Example sentences of "she had [vb pp] in " in BNC.
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| 31 | Benny sprinted for the doors she had come in by , but already more guards were arriving from their stations , and the first few shots buzzed past her . |
| 32 | She dressed in what she had come in — black Bermuda shorts and a thin black cotton vest-top . |
| 33 | Reproaching herself for not having unlocked it when she had come in from the main door , she rose quickly and went to open up . |
| 34 | So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College . |
| 35 | Out of duty she had caved in , but it still went against the grain . |
| 36 | J.D. had told her on her last visit , when she had handed in the column she had just read , that there had been a large number of letters about Vesta 's contribution and he would be publishing some of them in the next issue . |
| 37 | And that was n't all she had taken in . |
| 38 | But as they continued down the hill to Dingle and along the road that curved round the harbour to Ballingolin , she was even more bewildered to hear him reciting family history to her — history she had taken in with her mother 's milk and knew by heart . |
| 39 | When she had looked in to clean up the following day the meal was still on the table , untouched . |
| 40 | The rest of the family was in the sitting-room and the last time she had looked in they were eating chocolates and sorting through a pile of videos . |
| 41 | Rain took the seat she had sat in before , in the deepest shadow the room afforded . |
| 42 | Her father , finding in her many of the qualities he had admired in her mother , had given her far greater freedom from the harem than was normal and from childhood she had sat in on the political and intellectual discussions her father had with his cronies . |
| 43 | One of her first arrivals at Heathrow gave the British tabloids a field day as she climbed off a long-haul flight from Australia in the same travel-weary outfit she had boarded in . |