Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] in [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bailiffs moved in and boarded up the house in Ely , Cardiff , as Pat and her children , Maria , 16 , and three-year-old Matthew watched . |
| 2 | Almost immediately barn owls moved in and bred successfully . |
| 3 | The funds used in and accruing from these transactions were debited and credited to accounts of the taxpayer bank with overseas banks and it was the profits from these transactions which the commissioner sought to tax . |
| 4 | The guards came in and took Rilla out . |
| 5 | Two or three other cars came in and parked ; a couple left . |
| 6 | If Samoa , Mount Silisili and yesterday were indeed somewhere out there , I would have to take their presence on trust : I doubt if the visibility was more than five miles , and less as the squalls rolled in and drenched me in my eyrie . |
| 7 | Sheep automatically seem to connect people with food , so that they become bothersome and , in some cases I saw , dangerous as they tried butting until harassed walkers gave in and handed over some of their food . |
| 8 | Regulars at the Foresters Arm , Coatham Mundeville , looked on in astonishment last year when bailiffs came in and stripped the pub of furniture and fittings . |
| 9 | Nails came in and stood by him , not saying anything . |
| 10 | Peter Acton visits the popular gardening guru and live-wire broadcaster , Harry Smith , to discover how he keeps Radio Kent gardening enthusiasts tuned in and turned on |
| 11 | Quadrant Park is a great , glitzy three- storeyed chasm of a club in Bootle , which on Saturday nights becomes a suffocating fleshpit of 2,500 north-western ravers tuned in and turned on to the house sound of Merseyside . |
| 12 | Nails dived in and came up looking shaken . |
| 13 | He and other rescuers jumped in and dug with shovels , buckets and their bare hands . |
| 14 | Presently a man with greying hair and specs came in and said he was the doctor who was going to remove the polyps . |
| 15 | British and Empire troops dug in and organized their defences so rapidly that all German counter-attacks the following day were thrown back and even more ground gained . |
| 16 | Stray dogs and chickens wandered in and had to be shooed out , and in the winter evenings when her mother told stories about saints and piskies and dragon-fillers by the light of the fire , the neighbouring children would crowd in at the door to listen , so that after a while her mother became known as the best storyteller in Polruan . |
| 17 | M.E. Railton , Harcourt Street , Hopetown , Darlington : I was working at the Broadway Cafe in Darlington when one of the customers came in and said the King had died . |
| 18 | Two men in white coats ran in and took Susan by the arms . |
| 19 | Further their Lordships have no doubt that when Lord Bridge , after quoting the guiding principle , gave certain examples he was not intending thereby to lay down an exhaustive list of tests to be applied in all cases in determining whether or not profits arose in or derived from Hong Kong . |
| 20 | Since the annual report printing business was surplus to requirements at Colorgraphic , Bowstead and his partners moved in and took over in 1990 with backing from County NatWest and Murray Johnstone . |
| 21 | Even the three debutants came in and played like never before . |
| 22 | Parents , friends and relations joined in and wrote , or counted onto a tape recorder , the numbers one to ten . |
| 23 | Table 1 provides information on how many of the referrals started in or out-of-hours each month . |
| 24 | Answer guide : Ideas should include : interest on capitals to reflect uneven capitals , compensation to Susan for goodwill built up , possibly a lower basic salary for the new partner with bonus payments based on new business or profits brought in or developed . |
| 25 | Systemic steroids were given to 14 ( 41% ) of the 34 patients managed in and discharged from accident and emergency departments and 116 ( 52% ) of the 225 patients admitted to hospital ( table II ) . |
| 26 | The protesters gave in when told the silence was to honour all the dead . |
| 27 | Some crafty young entrepreneurs steamed in and relieved her of several pairs of Pumas at a knockdown price . |
| 28 | By the mid-1950's the catch was diminishing , then the big Russian and Dutch factory ships moved in and began virtually vacuuming up the fish , taking the young as well as the adults . |
| 29 | However , just before the point of order was raised , a group of Labour Members came in and raised , on spurious points of order , allegations against the Secretary of State for Health arising from matters that did not appear in the report . |
| 30 | Squatters broke in and caused damage . |