Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Again , the light level was subterranean , but there were no curtains so a fair amount of yellow light came in from the streetlamps outside . |
| 6 | Grey , uncertain light leaked in through the curtains . |
| 7 | I inspected the room in the faint light coming in around the shutters . |
| 8 | Mum came in from the shops and gave us the news that , starting from September , we are to have 2 morning services . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was still warm during the day , and the sun came in over the trees of the forest outside the camp . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We huddled in its dark ruinous rooms sipping bitter tea while gusts of sand blew in at the doorways . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ And , while I appreciate your charitable intent in trying to comfort me for Lotta 's absence from my bed , I tell you once more that the time when I might have needed consolation for Lotta 's tricks has long since passed , and the fact that I 've chosen to live the life of a monk for the past six months is because until the past few days I have felt no desire to give in to the temptations paraded before me . ’ |
| 15 | The arms positioned alongside the body turn in at the elbows with the hands over the groin . |
| 16 | The plantation itself is close to a feeder stream that runs straight into the Cothi , as would acid taken in by the conifers . |
| 17 | A former bus driver is staging an all night sit in outside the offices of a training organisation he claims forced him out of a job . |
| 18 | It sounds posey perhaps , but Althusser says something along the lines of when there are breaks that 's when you have a chance to change things , a chance to nip in through the cracks and grab the moment . |
| 19 | The original model was made in wax ; it was then encased in a clay mould and molten metal poured in through the feet ; the hot metal melted the wax and displaced it , filling the mould . |
| 20 | Every fifteen days , when the spring tides are at their peak , vast numbers of grunion ride in on the crests of waves and deliberately strand themselves on the shore . |
| 21 | Joints open up , and crumbling putty allows water to seep in around the panes , eventually rotting the glazing bars and frame members . |
| 22 | Metazoans are virtually absent except in some of the lakes where fresh water seeps in at the edges . |
| 23 | She stood on the deck while the water rushed in through the sides of the great oaken gates , lifting the barge higher and higher until they were level with the water in the next basin . |
| 24 | The lightly-padded bellows tongue and Cambrelle lining stopped any water seeping in under the laces . |
| 25 | Did you yourself take part in the operation to go in with the guns ? |
| 26 | As soon as he had apprehended any kidnappers , the state prosecutor moved in on the hostages and he never saw them again . |
| 27 | Within fifty minutes a Metropolitan Police helicopter swung in across the fields , guided by the radio of the squad car , to deposit on the road behind the cars a small , bird-like man called Dr Barnard , the Chief Explosives Officer of the Met , a man who , thanks to the bomb outrages of the IRA in mainland Britain , had examined more explosion scenes than he would have wished . |
| 28 | The patio door stood open and a flurry of vanilla-scented air blew in from the laburnums . |
| 29 | This battle became known later as the Battle of the Jaws , an apt name considering the manner in which the Orc attack closed in on the Dwarfs , like the jaws of the Mad Dog itself . |
| 30 | As the froth turns in from the sides and the coffee begins to rise in the pot , it is removed from the heat and a little is poured into each cup to distribute the froth . |