Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] in [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or was it the east wind blowing in through the open bell tower with renewed force ? |
| 2 | The damp wind blowing in at the open door made him shiver and he went to wake the others . |
| 3 | Just the club cashing in with the sad sheep crawling out of the woodwork everywhere . |
| 4 | Russell turned to Dexter with a look of surprise and irritation , as if he were a complete stranger butting in on a private conversation — which indeed was just how the sergeant felt . |
| 5 | Do the postures continuously , in graceful slow motion with each exercise leading in to the next . |
| 6 | Suddenly they were in a huge , enchanting sitting-room , with the sun pouring in through the open French windows that gave a magnificent view out over the bay . |
| 7 | Even now as he stood there by the kitchen table he could see Caspar closing in on the weaker lamb , and he could hear that weird and terrible wailing of Lee 's . |
| 8 | Here , in bad weather , there are reputed to be spectacular collisions between the seawater coming in on the westerly winds and the fresh water trying to get out . |
| 9 | Painfully , looking up at him , she saw a good strong profile , sandy hair tipped with gold from the sun coming in through the lace-curtained window . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Altogether appropriately and ingloriously , the frame ended with the Barometer 's in-off the black , the ball lasering in on the middle pocket at a preposterous angle . |
| 12 | The danger of cracking heads with Bairstow flying in from the other side is as good a reason as any for its omission . |
| 13 | SERB forces were last night closing in on the last Muslim-held stronghold in eastern Bosnia , battling at close range with defenders of Gorazde . |
| 14 | She had been waiting on Dreadnought to watch the water coming in through the main leak . |
| 15 | There was a long silence and they lay absolutely still and grew cold together in the draught coming in under the closed door . |
| 16 | Shielding the flame carefully from the draught sweeping in through the open door , Isabel glanced about the single room . |
| 17 | In Roman art or in an 18th century Temple of Worthies ( such as the one at Stowe ) the rules of rhetoric might be invoked to argue that the bust functions as synecdoche , the head standing in for the whole physical and active domain of the body . |
| 18 | er he wants money coming in to the central fund er if has in two years time to face a , a trial , these allegations so be it , but meanwhile he wants the money to come in to the central fund for the reason he 's outlined |
| 19 | OS/2 will get 8.5% of the total workstation market by 1996 , it says , with Unix coming in at a hefty 47% and Windows NT possibly capturing 30–40% of the office desktop/workstation market . |
| 20 | I thought we were going to have a visitor coming in through the back door . |
| 21 | Condensation might entail the one kind of subject and/or manifestation standing in for the whole domain of evil , incurring responsibility for the whole in the process of being made to signify it . |
| 22 | It 's only ten years since the Comedy Store opened , but already there is a note of wistfulness creeping in for the good old days . |
| 23 | In the large Ethiopian and Eritrean refugee camp at Towawa , near Gadaref in eastern Sudan , where 20 000 refugees have lived for over two years , parents stop their children using latrines because of the risk of the ground caving in during the rainy season . |
| 24 | The reader in men and masculinity from Bradford University conjured up images for me of a muscular man walking in with a few four-packs of larger under his arms ready to address BASW delegates . |
| 25 | er and therefore for that very reason do not like to see the Government going in for a whole series of embarrassing defeats er and erm getting into very grave difficulties with an important Bill and I therefore arise only to ask my Noble Friend er at the last minute would like to consider very seriously erm a conciliatory reply of whether accepting er the amendments with er or er or some of them er with er er er view to their reconsideration or asking those who propose them to defer them from to from today 's sitting , there 's still further sittings ahead , but whether he was prepared to ask them to give him a chance to reflect without incurring serious Government defeats to reflect further on whether further amendments can not and should not be made . |
| 26 | The co-existence of IP 3 Rs and RYRs may somehow help to integrate information coming in from the outside and to relay it throughout the neuron through the process of CICR already described . |
| 27 | This could offset feed lost to opportunistic wildlife cashing in on an easy meal ! |
| 28 | It is easy to become disheartened if the dace fail to respond after an hour or so , but stick at it , keeping the feed going in on the same line . |