Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] in [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The door was open and I did hear that much when I passed to go in to the ladies ' toilet . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Five hundred lines to anyone caught sneaking in before the bell ! ’ |
| 4 | Broussac , on our way home , stopped to jeer in at the lighted windows of Master Ferrebourg 's office . |
| 5 | The boy tried to move in with the grandparents . |
| 6 | But William 's grandad was too busy working to notice or care , riding shotgun to a great clattering brute of a knitting machine that reminded him of the Irish cobs he 'd broken in for the brewery ; he could knit thirty fully fashioned stockings an hour , sixteen hours a day . |
| 7 | Scraps of paper , issuing from the city , came twirling in through the cab window . |
| 8 | As he entered the paved courtyard the rain came whipping in from the sea , lashing against the car and obliterating everything . |
| 9 | And as Cram prepared to jump in at the deep end with a clash against Olympic 10,000m champion Khalid Skah in the BUPA International Festival of Running , race organiser Brendan Foster tipped his pal to rekindle memories of his glory days in his new event . |
| 10 | Sonia said : ‘ It seemed to fit in with the spirit of the Festival — how political change in history is articulated — and celebrated the most remarkable use of language , worldwide . |
| 11 | It just seemed to fit in with the story and the early part of your visit about somebody getting killed . ’ |
| 12 | He 'd got in with the punks and seen immediately what they were doing , what a renaissance this was in music . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd got in amongst the sharks , filming them in a feeding frenzy . ’ |
| 14 | Just as her words were out one of the charity women came chattering in through the open doors to the terrace . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Well , your mother came rushing in from the car with a rare display of energy and snatched it from the fellow 's hands . |
| 17 | The glass exploded outwards and rain suddenly came pouring in through the hole . |
| 18 | Mind , he 'd crashed in on the situation pretty damn quickly , stepping in and being nice to her almost before she had dried her eyes , trying to get her on the rebound . |
| 19 | In quick succession , Sandy Lyle , Faldo twice and then , last year , Ian Woosnam came riding in on the crest of a British tidal wave . |
| 20 | In the second half , Joey Beauchamp came flying in like the daring young man on the trapeze . |
| 21 | Instead of liking the look of the water , wading in carefully and finding it was wonderful , she 'd tumbled in at the deep end . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Connon 's voice came drifting in from the hall . |
| 24 | She was cracking those damn peppermints in her back teeth to disguise the fact she 'd called in at the Oyster Bar on her way up . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ We 're in luck , ’ said Jonna , as Ned came panting in at the doorway with an armful of heavily-foliaged twigs . |
| 26 | Phil came running in to the street saying : ‘ He shot my granddad ’ . |
| 27 | He came running in from the dispensary , pulling up his trousers , still held up by his MCC tie , the end of his stethoscope bouncing off his fat tummy . |
| 28 | A bee came buzzing in under the roof . |
| 29 | no did n't like how he grouted it because she said there , things like a little nick in the tile , if he 'd gone in with the grouting it would n't of shown any and he did n't |
| 30 | Next moment the swirling fog in the alley was suddenly lit to a brilliant white by the head lamps of the car which came roaring in at the far end . |