Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] in [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A little money came in from The Character of Completeness , and he took Dinah out for supper in an hotel one Sunday , when she was not working . |
| 2 | The unsmiling housekeeper came in with the tea things . |
| 3 | However some water got in at the front . |
| 4 | J. Chapman , Sledmere Drive , Acklam , Middlesbrough : I was a final year pharmacy student in Sunderland and I was setting up apparatus for a chemistry experiment , when another student came in with the sad news that the King had died . |
| 5 | The inrush of fresh air came in through the room , circulated , inter mixed with the vapour laden air in the lounge . |
| 6 | First the social worker went in at the old man 's request , and tried to persuade the daughter and son-in-law to leave . |
| 7 | One day a German officer came in to the camp to supervise work that was being done on some primitive drains by Polish forced labour . |
| 8 | Allen asked , and as though to point his question they came to a place where another track came in from the right . |
| 9 | Another set pitched in from the north of the village , another from the south . |
| 10 | A bolero for example , is really just a short cardigan with curved front edges and crossover cardigan just has extra width built in to the front pieces so that they overlap each over . |
| 11 | But i it grew slowly over the weeks and I think Christmas was an example of just the actual logistics of what we did at Christmas must be something of a feat in that so much stuff came in from the volume of presents and then the way in which they could be distributed . |
| 12 | The chief inspector climbed in over the sill , eased down the window and found herself in the hall . |
| 13 | The private club faced closure before the Japanese firm stepped in with the 2,000-fish donation . |
| 14 | Arguments about merit have never really gone away , and many people have felt that the extra effort put in by the best students need to be recognised . |
| 15 | At the same time a balaclava-masked soldier rolled in through the window where the stun grenade had come from , his Kalashnikov automatic aimed at the dummy that stood by the opposite window . |
| 16 | Where the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries gave way to the nineteenth , things became crisper : you read of a profusion of Elizas and Thomases , of beloved wives and lamented parents : white marble crept in with the grey limestone . |
| 17 | A little breeze came in through the open window and set the hanging light swinging , so that her face was now shadowed , now glistening pale in the electric glare . |
| 18 | we finished the story and we got onto the rhymes I presume and a little body sidled in through the win through the door and he sort of sat there looking pathetic you know , I said would you like to come and sit on my knee ? |
| 19 | The original model was made in wax ; it was then encased in a clay mould and molten metal poured in through the feet ; the hot metal melted the wax and displaced it , filling the mould . |
| 20 | Had she not been nervous , Lydia would have been angry , for she had realised that she was , herself , a domestic beast penned in against the night in a frightening little box of night that was all her own , vulnerable to destruction by the very bounds of its definition . |
| 21 | The patio door stood open and a flurry of vanilla-scented air blew in from the laburnums . |
| 22 | Cold air drifted in through the front door . |
| 23 | A few local lines were built first , and then a larger company stepped in with a grand strategy to create a trunk route and compete for valuable traffic . |
| 24 | Brilliant light dazzled in at the left-hand window as they swept past Balnaguard , Balmacneil , Kinnaird . |
| 25 | Downstream an ancient felucca lay in against the bank , its hull the colour of granite . |
| 26 | As the promised rain swept in from the sea Penry had climbed the cliff path from Lee Haven with his bundle of driftwood , but as he reached the Neck a small patch of bright colour had caught his eye far below . |
| 27 | A black cab drew in to the pavement a few yards ahead of them . |
| 28 | There is no substitute for actually practising a bargaining activity and role playing is a useful method used in off the job courses . |
| 29 | A large black automobile pulled in opposite the building , and a woman in a grey fur coat got out . |
| 30 | At the same time , a gradual decline set in with the advent of freight transportation on the roads . |