Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb pp] in [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | no did n't like how he grouted it because she said there , things like a little nick in the tile , if he 'd gone in with the grouting it would n't of shown any and he did n't |
| 2 | But William 's grandad was too busy working to notice or care , riding shotgun to a great clattering brute of a knitting machine that reminded him of the Irish cobs he 'd broken in for the brewery ; he could knit thirty fully fashioned stockings an hour , sixteen hours a day . |
| 3 | Mind , he 'd crashed in on the situation pretty damn quickly , stepping in and being nice to her almost before she had dried her eyes , trying to get her on the rebound . |
| 4 | Michael had been hitting the phone , recruiting some key staff from hotels he 'd worked in in the past . |
| 5 | He 'd got in with the punks and seen immediately what they were doing , what a renaissance this was in music . |
| 6 | He had given in about the purchase of the land , of course . |
| 7 | For the sake of a quiet life he had given in to an unreasonable request and only now did he fully realize what it meant . |
| 8 | He had moved in with an older man , TV director Roger Brackett . |
| 9 | She had bought Martyr 's Cottage before his appointment as Director of the power station and he had moved in by an unspoken agreement that this was a temporary expedient while he decided what to do , keep on the Barbican flat as his main home or sell the flat and buy a house in Norwich and a smaller pied à terre in London . |
| 10 | He stretched and picked up the phone , but before he could dial he realised he had cut in on a conversation . |
| 11 | After he had taxied in to the terminal and parked the plane , he had checked the right engine and its hydraulic system with one of the Aeroflot engineers . |
| 12 | He had come in at the door , he had lain down with her , he had been her lover . |
| 13 | He had come in for a book of stamps , and when he had got it he joined Breeze , who was waiting on the Green . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Then he remembered the time that he had walked in on the Politburo meeting and arrested Beria . |
| 16 | A taxi had dropped him and his luggage at the main railway station , he had walked in through the entrance with a porter in attendance ; and that was that . |
| 17 | McAllister looked at him from under the long dark eyelashes which had won his heart from the very first moment when he had seen them , on his sofa , adorning the unconscious girl he had carried in from the street . |
| 18 | I think he 's put in for a . |
| 19 | But I mean he 's sucked in at the minute with Linda cos she wants him to put his money with her as well you see . |