Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] in [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was cold , too , an icy wind sneaking in through the thatch and through gaps in the mud wall . |
| 2 | Many gardeners believe that an informal pool should be planted liberally , with waterlilies obscuring areas of the water surface , and reeds and rushes tumbling in from the garden . |
| 3 | This is the life down on the Copacobana beach in Rio … sun shining … waves crashing in on the sand … and its here that Liz Macdonald from Gloucester is setting off on the second leg of the British Steel Challenge … she 's on board the Nuclear Electric yacht … from Rio they round Cape Horn and head for Hobart … they 'll be racing for six weeks … |
| 4 | However , Pound 's diagnosis of Williams 's condition was surely perceptive : Williams could abide American reality ( where Pound and Eliot had to flee from it ) because , as in the admirable ‘ To Elsie ’ ( ’ The pure products of America / go crazy' ) , he remained the immigrant , the outsider looking in on the behaviour of the nation that he had been , by the sheerest accident , born to . |
| 5 | Then our eyes will be firmly caught and firmly held by a bent female figure hurrying in through the door and across the room towards us . |
| 6 | Initially , he had much sympathy from the British trade union movement , funds pouring in from the mainland , including almost £pound94,000 collected by the Trades Union Congress . |
| 7 | Should be a few goals going in at the Baseball Ground on Sunday … the central live match is Derby County against Oxford United … |
| 8 | This index was started by Herbarium staff , who scanned new journals and books coming in to the Library . |
| 9 | Led by Major Ronnie Tod , 30 men went ashore and had hardly been gone a few minutes when Dudley Clarke and the commander saw the dark outline of a boat coming in from the sea . |
| 10 | Since the 1920's Berlin has been a city encountered through images : Doblin , Pabst and Isherwood ; the diabolic glamour of Nazism ; Year Zero ; the Airlift ; John Kennedy and spies coming in from the cold ; the generation of " 68 , the stylized desperation of the punk underground , and angels made corporeal . |
| 11 | A very simple picture , again , it 's er you could n't have anything much more simple than this , just two waves coming in onto the shingle beach and er you can almost hear the the the waves rushing u running across the shingle . |
| 12 | A stranger coming in to the house that you 've never seen before |
| 13 | What happened in Liverpool when Liverpool were playing ho oh , Nottingham Forest , and what happened was is that there was extra fans coming in to the ground and the police let them in and then everyone just started to get squashed and all that . |
| 14 | Fortinbras coming in at the end , when Hamlet 's dead and everyone 's dead . |
| 15 | I was reading some gimcrack book about economics , full of those pictograms that fall half-way between diagrams and drawings , when I heard the thudding of a diesel engine running under the roar of the gale coming in off the sea and over the whirr of the fan heater that was marinading my feet . |
| 16 | That 's a lot of light coming in on the back I think . |
| 17 | Her face was a white blur under the dark cloak and hood she wore as protection against the fierce wind coming in off the sea . |
| 18 | But , unfortunately , there are also restaurants cashing in on the brasserie bandwagon by serving cheap , cheerful and desperately trendy bistro food in designer surroundings — and charging the earth for it . |
| 19 | But the wind sweeping in from the sea even got to him , with the Open Champion dropping four shots in three holes , including a double bogey five at the treacherous 15th . |
| 20 | A policeman caught a well-known burglar breaking in to the back of a shop late one night . |
| 21 | There are two periods of Romanesque in Spain : the basic Spanish product , of buildings erected before the great southward expansion in the late eleventh century and a transitional style of Late Romanesque of twelfth and thirteenth century work , resulting both from this expansion and from the French influence coming in from the north-east . |
| 22 | And it 'll be a cool afternoon , temperatures around nine degrees celsius , that 's forty eight fahrenheit , with light winds coming in from the east . |
| 23 | He watched Maggie bump the tall girl with her hip , then add , ‘ There 's a gang of parched Arabs coming in from the desert ; see to them . ’ |
| 24 | FIGURE 5 I add small slivers of light down the windows to show the sun coming in from the right ( when it 's out ! ) . |
| 25 | In the summer , with the sun slanting in through the window , with the deep tan wallpaper , and the overall colour scheme of tan and creams , it looked lovely , but in the depths of winter it looked vaguely soiled , and depressingly dull . |
| 26 | Those wonderful mornings in summer when the larks rose high over the mountains and you woke to the sound of cowbells and the sun streaming in through the window ? |
| 27 | If you go on holiday for a month , you want another pay cheque going in at the end of the month . |
| 28 | It was almost time for Compline when Cadfael came from the gardens after his last round of the evening , and saw horsemen riding in at the gate . |
| 29 | Well I can remember when I went Was in the water at the start , there was You could see a lot of boats coming in alongside the platform . |
| 30 | With a fair breeze blowing in from the sea , we kept the majestic peninsula in sight as we headed along the coast path . |