Example sentences of "[vb past] in through the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Cornelius gazed in through the front window of Molly 's Wholefoods . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She slunk in through the French windows , hoping to creep upstairs unseen . |
| 5 | I could relive it every time I came in through the front door . |
| 6 | She was hanging up the jacket of her plum-coloured suit when Rebecca came in through the outer door . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He came in through the back door on Lily 's afternoon out . |
| 11 | Her father came in through the back door . |
| 12 | The tiny river sounds came in through the open hatches . |
| 13 | The smell of the flowers came in through the open windows of the bus . |
| 14 | The hours passed , daylight faded , and the sounds of a warm September evening came in through the open window . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She turned as two uniformed policemen came in through the main entrance . |
| 17 | Carefully she turned in through the wide hospital gates . |
| 18 | Rain now poured in through the broken window , the wind also whipping through , buffeting Julie as she moved across to the back door . |
| 19 | The next morning , without seeing any of the family , who were heaven knew where , she made herself some breakfast under the smiling gaze of Rose or Mary — she did n't know which — and before she could get into a worry as to whether Feargal had meant his offer to take her to Carlingford he walked in through the back door . |
| 20 | The C130 Hercules of RAF Transport Command , markings hurriedly painted out , stood near the end of the runway , its engines running up as a car swung in through the raised barrier , and past the RAF Regiment guard . |
| 21 | The florist was closed , and they 'd put the fresh stock away , so that when Boy looked in through the first window the flowers he saw were of silk ; all artificial , but so good that they were better and fresher than the real thing , and certainly more expensive . |
| 22 | At eight a.m. it was pouring with rain , and very cold , as the partners of Yeo Davis straggled in through the neat entrance , their footsteps echoing on the tiles . |
| 23 | She went in through the front door , as always . |
| 24 | The last time that that young person went into secure accommodation in Middlesbrough , he went in through the front door at 3.30 pm , and at 5.30 pm he disappeared out the back door and stole a car to make his escape . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He waited another second , then shrugged his shoulders and went in through the double doors . |
| 27 | He went in through the plain mahogany door , and stopped . |
| 28 | Ngo Van Dong and his younger brother , Hoc , huddled close together in the darkness in one of the long huts , their ragged clothes already saturated with the rain that streamed in through the inadequate thatch . |
| 29 | Cold air drifted in through the front door . |
| 30 | Its sensuous aroma drifted in through the open sun-roof , provoking a little series of painful memories of country walks in Oxfordshire with Mortimer … |