Example sentences of "he [vb past] in [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would talk it over with Charlie when he got in from work . |
| 2 | As for Peter , his marriage to Tamara , a ballet dancer , was in trouble , and he moved in with Vivien who seemed intent on flaunting their affair , to the embarrassment of the producer . |
| 3 | Phillips straight to Hill and that 's a long ball aimed at Ormanroyd Cooper across to cover and you just saw him grimace a little bit again there as he charged in on Ormanroyd . |
| 4 | He had played flanker for his club , Glasgow High-Kelvinside , and no.8 for Glasgow Under-21s , but had become thoroughly established as a lock , the position he played in at Kelvinside Academy in Glasgow , where he benefited from the guidance of the school coach , Peter Billington , for Scottish Schools against Ireland and England in 1985 , for his senior clubs side and for Glasgow at senior district level . |
| 5 | Yeah I like to , I like to have a go at different things I mean the the the other the other lunchtime we had you know he came in at lunchtime and er Shirley had gone somewhere Ann and er I 'll have the chicken kiev for me please so so I went and did it did you cook that for him ? |
| 6 | I mean see last night , we went to bed last night , he came in at noon did n't he ? |
| 7 | So devoted was Meirion that when he came in at dawn once , to get the boilers going , he tripped on a pipe in the shunting shed and broke his forearm . |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't you mean when he came in at dawn ? ’ she breathed provocatively . |
| 9 | He came in on Guy 's unprotected left side , swinging a long pike , clearly hoping to cripple his opponent with the advantage of the weapon 's longer reach . |
| 10 | The Finn also threatened in the air when he came in for headers at the back post . |
| 11 | ‘ No , he came in after lunch . ’ |
| 12 | And when I asked his orchestra 's publicist if Daniel Barenboim would really want to be interviewed immediately after such a lengthy spell of high-altitude incarceration , she said : ‘ He came in by Concorde , he 's just been on a two-week skiing trip with his family in Switzerland — believe me , he 'll be just fine . ’ |
| 13 | The second suspect was a resident of Consett , but on the night in question his wife had given birth to their first child , and the doctor and the midwife both vouched for the fact that the man had never left the house after he came in from work at half-past five until he went to work the next morning , an hour after he had heard his son first cry . |
| 14 | If she put an ashtray in the wrong place , she 'd get beaten up ; if she never put his paper in the right place , she 'd get beaten up ; if he came in from work and his dinner was n't on the table , she 'd get beaten up . |
| 15 | Flavius the Noseless had booked two weeks in Greece for his holidays , so whilst there he dropped in on Archimedes and asked if he could come up with anything . |
| 16 | But he did reconsider next day , when he saw her watching the passage of the porter from the refectory before noon , and following him with her eyes as he turned in between infirmary and schoolroom , where the two small stony cells were built into the angle of the wall , close to the wicket that led through to the mill and the pond . |
| 17 | It was a game , which Pound had played trickily and with zest When he joined in with Blast , he miscalculated and overplayed his hand . |
| 18 | By the by , he called in at London on his way from New York . ’ |
| 19 | It 's in my mind , grandfather , that Lachlan may rue the day he called in on Marion Aluinn again ! ’ |
| 20 | Security was tight as he flew in to Ulster . |
| 21 | Jonathan , 27 , who married just two months ago , had just met brother Christopher , 30 , after he flew in from Italy . |
| 22 | As the debate intensifies over the BBC 's Charter — virtually its right to broadcast — which is up for renewal in 1996 , a younger chairman is needed to take the corporation into the next century , critics say , but Mr Hussey was tightlipped as he flew in from Hong Kong . |
| 23 | out for me and erm , when he went in on Monday , erm it was the other one the lad that actually owns it , so I was in there for about bloody half an hour and we came home with some samples and one that I quite liked it was up on the wall and he said that is my best selling Axminster that I had , and it was like , it was maybe it was a bit too busy , it was , it was greyey and it was all different other colours in it , but it was a lot of flowers on it , it was n't a traditional Axminster you see Mike loves these traditional Axminsters and he does n't really , he wo n't really entertain anything else , erm , anyway I brought that sample home and what else ? |
| 24 | he went in for law . |
| 25 | Well he used to remind of when he went in for tea and erm and you 'd be lucky ! |
| 26 | But he fell in with Southey 's plans , none the less , and agreed that in the meantime they must live frugally in Bristol and earn money . |
| 27 | ‘ He kept in with youngsters to the end , did n't he ? ’ |
| 28 | Erm he put in for Cyprus I think but then everybody puts in for Cyprus . |
| 29 | It was first discovered by Admiral Lord Hanson when he put in at Cape Horn during his four-year circumnavigation of the world ( 1740–44 ) . |
| 30 | Then take the matter of the car jack which , according to Bourke , he smuggled in to Blake who used it to prise away the window bars in order to make his escape from D block . |