Example sentences of "[verb] in through the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rear window of one of the shops looked out over poor Mary 's deposited remains and Martin had to go in through the narrow entrance to flash his lamp on it . |
| 2 | She knew it would be tantamount to suicide to try to go in through the open doorway so she made her way cautiously around the side of the building , careful to duck low enough under the shattered windows to avoid detection . |
| 3 | She slipped through the bushes alongside the sorry procession until they passed in through the lower guard of the castle , and disappeared up the tree-shrouded ramp . |
| 4 | Cornelius gazed in through the front window of Molly 's Wholefoods . |
| 5 | As I got out I caught the enigmatic Mr Goodson sneaking in through the front door , but if he 'd seen me pull up , he did n't wait to say Hello . |
| 6 | So off we went out and we played our football , and I came back , and we were sneaking in through the back door and bumped right into him . |
| 7 | It turned out to have come in through the curved zip which is unprotected by a weather flap . |
| 8 | Then , whilst resolutely throwing underconsumption out of the window he allows it to creep in through the back door again with his discursive discussion of the role of labour-power as a commodity and its place in the circulation process . |
| 9 | It was a slow , infuriating process , and as A roads gave way to B and Robyn neared her destination already two hours late , the slowly darkening skies became as black and as desperate as Robyn 's frame of mind , until the heavens opened and it started to pour — not reasonable , perfectly acceptable drops of rain from a warm July sky , but pounding , penetrating torrents that battered and bounced off the roof of the jeep and seeped in through the ill-fitting windows . |
| 10 | I remember hens , large grey ones , wandering in through the back door . |
| 11 | Looking in through the open door of one , I saw a fat , drunk skinhead in a wheelchair . |
| 12 | She slunk in through the French windows , hoping to creep upstairs unseen . |
| 13 | I could relive it every time I came in through the front door . |
| 14 | She was hanging up the jacket of her plum-coloured suit when Rebecca came in through the outer door . |
| 15 | There was a layer of grey-blue smoke in the room at about shoulder level , and a big wave in it , probably produced by me as I came in through the double doors of the back porch . |
| 16 | Back home , he dreamt , he filled the whole flat with buckets of earth , even filled soup dishes and the kettle and the wineglasses with soil , and spent hours watering them and moving them carefully around every day , carrying them from room to room so that they would be struck in turn by whatever sunshine came in through the different windows at different times of the day , making sure they were kept warm . |
| 17 | He looked up when Donna Frizzell came in through the back door , and was startled to see that her hat was awry and her makeup smudged beyond repair . |
| 18 | He came in through the back door on Lily 's afternoon out . |
| 19 | Her father came in through the back door . |
| 20 | The tiny river sounds came in through the open hatches . |
| 21 | The smell of the flowers came in through the open windows of the bus . |
| 22 | The hours passed , daylight faded , and the sounds of a warm September evening came in through the open window . |
| 23 | A little breeze came in through the open window and set the hanging light swinging , so that her face was now shadowed , now glistening pale in the electric glare . |
| 24 | She turned as two uniformed policemen came in through the main entrance . |
| 25 | Vincent barely managed to keep his temper in check in the blast of this ‘ raw north wind ’ that had come howling in through the front door . |
| 26 | Just as her words were out one of the charity women came chattering in through the open doors to the terrace . |
| 27 | Without waiting for an answer , she piled into the back — ‘ Are n't there any seat-belts for the twins ? ’ — and Carol , determined to believe I did not exist , joined her , after loading something which I did n't see in through the rear doors . |
| 28 | The wind , being drawn in through the open window , lifted the fibrous material on the top of my head so the Sun could heal the brick-shaped gash . |
| 29 | ‘ I never like going in through the front door , ’ Ace said , ‘ but I guess you 're right . ’ |
| 30 | He gave it a few pumps and collected an armful of logs for the stove before going in through the back door . |