Example sentences of "[v-ing] in [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They reached Airman 's Grave and paused together beside its perimeter wall , gazing in at the poignant tribute to one victim of a long-ago conflict , though not as long-ago , it occurred to Derek , as the conflict which had recently extended its crabbed old hand to touch their lives . |
| 2 | As I got out I caught the enigmatic Mr Goodson sneaking in through the front door , but if he 'd seen me pull up , he did n't wait to say Hello . |
| 3 | So off we went out and we played our football , and I came back , and we were sneaking in through the back door and bumped right into him . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For the first time I noticed the brothers ' yarmulkes in the somewhat subdued light of the boardroom , plain black skullcaps blending in with the pale glow of the room . |
| 6 | I remember hens , large grey ones , wandering in through the back door . |
| 7 | On the first day the Champion Hurdle had been won by Kribensis ( owned by Sheikh Mohammed and trained by Michael Stoute ) from Nomadic Way ( owned by Robert Sangster and trained by Barry Hills ) — powerful Flat racing connections elbowing in on the jumping scene . |
| 8 | Looking in through the open door of one , I saw a fat , drunk skinhead in a wheelchair . |
| 9 | The feet should be kept in the straps until sheeting in on the new tack , thereby keeping the board on its banked course throughout the crucial rig change . |
| 10 | Vincent barely managed to keep his temper in check in the blast of this ‘ raw north wind ’ that had come howling in through the front door . |
| 11 | He swerved past it , stopped and , looking back , saw Bigwig come racing in from the opposite side . |
| 12 | the basis is you keep going in at the wrong level it 's the educational process at ground level |
| 13 | ‘ I never like going in through the front door , ’ Ace said , ‘ but I guess you 're right . ’ |
| 14 | He gave it a few pumps and collected an armful of logs for the stove before going in through the back door . |
| 15 | Going in by the back door |
| 16 | While still leafing through the statements he turned to Sara : ‘ We have a witness who claims to have seen you in Alexandra Road after eleven on Saturday night , and you may know that a woman was seen going in by the back door of this house at half-past . ’ |
| 17 | and peering in through the front door |
| 18 | She suggested calling in on the local correspondent to see what his views were . |
| 19 | Their acquiescence was to be encouraged by a campaign of information and by mobilising convinced peasants to persuade recalcitrant ones , but nothing could stop the tractors from moving in on the appointed day . |
| 20 | Network Computing Devices Inc pretty much has the dedicated X-terminal business sewn up , and the Mountain View , California company is now moving in on the personal computer X Window System emulation business with launch of PC-Xware , a single software package that it claims provides full X terminal functionality on personal computers for the first time . |
| 21 | Network Computing Devices Inc has the dedicated X-terminal business pretty much sewn up , and the Mountain View , California company is now moving in on the personal computer X Window System emulation business dominated by the likes of Canadian outfit Hummingbird Communications Ltd and UK firm XVision Ltd , with launch of PC-Xware , a single software package that it claims provides full X terminal functionality on personal computers for the first time . |
| 22 | The very first sortie that I did when the war started was with No 77 Squadron in a Whitley to take pamphlets to Germany , flying in at the top end near Kiel and going throughout the Ruhr spreading these horrors of war on the germans telling them " you are wicked naughty Germans and if you do n't mend your ways Hamish will come back tomorrow night and drop some more paper on you " . |
| 23 | Four hundred aircraft will be flying in for the International Air Tattoo at R-A-F Fairford , the biggest airshow in the world . |
| 24 | The danger of cracking heads with Bairstow flying in from the other side is as good a reason as any for its omission . |
| 25 | Certainly not the army of supporters who 've been painting , odd-jobbing and generally mucking in over the past week . |
| 26 | The project will cover a range of industries and types of change , linking in with the extensive analysis of technology from the economics and managerial literature . |
| 27 | Patients were flocking in for the new treatment . |
| 28 | His appeal must have met with some response because although some hundreds of people did leave for Fort-de-France , many hundreds more sought refuge in St Pierre itself , flocking in from the surrounding countryside , so that on the morning of 8 May , as many as 30,000 people were probably crowding the town . |
| 29 | The authorities warned young people about the ‘ unhealthy winds ’ blowing in through the open door , such as sexual promiscuity , pornography and prostitution , homosexuality , alcohol abuse and drugs . |
| 30 | The scents of the garden , blowing in through the open window , had removed the last trace of stuffiness from the room . |