Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] in [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this bright evening , they were looped back by twisted and tasselled cords ; light came streaming in through the sashed plate-glass windows . |
| 2 | But disappointment began to set in by the time the ballot boxes had been emptied , and when the second stage of the count began , at 12.45 a.m. , it soon became clear that it would be a two-horse race . |
| 3 | This beggar had come in to the fitting shop , corner at the back corner , where he should n't have been . |
| 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 | He was about to leave the foundry and continue his journey when an apprentice came rushing in with the loveliest girl he had seen in a long while , and his heart seemed to stop . |
| 7 | The boy tried to move in with the grandparents . |
| 8 | Inside our flat , small drifts of this sand began to blow in under the doors and through the cracks in the window frames . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As he entered the paved courtyard the rain came whipping in from the sea , lashing against the car and obliterating everything . |
| 11 | A short blast on the ship 's siren to warn the dockyard staff ashore was followed by the thrashing of its propeller , as the transport began to manoeuvre in to the jetty . |
| 12 | The howling wind blew the broken bonnet away and rain began to flood in under the dashboard . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The first proof that the rot had set in at the Midland was the full disclosure of its profits and reserves in 1969 . |
| 16 | Rain had set in after the heatwave and there was an infestation of jelly fishes in the Moray Firth . |
| 17 | I could feel my heart going boom-ba-di-boom — imagined my heart when it was dead , all its auricles and ventricles shrinking and wrinkling like burst balloons after my head got bashed in on the rocks . |
| 18 | As they staggered out of their tepees and another faultless day came smooching in from the Pacific , they would sniff the honeyed air and ask one another what they 'd got up to the previous night . |
| 19 | A mist began to roll in off the sea ; and suddenly , before Ruth really noticed what was happening , everything beyond ten yards was blotted out . |
| 20 | The crew decided to go in by the entrance to Fingal 's cave . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Connon 's voice came drifting in from the hall . |
| 24 | Twenty-five years after the war ended a man had gone in to the shop and been told that his treasure was studded with spinels instead of rubies . |
| 25 | Duncan lay still , confused and wondering why the Army had moved in from the south . |
| 26 | A bee came buzzing in under the roof . |
| 27 | Miraculously , we surfaced the other side of the wave only to find that we were rapidly sinking ; my spray deck had caved in with the force of the water . |
| 28 | The returning submarine had nosed in to the depot ship 's side , and willing hands on the well-deck rails pulled on her stem lines , easing her closer , making her fast . |
| 29 | At Charing Cross the boatman began to pull in as the deep bend in the river became more pronounced . |
| 30 | Opening the meeting of the Economic Planning Council , the Chairman , Lord Hampshire , surprised members by announcing that the Prime Minister intended to sit in on the transport debate , which was the subject of a White Paper about to be discussed on the floor of the House . |