Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] in [prep] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Some of the love passages made me cry to the astonishment of John who came in with the coals . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Jimmy Porter , Leamas in The Spy Who Came In From The Cold ; Comic Heroes — Petruchio ; Cartoon Heroes — The Wild Geese ; Fallen Heroes — Edwin Booth . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Despite the arrival of Pow and Currey ( who filled in for the absent Kolar ) , 'Mere continued to be driven back in the scrums . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Shrieks and whoops heralded two loinclothed South Africans who rushed in from the side cloisters with spears and animal skin tabards . |
| 20 | The issuing of the warrants were directly due to the testimony of key Mafia informers such as Tommaso Buscetta , who flew in from the USA to give testimony to a parliamentary anti-Mafia commission . |
| 21 | If you look at the people who went in for the Olympic Games , right up to the Second World War , erm you would call them amateurs . |
| 22 | Their arguments were supported by a former compositor " now in a position to place books for printing " , who wrote in to the Edinburgh Evening News in 1910 : " Generally speaking , I can get work done in London , as well as in the English provincial towns , under Edinburgh prices , which proves that even with female labour , the Edinburgh printers have a hard task to keep their men fully employed … |
| 23 | In the event it was not going to be Auguste who gave this information but Naseby 's own sergeant , who burst in with the news that the Cowes harbour master had telephoned to announce the arrival of the yacht Osborne with the Prince of Wales aboard . |
| 24 | We had an annual swimming display at school , and this always ended with someone pretending to fall in accidentally , fully clothed , and being rescued by someone who dived in from the side , again fully clothed . |
| 25 | This is apparent to anyone who sat in on the proceedings of a local credit union . |
| 26 | Before I were yeah , she was on , on war work you see on the hand grenades , that was on the , on the ground floor , of course there were a lot of old cottages er the one at the end , and erm there was something about those oh when , when we did erm er when we did erm locks for the erm hotels there were called , they used to say no they used , there would be about a hundred keys for the guests who clocked in for the er for the hotel and they would each be given a key to the same lock you see , and they used to call those keys to pass , sometimes there was more than a hundred keys to one lock but er wait for the bell or |