Example sentences of "we [vb past] in [prep] " in BNC.

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1 We crept in under a low table and covered ourselves with a tarpaulin .
2 They 're all gon na be pissed on Friday cos we got in for nothing !
3 We got in to an unreserved seating area for 13 quid .
4 Yeah we got in to er Roseo and .
5 In fact we checked in at Heathrow at 2pm but our plane did n't take off until nine the next morning .
6 This one was just about right , though it bulged our financial boundaries , and we moved in with the previous owners ' carpets and curtains and little else .
7 We moved in with them , although it meant I had a long journey to the hospital every day and I had to sleep there when I was on call , and we stayed with them until he was nine .
8 but Bob and I did , I could , I could remember the day we moved in to a hundred and eleven er we 'd never , never been upstairs in a house before you see we 'd been brought up in a bungalow and we 'd never ever been upstairs and the thoughts of going upstairs to bed , you know , was fantastic
9 Me ai n't know what was in that glance , but we moved in behind the police .
10 France was devastated and er they had always had a lace trade but we found in after years , this is a point that should n't be missed , that destruction by the Germans and the replacing under reparations , I understood the money came from , anyway the firm worked day and night for years , er left Nottingham the lace centre with the old pre-war machines and France and areas , including Italy , er with the modern machines .
11 The march was longer than I expected and we staggered in at half past six this morning , having done twenty-seven miles in just over nine hours , which is n't bad .
12 Earlier this week we dropped in on a competitor who was going through erm all the motions of getting his erm display ready and we saw what was involved .
13 Kingsley Amis , who wrote an adventure for Bond as well as creating Jim Dixon , reflects aptly on the reasons for his : ‘ What happened was that we came in at the tail end of the literary tradition to the effect that no decent girl enjoys sex — only tarts were supposed to do that .
14 well I am convinced by Andrew 's explanation erm I would like to say in terms of when we look at the staff costs against budget , and we came in at only eleven thousand pounds less , er I think that is a erm that we , we , we can congratulate our business manager , on the good control that 's been exercised over the past year .
15 Well as you 're aware , our philosophy , our policies are to protect and improve services , and a lot of our services , when we came in with our initiative , we started from a nil base , on some of the provision , and we are not prepared to stand by and see diminution of any of the services , if it is humanly possible .
16 It was only as we came in to Maidstone and I started looking for Hospital signs that I began to suffer the nervous Whirling Pits way down in my stomach .
17 The overt thing was that we came in from outside , but I think the hidden thing was that we were women .
18 Tommaso appeared as we came in from the street , hamming it up just the way I remembered .
19 The chapel was small , an altar stood at the further end from the entrance we came in by .
20 By the time we sat down here I thought well considering that we came in by car door to door practically and that when the driving was n't public transport it it 's taken quite a time to get into
21 We drove in after him and stopped about six or seven spaces away .
22 We joined in with a will .
23 Something that we linked in with the frustrations earlier .
24 Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment .
25 Reception We tuned in to all the broadcast channels with the loop aerial and found that some sets gave a far better picture than others .
26 ‘ I think he is now a far better player than the youngster we threw in at the deep end against Wales last season .
27 As we walked in through the door Kalchu looked up from his food and said in a worried voice , ‘ Where 's your karaso , sister ? ’
28 Later , as we focused in on where the changes occurred , we were able to subdivide much further and according to more meaningful anatomical criteria .
29 We were cooking for ourselves so we settled in for the evening and made ourselves comfortable .
30 I only just caught the train , and when , a quarter of an hour later , we pulled in to Lochgair , and I should have got my bag and quit the Sprinter and walked to the house and finally have talked — sober , and not in the context of a game of Alternative Charades — to my father , and apologised , and spent the three hours until the next Glasgow train with my mother and father in some longed-for spirit of reconciliation , I did nothing of the sort .
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