Example sentences of "[v-ing] in [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We stand outside the Glass House for a moment , looking in at the dense green leaves pressing against the panes . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In the second half , Joey Beauchamp came flying in like the daring young man on the trapeze . |
| 4 | Charles swept the land twice with his armies , burning and killing wherever he could find victims , but the Saxons held out in the impenetrable forests and marshes , closing in behind the Frankish military movements . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Sea-water was washing in over the slippery grey stones . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | On this bright evening , they were looped back by twisted and tasselled cords ; light came streaming in through the sashed plate-glass windows . |