Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] in [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Perhaps he was in cahoots with the one who got in through a skylark ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | According to my spy ( who came in with a cold ) , BUPA plan to send a team over there shortly . |
| 10 | Twenty five minutes behind Pat at the finishing line was Personnel Training Adviser who came in with a time of three hours 40 minutes . |
| 11 | Some of the love passages made me cry to the astonishment of John who came in with the coals . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The noise alerted a woman who came in from a side door and challenged him quite sharply . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Jimmy Porter , Leamas in The Spy Who Came In From The Cold ; Comic Heroes — Petruchio ; Cartoon Heroes — The Wild Geese ; Fallen Heroes — Edwin Booth . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Despite the arrival of Pow and Currey ( who filled in for the absent Kolar ) , 'Mere continued to be driven back in the scrums . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In the end defeat was taken graciously by the French who joined in with a boistrous wind down session the following day . |
| 28 | The moas have all gone — mostly wiped out by the Maoris , who arrived in about the tenth century AD , and have dispelled the myth that hunter-gathering people necessarily live in harmony with nature . |
| 29 | Shrieks and whoops heralded two loinclothed South Africans who rushed in from the side cloisters with spears and animal skin tabards . |
| 30 | The time was now about nine-thirty , and I must have looked ghastly , for a young nurse who popped in with a set of pyjamas sized up the situation in a second and popped out again , running down the corridor calling for help . |