Example sentences of "she [vb past] in [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she taxied in to the small civilian terminal , Adam watched the three fighter planes ease their pointed noses skyward and climb at over thirty thousand feet a minute . |
| 2 | She flung the fork down , looking daggers at him , and continued : ‘ The house she lived in during the war received a direct hit , and for two days she was buried alive nursing a glass vase belonging to her mother . |
| 3 | ‘ Dejala , ’ they yelled as she rode in for the big swipe and missed it . |
| 4 | Paulus could sense it too as she moved in for the kill to claim a 2-6 , 6-4 , 6-3 victory . |
| 5 | And when she moved in for the kill she was as hard , and as final , as any of her male colleagues . |
| 6 | She slunk in through the French windows , hoping to creep upstairs unseen . |
| 7 | He left Helen and went to have a bath and in the cold steamy bathroom there came to him this vision of a distant unreal Helen looking — well , radiant was the unexpected word that came to mind — looking not her usual self at all in some frock that glowed and billowed and rustled as she came in at the front door late , pink-cheeked , a touch dishevelled and greeted by the stone wall of Dorothy 's disapproval . |
| 8 | When she came in for the second time her throat was like looking at a plate full of strawberries and cream — red enlarged tonsils with a coating of puss . |
| 9 | This week she came in with the garment — very nicely knitted but with the sleeves ( in the stocking stitch ) too short . |
| 10 | When she came in with the junket , the row had obviously developed . |
| 11 | She came in through the corridor , shuffling in her thick black clothes . |
| 12 | Spittals ' hands glowed from the diligent rubbing he was applying to them as she came in through the door at ten o'clock . |
| 13 | She came in through the yard door , and from the moment he saw her , Dauntless could tell she was a sorceress of deftness and strength . |
| 14 | She came in by the side-door just as the clients arrived , and , taking Joanna 's overall from the peg , she followed Sophie into the waiting-room . |
| 15 | As she climbed in to the Glass Coach with her father , Diana had several practical considerations to overcome . |
| 16 | Carefully she turned in through the wide hospital gates . |
| 17 | Refusing the invitation to go in for coffee , Fran hurried back to the car and drove across town , only slowing when she turned in through the gates of the college and made her way along the rutted gravel path to pull up in front of the old sandstone building next to Luke 's car . |
| 18 | When she walked in at the back door Mrs Peterson said : ‘ You 're back then . |
| 19 | She stepped in to the room on the soft carpet and said loudly in French , ‘ What the hell do you think you 're doing ? ’ |
| 20 | It was a great relief to him when she stumbled in through the door in a flurry of snow and he set to and made a cup of tea to warm her . |
| 21 | As she called in at the supermercado , toured the fruit and vegetable market , bought chicken legs from the Dutch butcher , a kaleidoscope of questions formed and reformed itself in her head . |
| 22 | She rang in on the fifth day to say she was no better and did n't feel she was getting anywhere . |
| 23 | In fact , it was the extra revenue she brought in at the baby end that enabled the charity to open up units for cervical cancer , and fund other research into unappealing but equally vital conditions . |
| 24 | That was the reason why she fell in with the man she later married . |
| 25 | She went in through the front door , as always . |
| 26 | Clara , naturally , did not approach the front door ; she went in by the back , and into the kitchen . |
| 27 | She went in by the front door and upstairs to her room ; and was still being torn apart by her emotions . |
| 28 | She went in behind the screen and discovered the old lady 's body half immersed in a tub of water . |
| 29 | No-one cared that she jacked in to the lock on the tutor 's door , feeling around mentally to jig it open . |