Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] in from " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought it a great feat that she had got in from the Point in an hour and a quarter . |
| 2 | It was a relief when Stephen Copley , the Senior Chemist , arrived just before ten , bustling in as usual , his rubicund face with its tonsure and fringe of black curly hair glistening as if he had come in from the sun . |
| 3 | His 38th-minute effort came straight from the dream factory , which was appropriate considering he had flown in from EuroDisney only three hours before kick-off . |
| 4 | By a coincidence the letter had been waiting for her on her dressing-table when she had got in from the pictures the previous night , just after she had been thinking and talking of Hilda . |
| 5 | Reproaching herself for not having unlocked it when she had come in from the main door , she rose quickly and went to open up . |
| 6 | long , very nice , very posh , erm I do n't know what me dad 's is like , er me mum was laughing er yesterday erm with er doing all this work she 'd done a load of washing and pegged it all out and when she 'd got in from work dad had ironed it all |
| 7 | Significantly , the greeting trill is normally done when they are on the move , usually when they have come in from outside and are about to move off towards the place where they expect food to be waiting . |
| 8 | It was what should have happened to him when he had come in from Athens , and had n't . |