Example sentences of "he [verb] in [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twice he attempted to overtake , but we had reached the top of the hill before a gap in the stream of cars streaking up on our right allowed him to slip in between the lorry and myself . |
| 2 | We 'll have to encourage him to put in on the table . |
| 3 | She could just imagine him closing in for the kill . |
| 4 | ‘ Did you see him come in through the back door ? ’ |
| 5 | I watched him as far as the corner of the curator 's garden , and saw him turn in alongside the hedge . |
| 6 | As the car which has been sent for him comes in along the odd little elevated motorway , only four lanes wide , most of the city seems to be below eye-level . |
| 7 | Collecting her ticket , she came up behind him again as he checked in for the flight . |
| 8 | Once at Frankfurt 's Rhine-Main airport he had collected the keys of a Golf Corbio from the Hertz desk and driven the twenty-four miles on the A66 to Mainz where he checked in at the Europa Hotel on Kaiserstrasse . |
| 9 | He came back , and he had been very quick , with an umbrella from which , as he plunged in through the swing door , he was tearing the plastic wrapping . |
| 10 | As he crept in through the scullery window she would leap from her bedroom and conceal herself in the nettles , unconscious of the pain . |
| 11 | If , however , he goes in with the public on that day , conceals himself , and takes the painting on the following day , he is not guilty . |
| 12 | When his mind 's on fisticuffs he sits in on the training sessions there . |
| 13 | He got in with the wrong crowd up at . |
| 14 | He headed in in the 31st minute after Wright 's centre had taken a deflection , then scored from the penalty spot after being brought down by Bennett . |
| 15 | He moved in to the new , roomier accommodation . |
| 16 | At the next intersection he drew in against the left-hand wall , peering around the corner into the corridor to his left . |
| 17 | One man who could have a busy day on Sunday if he drops in on the above conference will be Michael Billington , the theatre critic of The Guardian . |
| 18 | When he reached the fighting , he charged in amongst the Dragoons , shouting loudly and urging his companions to follow him . |
| 19 | He came in through the back door on Lily 's afternoon out . |
| 20 | He came in at the side door as though he knew his own way . |
| 21 | Seve Ballesteros , who had shared the overnight lead on 67 , was making no further progress and was still five under par as he came in on the closing holes . |
| 22 | He came in on the Tube as usual , and walked the last quarter-mile . |
| 23 | Yeah , cos we was there in the August , they were n't , we moved in , in the July , there , and the girls were , Matthew was just four , cos just as we moved in our dad took Matthew to Hungary with him , it was like , it was like they were going on the following Wednesday , and he told me on the Friday , he came in on the Friday night , they planned , it was our dad , Crystal and Danielle , Crystal and Danielle , but she said even if I go out in the middle of . |
| 24 | ‘ He came in to the shop and asked me what he should wear on the date . |
| 25 | When he came in for the night some hours later he was still agitated and fretting . |
| 26 | The problems do n't end there ; Kingsley Black had one of his best games for Northern Ireland in Tirana , when he came in for the injured Michael Hughes . |
| 27 | He came in with the ideas , give the drivers and conductors everything they asked for whereby my training had always been to only give them what they were really entitled to , not give them anything extra but he gave them the earth and that erm did n't sort of go very well for the new Manager who came in , he had a lot of undoing to do there , that this fella had given away , in his six or seven weeks there . |
| 28 | He came in from the scullery with the coal bucket in one hand and in the other a fat metal cylinder . |
| 29 | She had made him his favourite bottom pie and onions for supper that evening when he came in from the fishing , and he had gone back down to Mother Russell 's after , for a few ales . |
| 30 | No need for secrets , so Mrs Files telephoned her daughter straight away , then told Frank Grimwood who came by with four brace of partridge from yesterday 's let shoot ; who stopped Alec on the tractor with a load of silage behind ; who met Tom in the grainstore ; who found Mary in the estate office when he went in to fill out his time sheet ; who confided in the postman when he came with the afternoon mail ; who amazed Mrs May in Forester 's Cottage when he delivered her Freeman 's Catalogue and a postcard from her son holidaying in Pouket ; who stunned her husband when he came in from the saw mill . |