Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] in [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A baffled ox has horned in through the wall . |
| 2 | This beggar had come in to the fitting shop , corner at the back corner , where he should n't have been . |
| 3 | The Land Rover 's motor was already running when he arrived in the street , and when Hennessy had clambered in on the passenger side Windeler moved off without even waiting to see if the door was secure . |
| 4 | As the freak end of the underground had dropped in on the LSE , so the politicos , or would-be politicos , packed their bags for Alexandra Palace . |
| 5 | Lee remembered when a sparrow had flown in through the window of her bedroom when she was a child . |
| 6 | According to CUP , the trade in the UK and Ireland has been ‘ magnificently supportive ’ , with almost 200 window displays of the Oxford Cambridge Book Race design , and entries have flooded in for the competition to win a holiday in Pompeii . |
| 7 | Resident outside the airfield 's motel for nearly 30 years , it was beginning to look very much the worse for wear and , as other Ouragons have given in to the ravages of time , attract the nearest of museums . |
| 8 | Panic has set in as the league 's Draconian restructuring unfolds with four clubs relegated from Division One and seven from Division Two . |
| 9 | This is where the Arts Council has stepped in with the argument that if the scheme promotes a form of art which does not conform to their qualitative criteria , it should be abolished . |
| 10 | His dad had n't much luck dying in his fifties and the boy had looked in with the bread and milk most days since her accident . |
| 11 | Ray had come in from the country bank and we sat with Margaret through the short service . |
| 12 | What 's happened is , of course , that as the costs have fallen and the micros have come in through the door so they 're very much smaller , erm it all becomes possible for the whole of society and not for a tiny elite . |
| 13 | Tonight , though , they rarely come across as well , because instrumental fluff and dead wood have crept in between the sharp spikes . |
| 14 | A spokesman at the hotel said he and the other members of the team had checked in at the weekend and appeared to be none the worse for their ordeal . |
| 15 | There the plaintiff had booked in at the reception desk of a hotel and only subsequently , on entering her room , did she discover behind the door a notice which claimed to exclude the hotel 's liability for guests ’ property . |
| 16 | The first proof that the rot had set in at the Midland was the full disclosure of its profits and reserves in 1969 . |
| 17 | Said his friend-cum-mentor , Irving Layton , in looking back over the period , ‘ I had a very sharp feeling in the early fifties that poetry in Canada had come in from the cold and was starting to gain momentum . ’ |
| 18 | Andre had fallen in with the legendary Lafons of Meursault — Dominique Lafon was at college at the same time , and Lafon pere had become something of a mentor . |
| 19 | The rear window of one of the shops looked out over poor Mary 's deposited remains and Martin had to go in through the narrow entrance to flash his lamp on it . |
| 20 | Rain had set in after the heatwave and there was an infestation of jelly fishes in the Moray Firth . |
| 21 | Gran has joined in on the act . |
| 22 | I 'd come in in the middle of something . |
| 23 | At the capitalization party a number of well-wishers had wandered in from the various Labour movement campaigns and organizations which shared the Caxton House office block with NoS . |
| 24 | Putrefaction had set in around the nose and mouth , the skin felt cold and soggy as Corbett gently turned the head to look at the fatal weal round the neck , a broad , purple black gash with little round indentations which made it look like some ghostly parody of a necklace . |
| 25 | If Lili had come in by the back door it had been very late indeed . |
| 26 | OVER the past two years , Swedish investors have come in from the cold . |
| 27 | The bridge has fallen in with the Mayor and Corporation on it . |
| 28 | You can count on the fingers of one hand the times Mr Kinnock has jumped in among the public . |
| 29 | The train had come in from the sidings and stood in the station , warm and pulsing , its engines reattached , the horses and grooms on board and fresh foods and ice loaded . |
| 30 | Much later it struck me as odd that I experienced no superstitious fear or repugnance in the presence of a dead body , although I am so squeamish that more than once I have had to ask a neighbour to deal with a dead rabbit that one of the cats had brought in during the night . |