Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] in from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fire by which we sat , Mrs Browning in front , I to one side , consisted mainly of a branch of beech which she had brought in from the woods : the thick end was in the fireplace , surrounded by burning twigs cosseted into flame by Mrs Browning , who puffed upon them with a pair of leather bellows when they faltered , and the other end , in shape and size rather like the antlers of a deer , reached out into the room . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He thought it a great feat that she had got in from the Point in an hour and a quarter . |
| 4 | She had come in from work one evening to find her mother and father dead in each other 's arms . |
| 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 | They were soon joined by Duncan Curr , member of Dublin Street Baptist Church and Chairman of Christian Aid/CEEC , who had bicycled in from Juniper Green – and eventually , ny me . |
| 7 | Bernadette 's tearful sister Rosie , who had flown in from Germany , said : ‘ All the relatives are giving Farrah lots of hugs and kisses . |
| 8 | Of the new ‘ Nepmen ’ , two were Jews who had come in from some other guberniia , and the other three all had military experience but little capital in goods or cash . |
| 9 | The senior man , who had come in from Los Angeles to E.B.I.H.Q. after Erlich had left Washington , he 'd be everybody 's friend , he 'd have them eating out of his hand down at Counter-Terrorism , he 'd probably take out citizenship . |
| 10 | Recalled the team of copy humans who had come in from Mars to kill him . |
| 11 | The waiting-room was moderately full and there were several clients who had come in from neighbouring villages . |
| 12 | Every time we had to travel in from our suburb to the city for clinic visits , we made it a treat day . |
| 13 | They had moved in from the garden during a cold spell in November . |
| 14 | Instead , he drove away in the , ran over a kerb , got a flat tyre and kept going — to pick up Vicky Vanderford , whom he had flown in from California . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Mr Birt said yesterday he had been ‘ enormously heartened ’ by the strong support he had received in from colleagues at the BBC . |
| 17 | He had come in from his dressing room and Eileen was waiting , dressed and ready for the dinner party . |
| 18 | It was what should have happened to him when he had come in from Athens , and had n't . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |