Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] in [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I have an army of women coming in from the village to do all that . |
| 32 | Stella has also raised the question of spouses joining in on the dinner circuit . |
| 33 | When it came to practice , the weather was appalling , with low clouds streaming in from the sea and rain falling constantly . |
| 34 | A respectable attempt at comic characterization , its undiminished contrivance ultimately mars the simplicity of It Only Takes a Moment , already performed as a send-up of movie love balladry , with townspeople and extras wandering in for the chorus . ’ |
| 35 | Gav — I notice there was no gossip about Batts nipping in to the bank for a few sov 's . |
| 36 | He was thin , and there appeared to be dark patches growing in through the grey of his beard . |
| 37 | The likeliest explanation is that Greek settlers moving in from the south gradually came to dominate the many hill tribes of the region — much as , a little later , Chinese moving into what is now Vietnam came to dominate the local tribes there . |