Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] in from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I glance , speculatively , towards the window , where more bad weather has blown in from the North Sea . |
| 2 | A midwinter day … the wind to the north , the sky in rags , hail whipping in from the islands in dark squalls . |
| 3 | As he entered the paved courtyard the rain came whipping in from the sea , lashing against the car and obliterating everything . |
| 4 | Well , your mother came rushing in from the car with a rare display of energy and snatched it from the fellow 's hands . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Connon 's voice came drifting in from the hall . |
| 7 | Some through passage is also noted , particularly in November , March and April , and one was seen to fly in from the sea at Selsey Bill on 1 May 1968 . |
| 8 | Birds are prominent on the tundra , especially in summer when migrant waders and waterfowl pour in from the south ; only a few species are year-round residents . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ so you really think , ’ she said , ‘ that that poor little chap is going to zoom in from the clouds and wipe us all out ? ’ |
| 11 | Weather for the Fox F M area : After some early evening sunshine , the night will start dry ; cloud and some showery rain is going to spread in from the south er to parts of the region by dawn . |
| 12 | When results began to come in from the field researchers , Highlander served as the collection , organisation and computation centre , and held workshops to allow participants to draw some very marked comparisons and contrasts from the raw data . |
| 13 | Alerted by a grapevine of unparalleled efficiency to the presence of honkies with money , hitherto undiscovered talents began swarming in from the ghettos and down from the hills , bearing tape-recordings , even guitars , for impromptu auditions . |
| 14 | It was a glorious day , warm and sunny with hardly a cloud in the sky , but by late afternoon a fresh breeze was beginning to blow in from the west . |
| 15 | Otherwise whoever it was would probably have come in from the corridor . |
| 16 | When filming a combat he pans round two adversaries so that , as each in turn assumes the aggressive role , he is observed moving in from the right . |
| 17 | Mrs Stocks would come rushing in from the wash-house in a lather of soapsuds and thrills at having found the Cap'n 's blackamoor wandering in the yard . |
| 18 | Ray had come in from the country bank and we sat with Margaret through the short service . |
| 19 | It was a relief when Stephen Copley , the Senior Chemist , arrived just before ten , bustling in as usual , his rubicund face with its tonsure and fringe of black curly hair glistening as if he had come in from the sun . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | McAllister looked at him from under the long dark eyelashes which had won his heart from the very first moment when he had seen them , on his sofa , adorning the unconscious girl he had carried in from the street . |
| 22 | Duncan lay still , confused and wondering why the Army had moved in from the south . |
| 23 | When the corporation took control , all the families living there had moved in from the city area . |
| 24 | They had moved in from the garden during a cold spell in November . |
| 25 | In these lonely hours , sitting in Brick Lane in the East End or Lamb Lane in Bradford , vivid memories come flooding in from the past , from the life before this semi-existence . |
| 26 | He thought it a great feat that she had got in from the Point in an hour and a quarter . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Then he went on to warn us that , during the cold snap earlier in the year , ice floes had swept in from the sea dragging buoys from their moorings . |
| 30 | OVER the past two years , Swedish investors have come in from the cold . |