Example sentences of "had [vb pp] in [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos it 's an outdoor job , it 's a three shift system for those on the bottom , er early , morning and late , cos the eight hour day had come in at this time . |
| 2 | She had come in with fresh water to bathe his back and hands , and stole extra time to finish the job , because he was conscious and willing to lie still . |
| 3 | By that date Moscow had provided a mere three and a half million roubles , and one million had come in from other gubernii . |
| 4 | The waiting-room was moderately full and there were several clients who had come in from neighbouring villages . |
| 5 | Of the new ‘ Nepmen ’ , two were Jews who had come in from some other guberniia , and the other three all had military experience but little capital in goods or cash . |
| 6 | Yet someone had come in by that door , very softly , and was now motionless just within it , hesitating to advance into the choir and interrupt the second office of the day . |
| 7 | Somewhere , affection had crept in on both sides . |
| 8 | Claims for damages against British accountancy firms have proliferated since the 1970s , when the aggressively litigious environment that US accountants had operated in for many years spread to the UK . |
| 9 | That , for some reason , almost made him give up , not the pain , but the familiar bit of furniture , the bed he had slept in for fifteen years , now hopelessly astray and as it seemed attacking him . |
| 10 | Since they had got in with this crowd , she had not felt very happy . |
| 11 | That being the case , the breeze she felt was probably being caused by air which had got in at low tide being forced out at high tide . |
| 12 | Half of the essays were reprinted , with slight alterations , from For Lancelot Andrewes , while the more recent of them , " Religion and Literature " , " Catholicism and International Order " and " Modern Education and the Classics " , continue the theme which he had inaugurated in After Strange Gods ; he assaults the dominant position of secularism in contemporary culture , and anticipates in lugubrious fashion the barbarism which will descend . |
| 13 | General bewilderment had set in by this year 's quarter-final stage , by which point most of the big names — Toulouse , Racing , Agen , Narbonne and Béziers — had fallen by the wayside . |
| 14 | Murphy had swung in between two newish and very neat grey gateposts . |
| 15 | And black dancers had gone in for contemporary or modern dance because they had felt ballet to be a white art form to be watched by white people . ’ |
| 16 | Would n't have minded if the driver had gone in for some stronger magic — the old Christianity did n't seem to be having much effect on his driving . |
| 17 | With the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate ( NII ) yet to give the go-ahead , or otherwise , for the station to re-start generation again after being shut down since February , 1991 , Mr Moares said it was not surprising that some people had put in for voluntary redundancy . |
| 18 | Caroline had bustled in with some photocopies . |
| 19 | The traumatic experiences the men had already been through — the drama of the inrush of slurry , the knowledge that they were entombed , the foul air they had lived in for two days , and the threat of the gathering gas — meant that the half-mile walk wearing apparatus , and a further one and a half miles to the surface , would be a severe test of their remaining stamina and resolve . |
| 20 | Charles Chaplin left for London , to present his film Limelight , and chose exile when he was told he would be examined on his fitness to re-enter the country he had lived in for forty years . |
| 21 | What a way to return to the city I had lived in for ten too-long years and had left with but a rucksack on my back only a couple of months previously . |
| 22 | The Wilsons were made homeless when the rented house they had lived in for three years was seized by the building society their landlord had not been paying his mortgage . |
| 23 | We stopped for a few hours in Aberdeen , long enough to allow Father to take us to see the house we had lived in until 1939 : Stranathro , at Muchalls , perched high on the cliffs by the road to Stonehaven . |