrums recurring and find themselves becoming more angry .
29 At first the numbers of those who tuned in to the BBC were modest in comparison to those who listened to Pétain 's homilies on Radio Vichy .
30 In the end defeat was taken graciously by the French who joined in with a boistrous wind down session the following day .
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