Example sentences of "and [vb past] in [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Bragança there was no response from the tower as we transmitted our intentions , landed and taxied in to the little apron . |
| 2 | They could not open the door , so they climbed down from the roof and got in through the window . |
| 3 | Stepping out of the stables , she opened the half-door of the Lagonda and got in on the driver 's side . |
| 4 | I took the ferry back to Picton , drove to Christchurch , and moved in to the flat in the university Hall of Residence which had been reserved for me . |
| 5 | The whole dinghy was jammed and sucked in under the stem , then rolled over , held fast by her steel mast which would not snap . |
| 6 | He affixed a small jewellers ' eyeglass to his eye , and peered in at the device 's workings more closely . |
| 7 | The french windows were closed and he drew his gun and peered in to the gloomy apartment . |
| 8 | They walked briskly over to the two cars and Plumpton bent down and peered in through the windows of the Mini . |
| 9 | Bodie nodded towards the door of Flat 30 and Doyle stepped across to it , dropped to a crouch and peered in through the letterbox . |
| 10 | At last , under the cover of a black moonless night , Grandfather Denknetzeyan stole over to the house and peered in through the kitchen window . |
| 11 | It was a slow , infuriating process , and as A roads gave way to B and Robyn neared her destination already two hours late , the slowly darkening skies became as black and as desperate as Robyn 's frame of mind , until the heavens opened and it started to pour — not reasonable , perfectly acceptable drops of rain from a warm July sky , but pounding , penetrating torrents that battered and bounced off the roof of the jeep and seeped in through the ill-fitting windows . |
| 12 | Across the highway , the driver of the second rig swung his wheel hard over and accelerated in through the gap in the wake of the three fire tenders . |
| 13 | OTHERS have preferred to select the right machine for the duty and ground conditions and hired in for the job . |
| 14 | Lesley turned smartly left as the lights changed , and wound her way by back-streets to the parking-ground on the edge of the shopping centre , a multi-storey monstrosity of raw concrete , at which she gazed with resigned distaste as she crept slowly up to the barrier and drove in to the second tier . |
| 15 | He could see the grey ruffled silk of the sea on the left as they banked and came in towards the airport . |
| 16 | He added : ‘ I qualified in 1948 and came in with the health service . |
| 17 | It 's possible that he tiptoed down the passage and came in by the main door . |
| 18 | Anna shut the door again , she did not know that Mena had followed her , and walked round the house and came in by the terrace , a smile on her face . |
| 19 | He smiled and came in from the terrace . |
| 20 | In London in 1969 he concluded that Rolling Stone would be an extremely fashionable thing to be involved in , and dropped in at the magazine 's Maddox Street offices . |
| 21 | Then she had descended through the familiar outer layers of Dreamspace , and faded in on the bus . |
| 22 | I curled up in the shade of the parasol and tuned in to the natural static . |
| 23 | Brawner recalls the young Mario as being ‘ real hard-working and ambitious ’ and tuned in to the cars as if they were human beings . |
| 24 | The questionnaire on page 35 of this booklet should be completed and handed in at the Sport and Recreation Display on enrolment day or at the Sports ' Centre Reception . |
| 25 | Machine-franked mail must be faced , securely tied in bundles and handed in to the post office . |
| 26 | We reached the gateway and turned in under the adobe arch with the name Hda LUCINDA plaster-embossed in large letters . |
| 27 | Here we see the usual linen winding-sheet , parted to show not only the face but the entire body , with the arms placed at his side and turned in at the elbows so that the hands meet over the groin . |
| 28 | ‘ I am happy to have afforded you amusement , ma'am , ’ he said ironically , and turned in at the gates of the Lodge . |
| 29 | This news set Berwick in a stir of even greater activity , especially when , that same afternoon , a fleet of ships appeared off the mouth of Tweed , coming from the south , and turned in towards the port . |
| 30 | While Northumberland was imprisoned in the Tower ( 1605–21 ) , Warner brought his books from Syon , and joined in with the learned discussions of the earl and his other mathematical and scientific clients — Thomas Harriot , Robert Hues , and Nathaniel Torporley [ qq.v . ] . |