Example sentences of "they [vb past] in [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out of the school , how many of them got in at Sound of Music out of those hundred kids ? |
| 2 | Michael Welby and his wife had hoped to be carried feet first out of the home they lived in at Gerard 's Cross for twenty-five years . |
| 3 | They moved in during September 1950 and just about that time Ninette de Valois announced that she was appointing John resident choreographer of Sadler 's Wells Theatre Ballet for the following season . |
| 4 | Soon after they moved in to Hamilton Terrace it became apparent that association with Minton brought out the petulant , fussy side of Vaughan . |
| 5 | Well we 've had all this trauma about you know , cos I do you , where do you want the he said well do n't see much of daddy or nan and granddad and nana and granddad said they moved in on Christmas Day stay here and Rachael and Steven would n't come up , stay here on Christmas Day , it 's quite likely , quite likely to go with daddy he said but , in many ways I he said I know what we can do is when we send up the chimney we could put nanny 's address , nanny 's address on it , shall we ? |
| 6 | It was a classic piece of Triad mischief — an attempt to unsettle the owners of the Dragon Cloud before they moved in in force . |
| 7 | Perhaps even now they were beginning to circle , to weave around the field , stretching out into a thin and malevolent line as they spiralled in to gorge … |
| 8 | They came in with guns at the ready , expecting trouble . |
| 9 | When they came in to work they park their cars and he was playing in the car park . |
| 10 | They came in to Chernay from the sea . |
| 11 | South , they dropped in at New Orleans , where again she found the reputation was far superior to the reality . |
| 12 | It was raining and there was this walkie-talkie twisting around my head , there was police hats rolling in the road , and they radioed in for assistance . |
| 13 | Now they joined in with Everett 's strategy of going where the big fish were . |
| 14 | They glanced in near panic at our full outside broadcast crew and said : " We 'll have to do it . " |
| 15 | They pulled in at Mustique Boulevard , below the skate bowl . |
| 16 | A few years ago , they went in to Europe with the deliberate aim of sabotaging any tough ban on cigarette advertising , and any insistance on tough medical warnings of the kind that appear today . |
| 17 | It was still early when they went in to Gamages and headed for Ladies ' Gowns . |
| 18 | It was a disastrous night for Andy Roxburgh 's men , despite the fact that they went in at half-time all square at 1-1 . |
| 19 | ‘ After they gave up twelve-furrow work — when the machines came in — they went in for flat-work , wide stetches , even on the heaviest land , of anything up to eighteen yards . |
| 20 | They went in for warmth . |
| 21 | But typewriters we had problems with because , if they went in for repair , you never got them back from the Ordinance Core , and so at one place in Tunbridge Wells we handed a typewriter in and because the army were allowed to buy greaseproof paper , we bought a lot of greaseproof paper which came in the package of a new typewriter . |
| 22 | They went in for half-time one up and within minutes of coming out were two up … with top scorer Craig Maskell raising the roof … |
| 23 | They went in behind Sir George , who waved his huge cone of light around the dark , cramped , circular space , illuminating a semi-circular bay window , a roof carved with veined arches and mock-mediaeval ivy-leaves , felt-textured with dust , a box-bed with curtains still hanging , showing a dull red under their pall of particles , a fantastically carved black wooden desk , covered with beading and scrolls , and bunches of grapes and pomegranates and lilies , something that might have been either a low chair or a prie-dieu , heaps of cloth , an old trunk , two band boxes , a sudden row of staring tiny white faces , one , two , three , propped against a pillow . |
| 24 | You will have to work from measurements they sent in to Stefan . |
| 25 | Either they gave in to Spiderglass demands — or they 'd lose Steel City and all credibility . |
| 26 | And they heard the Prime Minister pay tribute to them when they sat in on Question Time . |