Example sentences of "she had [vb pp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elizabeth was not altogether in favour of the last choice but as Lamb was now officially betrothed to Martha , she had given in . |
| 2 | She could not refuse him , accordingly , and did not ; but more and more it was almost as if she had given in to Mr Poole 's demands ; one man was much like another . |
| 3 | She had given in because she found him irresistible and , looking at his strong brown back in the first grey light of dawn , she still found him so . |
| 4 | During the short time their marriage had lasted , there had been so many times when she had given in to Julius 's forceful demands , just to keep the peace . |
| 5 | She had called in at the office once since she left and had been greeted with pleasure . |
| 6 | I think one thing that blindfolded us a bit was the fact that the river was in spate at the time and if she had fallen in she 'd have been washed out to sea . |
| 7 | But the taxi had showed up on the dot , and she had stepped in , resolutely refusing to look back for one last glance at the house . |
| 8 | So she had stayed in and got the dinner prepared early , she could just shove it in the oven and it would look after itself . |
| 9 | She had lost count of the seedy hotels she had stayed in . |
| 10 | She had gone in and looked at that picture and come running down the stairs crying , with her hands up to her face and the tears pouring . |
| 11 | But McLean told the jury that she had joined in and also stamped on Mrs McMullen 's stomach and throat . |
| 12 | When she thought of the baths she had wallowed in at home , the scented soaps and thick towels , the perfumes and the lotions , she wanted to cry . |
| 13 | The fire by which we sat , Mrs Browning in front , I to one side , consisted mainly of a branch of beech which she had brought in from the woods : the thick end was in the fireplace , surrounded by burning twigs cosseted into flame by Mrs Browning , who puffed upon them with a pair of leather bellows when they faltered , and the other end , in shape and size rather like the antlers of a deer , reached out into the room . |
| 14 | He was answered by another loud sob and a gesture towards the untidy parcel which she had brought in . |
| 15 | Lesley-Jane Decker had been on stage at the time of the shooting , so , unless she had brought in a hired killer , she seemed to be in the clear . |
| 16 | She had walked in as she talked , so he assumed the offer to be turned away was her form of politeness . |
| 17 | She had walked in as a cookery demonstration for Korean housewives was under way . |
| 18 | She had walked in as a cookery demonstration for Korean housewives was under way . |
| 19 | A week after she had settled in , the writer Katherine Mansfield came to call . |
| 20 | After she had signed in , Brian Everthorpe directed her to the section of the car park reserved for visitors , and waited for her at the entrance to the Administration Block . |
| 21 | She curled up in the position she had slept in as a child ; and realised with a sinking heart that it was not only the most comfortable way of being in bed , but it was also one that you could not adopt in company . |
| 22 | Alice went up to her room , and squatted down in the corner where her bed had been , the narrow white bed she had slept in since she was ten years old . |
| 23 | The one she had slept in for years before moving upstairs this summer to share with Thérèse . |
| 24 | He thought it was a joke that she had slept in and there was no sign whatsoever of guilt at his desertion of her . |
| 25 | But she had done it in a very peculiar way : she had booked in to a private Well Woman Clinic under an assumed name . |
| 26 | By a coincidence the letter had been waiting for her on her dressing-table when she had got in from the pictures the previous night , just after she had been thinking and talking of Hilda . |
| 27 | He thought it a great feat that she had got in from the Point in an hour and a quarter . |
| 28 | If only she had come in shouting ‘ What 's this ? ’ and chucked the lot at him , he would have felt something had been achieved . |
| 29 | She had come in with fresh water to bathe his back and hands , and stole extra time to finish the job , because he was conscious and willing to lie still . |
| 30 | She had come in from work one evening to find her mother and father dead in each other 's arms . |