Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] in through the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A baffled ox has horned in through the wall . |
| 2 | Scraps of paper , issuing from the city , came twirling in through the cab window . |
| 3 | The glass exploded outwards and rain suddenly came pouring in through the hole . |
| 4 | Ronnie must have come in through the yard door without her knowing … |
| 5 | I found a small but perfectly-formed hailstone on my knee , which must have got in through the air vent . |
| 6 | They were waiting for the lift when they saw a man come hurrying in through the swing doors . |
| 7 | Mostly she quizzed me about the burglars and I said they 'd tried to get in through the bathroom window and one of them had put a foot through it , probably coming from the roof next door , and I generally made out that there was a whole gang of footpads up there lying in wait for Santa Claus . |
| 8 | Around eight o'clock the sound of distant brass bands can again be heard wafting in through the bedroom windows . |
| 9 | Lee remembered when a sparrow had flown in through the window of her bedroom when she was a child . |
| 10 | As Major Pond discovered , seat-holders were let in through side doors while hoi polloi had to come in through the front in the hope of getting what they could . |
| 11 | We 've moved in through the looking-glass and now we 're too big , too enormous for egress . |
| 12 | A taxi had dropped him and his luggage at the main railway station , he had walked in through the entrance with a porter in attendance ; and that was that . |
| 13 | And yet , cruising the crowd for those overheards that can often give clues to the deeper meaning of an occasion , it became clear that one or two paying punters , a few common or garden turnstile cowboys , had slipped in through the security net . |
| 14 | The birds , when they come shooting in through the darkness , seldom land exactly beside their nest hole . |
| 15 | Erm , but we are n't going to the sort of , end of degree , that er , I say this , and then you sort of enter stage left and say this , and I respond like this , and then erm , something else happens , and then somebody comes crashing in through the door . |
| 16 | What 's happened is , of course , that as the costs have fallen and the micros have come in through the door so they 're very much smaller , erm it all becomes possible for the whole of society and not for a tiny elite . |
| 17 | Reading , yeah you look round at people and then somebody comes rushing in through the door and you 've never seen then before , what do you do ? |