Example sentences of "had [vb pp] in [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had dropped in to pick up Bill , who was of necessity going without Faye this year , and the sight of Tom in a black dinner suit and a shirt so white that it was almost ultra-violet had rocked Belinda 's usual state of equilibrium where their friendship was concerned . |
| 2 | As luck would have it , Sophie had had no arrangement of her own for this evening , and , either forgetting our pact , or not taking my need for it seriously as she knew my activities were , on her terms , so innocent , had dropped in to borrow some coffee . |
| 3 | Indeed , just before his interview with Meese , he had dropped in to see McFarlane in his office precisely , McFarlane thought , to agonize over the fact that the diversion was a matter of record : ‘ I put it in a memo to the Admiral . ’ |
| 4 | She was to call him Tom from now on , he had said … she had walked him to his car after he had dropped in to see Faye over lunch . |
| 5 | When she had looked in to clean up the following day the meal was still on the table , untouched . |
| 6 | Even before they had left , his PA , Caroline Amphlett , had come in to take away the tea cups and clear the table . |
| 7 | And then a woman who had come in to sell flowers to the customers overheard their conversation and intervened . |
| 8 | Two men who had come in to quaff down great glasses of cidre were now returning to their scythes in a field opposite , to join a line of sodden reapers there . |
| 9 | But they were going for a walk , they had come in to make him go with them , and they wanted me to go too . |
| 10 | They had spent another fifteen minutes with Leeming before the doctor had come in to check on his patient . |
| 11 | Wayne had rung in to say that he was sick , which meant that the little creep did n't want to drive past the picket line . |
| 12 | Lydia had rung in to say she was chasing a story in the Lake District , though everyone knew that what she was really chasing was the ravaged-looking thriller writer she had met at the launch of his last book and slept with the very same night . |
| 13 | ‘ Let me invite you to dinner in an hour , ’ said George , ‘ and ’ — this was addressed to Mrs Robinson , who had crept in to stand in the doorway and hear the end of the story , and now stepped forward to play a part — ‘ please , let us borrow your daughter for the evening so that we four can be a company . |
| 14 | And so it had remained until the scoops and cranes and bulldozers of 1970s Post-Industrial Man had moved in to uproot the scrub and to build the suburb known as Greystone Edge . |
| 15 | It was the room they had shared for 30 years since they had moved in to claim his inheritance . |
| 16 | Anne had continued to visit the Misses Dolan frequently even after Margaret had moved in to look after them , and been very happy to see her old friends so well cared for and so delighted with Margaret 's lively little girl . |
| 17 | Another person died on the same day and at least eight people were hospitalized with bullet wounds after police had moved in to smash barricades erected by demonstrators at Pec . |
| 18 | In July 1674 , Richard Baxter was preaching in St. James 's Market House when the main beam , supporting the floor , creaked several times with the weight of the people who had crowded in to hear him . |
| 19 | The baldricked and garlanded dancers , from Thelwall in Cheshire , entertained audiences with a traditional display which coincided with news that a record number of visitors had flooded in to see the BNFL exhibition . |
| 20 | A great wedge of MacIans had driven in to cut off the Macleans ' attacking force ; the few men left fighting by the ships had neither time nor numbers to relaunch them . |
| 21 | Jasper had cut in to say that of course he understood this : " Everyone did . " |
| 22 | She had intended to say , ‘ What about you and Janice ? ’ , but before she could finish the sentence he had cut in to tell her , |
| 23 | His 32-year-old mother had popped in to finish her weekly shopping in the local Co-Op store and returned just five minutes later to find him missing . |
| 24 | But even in remote situations I would strongly advise against this , after doing as much in a cottage in Appin only to be greeted by the landlord who had popped in to see if we were alright . |
| 25 | A shopkeeper had a dispute with a customer , a woman who had been waiting for a bus had popped in to mention parking on the footpath at weekends , the school had organised some Maypole dancing and wondered if part of the car park could be cordoned off , somebody else wanted vehicle watch forms . |
| 26 | Late one afternoon Rioja had rushed in to tell them that the whole camp was being evacuated across the border and they must flee before the men who were coming to shoot them reached the hut . |
| 27 | Occasionally he had gone in to sit by Commander Barnwell 's bed and seek comfort in his sea-scoured face and calm eyes . |
| 28 | The George was busy with the stagecoach passengers , two of whom had gone in to bait , the others walking about to stretch their limbs while the ostlers led the exhausted cattle away and brought out a fresh team . |
| 29 | He had gone in to look for adventure , but had found love , he told Lord Henry . |
| 30 | Another man , Walter Latham , had gone in to try and save Lloyd but got into difficulty himself . |