Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] in [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This winsome description fits in with the descriptions of the messianic age in the book of Isaiah , with the wolf lying down with the lamb , the lion and the ox eating straw together , and the little child playing happily and fearlessly with them and even putting its little hand unhurt into the hole of the poisonous viper . |
| 2 | In 1952 it adopted the practice of permitting deputies to stand in for the ministers : the deputies soon became permanent features , attending to all business except that deemed to be symbolically important . |
| 3 | That the services they provide are relevant to environmental groups , and in that way to help environmental groups plug in to the kinds of advice on fund raising and er , management and all sorts of other aspects of running a voluntary organisation , which , at the moment , of , er a lot of , er social service organisations plug into , but so many environmental groups . |
| 4 | I 'm grateful to you for your readiness to fall in with the proposals made , and er , I have enjoyed the opportunity to chair this A G M. The meeting is now concluded . |
| 5 | ‘ But I think it is a pointless exercise , ’ said Floy , somewhere towards morning , a thin , cold light filtering in through the windows to where he sat at a great desk , his black hair tumbled , hollows in his cheeks , his face white with fatigue . |
| 6 | The light had almost gone from the day now and the forest was becoming bathed in soft , subtle hues of the Purple Hour , Dark blue and turquoise light slanted in through the trees , turning the Wolfwood to a place of dark secret shadows and heavy ancient magic . |
| 7 | Three of his goals bounced in off the posts . |
| 8 | Again , the light level was subterranean , but there were no curtains so a fair amount of yellow light came in from the streetlamps outside . |
| 9 | Grey , uncertain light leaked in through the curtains . |
| 10 | old said I do n't want any of the lads going in with the girls |
| 11 | When Rosalind and Philip first moved in , it was in a pretty parlous condition , with , amongst other nightmares , an elder tree with its roots in the great hall and its branches spreading in through the windows . |
| 12 | The entire loft is a matted tangle of sticks and twigs brought in by the jackdaws over God knows how many centuries ; in parts it is many metres deep . |
| 13 | I inspected the room in the faint light coming in around the shutters . |
| 14 | When proper gentlemen start in with the fists there 's usually a woman at the bottom of it . |
| 15 | Mum came in from the shops and gave us the news that , starting from September , we are to have 2 morning services . |
| 16 | You got a very good committee , dedicated committee erm who , you see the young trainees were sent to the technical colleges and you see , erm some of them did go on if they graduated to Stanford Hall , but I mean those that went to technical college , we used to have to get the committee to sit in at the examinations . |
| 17 | Military chaplains moved in with the troops , and news of the Christian community came to us through them . |
| 18 | Pooley came in with the drinks . |
| 19 | It was still warm during the day , and the sun came in over the trees of the forest outside the camp . |
| 20 | When the time came , would Moma Parsheen tune in to the deaths of fellow Astropaths on Stalinvast ? |
| 21 | Superimposed on this map of things as they were , one sometimes finds the lines drawn in by the commissioners showing where they propose to create the new fields and hedges , and the new roads , public and private . |
| 22 | But more complex emotions creep in at the fringes of the tale , where the grandfather 's ostracism of the man his daughter loves leads to several fraught emotional scenes . |
| 23 | Theda came to herself to find that she lay in a large four-poster bed , with the curtains drawn back , and the weak autumn sun coming in at the windows . |
| 24 | Benny streamed in with the others . |
| 25 | We huddled in its dark ruinous rooms sipping bitter tea while gusts of sand blew in at the doorways . |
| 26 | Some of the working- and lower-middle-class people who made up the bulk of the urban populace had relatives in the villages , but transport to and from the countryside was erratic and there was always the danger that food-parcels sent in from the villages would be intercepted and confiscated . |
| 27 | Then , set against the incredibly complicated French and Indian Wars , the actual story has Hawkeye falling in with the Brits as he falls for the daughter ( Stowe ) of a Scots officer . |
| 28 | And when I say rock , this is the dynamic blues-Clash-U2-alternative type , not the stuff stadium/metal bands make in between the pubs opening . |
| 29 | As the smoke cleared and the dust settled , two fighter planes came in over the fields and circled the remains of the barn . |
| 30 | John Dugdale tunes in to the arguments |