Example sentences of "[verb] in through the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She slunk in through the French windows , hoping to creep upstairs unseen . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The tiny river sounds came in through the open hatches . |
| 6 | The smell of the flowers came in through the open windows of the bus . |
| 7 | Just as her words were out one of the charity women came chattering in through the open doors to the terrace . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The rooms seemed bare , she thought , peering in through the dusty panes . |
| 10 | On the other hand , two crews decided to run beyond the jetty and get in through the low reeds beyond a willow tree at then end of the jetty . |
| 11 | In addition to the students coming in through the normal channels , two non-uniform routes have emerged during the eighties . |
| 12 | The County Council has been very active in trying to find a way forward which retains the objective of relieving the A ten eighty eight of lorries , but reduces the rat run in through the small villages using what are no more than country lanes . |
| 13 | The first time she rang the bell and went in through the front doors of the elegant old house where the showrooms were situated ( Mattli had no rear entrance ) Paula felt she was stepping into the place of her dreams . |
| 14 | He waited another second , then shrugged his shoulders and went in through the double doors . |
| 15 | A heavy south easterly swell rolling in through the wide sounds to the north of Bressay threw Venturous on her beam ends several times , so much so that fuel oil spilled over through the deck breather pipes . |
| 16 | Bleak dawn light filtered in through the grimy windows . |
| 17 | The long oak refectory table gleamed with polish , and the comfortable sofas and deep armchairs were covered in pale , ice-cream colours of blue , pink and green , in cool contrast to the brilliant rays of the midday sun , now streaming in through the large windows . |