Example sentences of "[v-ing] in [prep] the [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Joe Nichols in the New York Times wrote that ‘ Lester Piggott rode with the competence that has stamped him as one of the world 's great riders , and brought his mount home in time ’ , the Washington Post thought that ‘ there could be fault-finding with Piggott 's tactics in tucking in on the rail and not asking his mount for more of the effort he had in reserve ’ . |
| 2 | It was cold , too , an icy wind sneaking in through the thatch and through gaps in the mud wall . |
| 3 | Alerted by a grapevine of unparalleled efficiency to the presence of honkies with money , hitherto undiscovered talents began swarming in from the ghettos and down from the hills , bearing tape-recordings , even guitars , for impromptu auditions . |
| 4 | People and animals portray in this , in the Tahiti painting , never seemed to be in a hurry , erm , even when always relaxed even when working and I wondered how much of this was cultural and erm , how much was due to the large amounts of erm drugs consumed in most paintings at this , this period but that I suppose I 'll , I 'll never know for sure about , erm with this painting I found in the background , er there 's a figure , that 's looking in on the situation and I , I for myself think 's its probably Gaugin , as he portrays himself as Christ , which I think he did quite a lot to me in , in , in a few of his paintings and so this painting gave me tremendous sense of being looked in on and this figure in the background , was the person that was doing the looking in . |
| 5 | Then our eyes will be firmly caught and firmly held by a bent female figure hurrying in through the door and across the room towards us . |
| 6 | Who were going in for the exam and I were n't allowed to help them . |
| 7 | Because of the growing publicity surrounding his movements , he decided to lose himself in the crowd , going in through the turnstiles and watching the player from the terraces . |
| 8 | Reading , yeah you look round at people and then somebody comes rushing in through the door and you 've never seen then before , what do you do ? |
| 9 | More flakes sifted down like meal , sifted and sifted , drifting in at the embrasure and lying on the flagstones , unmelting . |
| 10 | When the dust settled yesterday Michael Knighton , a thwarted professional footballer who has been elected to the Manchester United board , spoke bitterly of the vilification he claims to have endured since moving in on the club and Martin Edwards , the chief executive . |
| 11 | Windeler glanced across before giving in to the slope and changing down through the gears . |
| 12 | And Francis almost made it five on the stroke of half-time , cutting in from the right and curling a left-foot shot just wide . |
| 13 | These three members of the Procellariidae family have one thing in common : they are all ‘ night birds ’ , only coming in to the screes and grassy slopes of the cliffs under cover of darkness to change places with their mate on the single egg , deep within a burrow , or later to feed the young . |
| 14 | What happened in Liverpool when Liverpool were playing ho oh , Nottingham Forest , and what happened was is that there was extra fans coming in to the ground and the police let them in and then everyone just started to get squashed and all that . |
| 15 | They feel they are creative enough to win , even without the injured John Barnes , whose place on the left flank will go to Chris Waddle with David Rocastle coming in on the right and Steve McMahon and Bryan Robson taking the middle . |
| 16 | and they 're coming in with the colds and the shivers and not feeling very well . |
| 17 | It 's when I , when I went to Poland it 's not two or three years , it was nineteen seventy three and I was , I was just coming in into the church and the one Witness was with me and we were going in er big town like Cracow , you know , we were going one way and there was a couple coming erm to meet us like you know in , in , in , on the road , and he was just wearing erm jeans and no shirt , but erm a big , big wooden cross on his chest just reaching really across his chest a wooden cross and then erm a safety pin in his nose and three safety pins attached to one another through his ears and this Witness with me walking down , she says just look at this couple and the girl was , wore the same dress she , she had the top on , you know , but again all sort of queer looking and she , this Witness with me , with me so , she said just look at the two that 's er coming aga to meet us and I said yes and I looked and I said look at the cross and she says yes , it used to be , they used to hang the criminals on the crosses and now the crosses hang on the criminals is n't that lovely , and now the cross is er all the criminals instead of the cross , oh yes |
| 18 | I was reading some gimcrack book about economics , full of those pictograms that fall half-way between diagrams and drawings , when I heard the thudding of a diesel engine running under the roar of the gale coming in off the sea and over the whirr of the fan heater that was marinading my feet . |
| 19 | ‘ I think they know what 's to be done , Mrs Crumwallis , ’ said Hilary Frome , coming in from the sitting-room and taking immediate charge . |
| 20 | God knows how much there still is down there ; I 've seen great stacks and bales of it still with the Royal Navy markings on it , and I 've dreamed up any number of ways of getting at it , but short of tunnelling in from the shed and taking the cordite out from the back , so that the bales looked untouched from the inside of the cellar , I do n't see how I could do it . |
| 21 | ‘ Plunging in at the anus and tunnelling a giant point of exit at the sockets … one part giant surge of flesh , one part holy revelation . ’ |
| 22 | The idea of literally dropping in on the enemy and catching them unawares would have seemed attractive after several months ' idleness . |
| 23 | He 'd said his prayers and celebrated Mass , Benedicta just slipping in at the door and kneeling next to the baptismal font instead of coming further up the nave . |
| 24 | They 're cashing in , but at least they 're cashing in on the locals and not just on the Leeds . |
| 25 | Fog was creeping in over the island and in the distance the deep boom of a foghorn sounded , echoing her own sudden melancholy . |
| 26 | Well no it 's , it 's the same councillors that 's come to your door that are sitting in on the meeting and saying no , it 's impossible ! |
| 27 | A benign observer of the event , sitting in among the press and nursing his hangover , would have cast his eye unenthusiastically over the massed ranks of what Sir Peregrine Worsthorne had once described in Mrs Thatcher 's golden days as ‘ the most successful political party in the world ’ : ‘ Essex Man ’ and ‘ Wessex Woman ’ , stockjobbers , garage-owners and a scattering of country women in lavender tweeds . |
| 28 | The sun was slanting in through the windows and heating the place up . |
| 29 | When it came to practice , the weather was appalling , with low clouds streaming in from the sea and rain falling constantly . |