Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] in [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | By late afternoon we 'd stopped in at a number of bars along the pier . |
| 2 | She 'd booked in to a hotel on the Place Gambetta , had a leisurely bath to iron out the kinks of the journey , then followed the receptionist 's directions to the old part of the town , a maze of narrow streets where old timbered buildings leaned amiably towards each other . |
| 3 | They 'd laid in for a siege with dozens of eggs , cans of luncheon meat , and tea . |
| 4 | Certainly Leicestershire 's team manager Jack Birkenshaw has no doubt about the credentials of the 27-year-old quickie , whose career took off when umpire Allan Jones , a former fast bowler himself , advised coming in off a straight rather than a curved run . |
| 5 | Then they 'd gone in for a look . |
| 6 | When a larger group came tramping in behind a piper , Cameron and Menzies recognized some stalwarts from Foss on Tummel . |
| 7 | It was so hot outside that she had settled for an orange cheesecloth caftan , which she 'd jacked in with a belt of linked gold hippos . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Yeah , but you see , you 've got the , you got all the other things in , down , down , underneath , well I mean if you started going in with a knife and you started cutting them I mean you could cut an artery or anything could n't you ? |
| 10 | Yeah , but you see you 've got the , you 've got all the , the other things ins , down , down it , underneath , and I mean if you started going in with a knife and you started cutting down , I mean you could sa , cut an artery or anything could n't you ? |
| 11 | There is no truth in the rumour that some of their number fancied joining in for a bit of a busman's/policeman 's holiday . |
| 12 | His widow said yesterday : ‘ Money started coming in for a Denholm Elliott Project without me appealing for it and we already have several thousand pounds from British donations as well as £5,000 from Ibiza , where we lived . |
| 13 | That helped meet police costs that rose by 16 per cent to a record level of £9.28m , although the Trust did weigh in with a £2.24m contribution . |
| 14 | She had been accepted for the job at Ardis & Co , looking the way she normally looked , but if to keep her job — and she had no idea at that stage whether there was a Vasey junior , or similar , at G Vasey Ltd — she had to go in for a bit of de glamorisation , then so be it . |
| 15 | But she had done it in a very peculiar way : she had booked in to a private Well Woman Clinic under an assumed name . |
| 16 | and erm I used to do erm , keep a check on the flying times of the planes cos every forty hours they had to come in for a different check . |
| 17 | An elderly female novelist had come in at a quarter to six and Penelope had found herself trying to explain why her latest novel had not been reviewed in the Sunday Telegraph , why it had not been advertised more widely , why copies had not been displayed on the bookstall of a friend 's local station , why it had not yet been reprinted . |
| 18 | Just before airtime , a story had come in on a drug bust : space was hastily made for this . |
| 19 | If the literary establishment had thought to compare notes they would have realized that every male aura on and off Fleet Street had come in for a bashing . |
| 20 | He had come in for a book of stamps , and when he had got it he joined Breeze , who was waiting on the Green . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're really down , are n't you ? – said Felix 's wife , who had come in with a jar of instant coffee and a jug of water no more than fairly hot , which increased Stephen 's worry that many things were falling behind . |
| 22 | When Rachel was finally writing up her reports at the end of the morning , Nina suddenly called her and asked if she could come and look at a young man who had come in with a skin rash . |
| 23 | But one of them is a copy-editor , I think that is what he is called , and he told me that he thought the item had come in from a friend of Leila 's . ’ |
| 24 | Apparently I had windmilled in at a quarter to ten , with three bottles of champagne , all of which I dropped in one catastrophic juggle . |
| 25 | But by nineteen ninety one , that had turned in to a deficit of a hundred million and one prediction suggests the deficit would have widened dramatically to six hundred and forty million pounds by the end of the decade . |
| 26 | A Shetland crofting family , for instance , had moved in with a childless older woman , who became ‘ one of the family … |
| 27 | She curled up in the position she had slept in as a child ; and realised with a sinking heart that it was not only the most comfortable way of being in bed , but it was also one that you could not adopt in company . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Two robbers both with guns had got in through a kitchen window and were threatening to kill him . |
| 30 | Two robbers , both with guns , had got in through a kitchen window and were threatening to kill him . |