Example sentences of "and [vb past] in [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both are no doubt splendid residences in their own ways , but the fact is they are different and lived in by different people . |
| 2 | They were found at the bottom of drawers , in filing cabinets , and stuffed in amongst other papers . |
| 3 | John stood 6ft tall and weighed in at 13½ stone , so he was ideally equipped for his onerous responsibilities although , like many big men , he was a quiet and serious fellow — a Sunday School teacher who frequently declined to play on Good Fridays or Christmas Day . |
| 4 | In 1875 Francis Seymour Haden , FRCS , advocated by means of three letters to The Times a disintegrating coffin ‘ … of some lighter permeable material , such as wicker or lattice-work , open at the top , and filled in with any fragrant herbaceous matters that happened to be most readily obtainable . |
| 5 | Two days before the concert , Fernie Quinn , the only capable oboist in the vicinity , was taken ill , at which point Lady Barbirolli , who was an oboe player of some renown in Britain , offered to take the part and filled in with considerable distinction . |
| 6 | I never ran marathons , but gradually increased my distance , starting with a 30-mile race , then the Isle of Man 40 on the TT course , where I did well , and the following week I ran from Edinburgh to Glasgow , which is about 50 miles and came in about second or third . ’ |
| 7 | Pepe tapped on the door and came in with two glasses of what looked like rum and cola . |
| 8 | However , three LCA crews saw a Very light above the mist and came in with three motor gun boat escorts . |
| 9 | It would be reached by a railway tunnel from the beach and sealed in with concrete when full ( see diagram ) . |
| 10 | The Prime Minister has , like Eden before him , become both bogged down and boxed in by one big issue at the expense of the general election mandate secured only the previous year . |
| 11 | She paused , then took courage in both hands and walked in with deceptive boldness . |
| 12 | I left school and fell in with some gamines ( street urchins ) . |
| 13 | We Zed-bombed the barriers and went in with shielded skimmers . |
| 14 | In Cambridge she quickly established herself as a cult figure of mysterious portent : she claimed to be in love with her brother , whom nobody had ever seen , and went in for gnomic utterances and baroque clutter . |
| 15 | Scuse the errors — will whiz this off and put in for 0800 lift tomorrow . |
| 16 | The peatstacks loomed large to right and left in between each house . |
| 17 | He birdied 14 and chipped in at 15 , and so I thought if he can birdie 16 he might shoot 69 . |
| 18 | He saw service in both world wars , having been called back to the RAF reserve when the Second World War broke out and stayed in until 1947 . |
| 19 | My natural instinct was to go into it ; I went around and sat in with various bands , but they were all so loud ! ’ |
| 20 | The British ambassador in Washington was consulted on a number of occasions by Kennedy , and sat in on top-level sessions of the US National Security Council . |
| 21 | The design was by the Tuscan architect Antonio Averulino , popularly known as Il Filarete , who produced two vast quadrilaterals separated by a huge central courtyard and closed in by square porticos on two floors . |