Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] in from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The food at the hotel is mostly flown in from Vienna , so staying at Fudauri is Georgian extra-extra luxury . |
| 2 | He did not take his readers back into history so much as bring Thomas Paine , William Hazlitt , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Sir Walter Scott [ qq.v. ] , and others forward , as if they had suddenly walked in from the street . |
| 3 | I have only just flown in from Paris and I am very tired . ’ |
| 4 | The madman has just flown in from Rome on a whim , to spend a few days with me here . |
| 5 | Then , when the horse is brought out of the stable , instead of just walking quietly along ( which it would if it had just come in from the paddock ) , it is jumping out of its skin , ready to spook and shy at anything , nostrils dilated , eyes bulging , and tail hoisted high . |
| 6 | The puppy was probably encouraged to jump up when he was small and everyone thought it was quite fun , but now he is large , and has probably just come in from a swim in the pool and Aunty is standing there in her Sunday best . |
| 7 | It was quite soon after the terrible motor accident that had crippled him for life , and she had just come in from the garden with a bunch of flowers for him . |
| 8 | His stage set , along with the thumping music , flashing lights , and dry-ice clouds that go with it , had just come in from Scotland , and was due to head south as soon as we television camp-followers had done our reports in front of it . |
| 9 | She opened the door before Massingham had time to ring , her handsome shield-shaped face composed under the light brown fringe , and looking in her shirt , slacks and leather jerkin as elegantly informal as if she had just come in from a country walk . |
| 10 | ‘ This report has just come in from the Environments Officer . |
| 11 | Apart from that , though , the whole crew might have just come in from Ellis Island Caduta herself was clearly the queen bee here . |
| 12 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 13 | She and Mandy had finally got in from last night 's fiasco around four in the morning . |
| 14 | It 's staying on the dual carriageway , well I went round Steven 's to see if he thought to tow it round mine cos the already been on my back once oh no he said I 've only just walked in from work I 'm having my tea then I 'm going to bed he said , there 's no way I 'm towing no motor for the he said , just f off ! |
| 15 | ‘ O Jesus Christ , ’ he said , looking over my shoulder as if JC had just wandered in from the garden , ‘ did you die for this boy ? ’ |
| 16 | So it thus came about that the fields , meadows , pastures and arable acres of Combsburgh were finally taken in from the waste which had existed for millenia . |
| 17 | The commodore , having just tacked in from Pin Mill , says that while he recognises the accomplishment of an ancient mariner there in teaching a grey parrot to recite the complete works of Shakespeare in Urdu , and could see that this might help international relations in some way , he is far from certain this was the sort of thing Mr Major had in mind . |
| 18 | He 's just ridden in from London , and his lady 's here to meet him . |
| 19 | The competitors were in various categories for judging and were to be judged by professionals specially flown in from the States . |
| 20 | It had been specially flown in from Duxford Air Museum in Cambridgeshire and for the veterans and locals of Parham it was a picture they 'll never forget . |
| 21 | for example , in Oxfordshire the statutory Education Committee was mainly composed of old-style landed Tories , but with a mixture of keen Trades Unionist members from Cowley , and some ‘ intellectuals ’ deliberately invited in from the university . |
| 22 | At Grassington the miners worked in small setts , or meers , and there were regular disputes over boundaries and underground trespass despite the presence of a Barmoot Court and Barmaster , and other customs anciently brought in from the lead districts of Derbyshire . |
| 23 | Lexical and grammatical forms often entered in from Creole sources , although which forms , where they appeared , and how frequently , varied greatly from speaker to speaker . |
| 24 | Another frequent problem is that brood mares are often brought in from the paddock about a month before the horse is due to foal , and are put in a little paddock next to the owner 's house so that ‘ an eye can be kept on her . ’ |
| 25 | More cunning still is the practice of launching a brand of E with good stuff , so that the manufacturer gets a healthy reputation , and then distributing more dubious material , often brought in from other areas . |
| 26 | Furious staff claim they were even called in from holidays to be grilled by a specialist security firm at the MetroCentre in Gateshead , Tyne and Wear . |
| 27 | He said nothing of miraculous creation and instead proposed that the ‘ new ’ populations simply migrated in from areas not affected by the catastrophe . |
| 28 | Wolstenholme even chipped in from 25ft at the 17th for a three . |
| 29 | McLaren was then ushered in from an adjoining office . |
| 30 | Just then Alec Reid unexpectedly bustled in from the dispensary . |