Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb pp] in [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even their religious faith was subtly different from her own : they seemed hemmed in by a regiment of saints , feasts , rules , indulgences , penances and novenas , and everyone seemed to be permanently on guard against saying or doing anything that might be deemed heretical . |
| 2 | Then they 'd gone in for a look . |
| 3 | They 'd laid in for a siege with dozens of eggs , cans of luncheon meat , and tea . |
| 4 | On the gallops they 've huddled in against the hedgerows to watch and study the form . |
| 5 | And this is , I mean , what they 're asking , actually to be fair to them they 've put in for a thousand pound against three . |
| 6 | I decide they 've crashed in like the SAS do after lobbing a stun grenade — barging in screaming to disorien-tate the enemy . |
| 7 | They 've got in on the shelves there . |
| 8 | They had moved in from the garden during a cold spell in November . |
| 9 | Denktash argued that UN proposals would mean that 40,000 Turkish Cypriots would be forced to leave homes they had lived in since the Turkish invasion of the island in 1974 . |
| 10 | There was one early proposal about archaeology which became a series called The Blood of the British , where they had come in with the idea of the series . |
| 11 | Old Joseph was glad he kept the Christmas cards from his son and daughter in 1987 , for every year since then he has taken them out and displayed them as if they had come in with the post . |
| 12 | He was glad that he did n't throw out the Christmas cards from his son and daughter in 1987 , for every year since he had taken them out of the suitcase on top of the wardrobe and displayed them in his own room as if they had come in with the morning post . |
| 13 | He had not returned any fulsome gratitude to his staff for all the work they had put in during the day ; but he always found it difficult to express his deeper feelings . |
| 14 | They had got in through a cellar window at the back and made their way up to a small office on the third landing where , according to Cyril , the sole employee had been there man and boy until he became fossilized and had to be removed feet first from his station . |
| 15 | Ask around among advertising writers and you will find they have got in through a dozen different doors : journalism , the entertainment business , being secretaries , or just by having a go . |
| 16 | Labour Members say that they want to have a debate , yet because they have been discomfited in other debates they have come in to the Chamber to start shouting and jeering . |
| 17 | ought to be said really , since Alan is not here and is erm is resigning , well perhaps that could come a little later on because I think both Joan and Alan er there should be some record other than this about the work they have put in for the Society er I mean the only idea I have , I do n't know how much of a a precedent this is , whether , whether anybody should be offered life membership of the the society or is that only for do you have to reach a certain age |
| 18 | Any Radio 4 fans who settle down to ‘ The Archers ’ had a bonus on August 2nd if they stayed tuned in after the programme , because it was followed by a programme called ‘ Performing Miracles ’ and featured Sheila Dicks . |