Example sentences of "in [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | By the 14th Serafin is being steered back across Whitehall , out of the pale sunshine , and in through the threatening corridors of the Cabinet Office towards these peaceful quarters at the rear , where rooms have already been quietly set aside for him . |
| 4 | The smell of the flowers came in through the open windows of the bus . |
| 5 | The Royal Duke was a fishermen 's pub with an afternoon trade from men who had brought their catch in during the small hours of the morning . |
| 6 | Ian James walked in during the early hours of the morning and stole a leather jacket and a handbag from the hall . |
| 7 | This is almost certainly because the decision to send them in during the later stages of the accident was political ( western-made robots might have been used instead , had the new Soviet leader , one Mikhail Gorbachev , been willing to let the West learn the extent of the disaster ) . |
| 8 | After the news of the secret negotiations between the government , Leyland Vehicles and GM broke in February 1986 , the government allowed alternative bids to be put in for the different parts of the firm . |
| 9 | When he left the Kunstgewerbeschule in 1936 he set up in Zurich as a freelance photograph , a job he fitted in between the traditional periods of military service compulsory in Switzerland , then worked for a year in the famous magazine Graphics . |
| 10 | For in between the two pages of words he had brought himself off , face stretched tight with lust , mind gurgling with images of the girl with black hair and red boots kneeling on a bed so that her full young breasts with long pink nipples dangled into his palms as he mounted her from behind , calling for her to cream , baby , cream . |
| 11 | The weather may have helped but , as she saw things now in between the momentary spasms of pain , it was going to happen anyway . |
| 12 | It crept in amongst the ordered ranks of hieroglyphics in a simple line of graffiti , scrawled in French , on the hull of one of the royal barques : " You must not forget me . " |
| 13 | ‘ If you can do that , then you have in your mind what the strong target notes are and you can start going in with the other notes of the scale . |
| 14 | The detailed character of financial , administrative and legal restraints imposed by Whitehall may change but the general effect remains the same — local councillors are expected to fit in with the political priorities of the government of the day . |
| 15 | Miracles are supposed to fit in with the unscientific views of the ancients , but not with out own scientific views . |
| 16 | Back from Cuba , his belief in non-violence now a fading memory , he fell in with the dope-smoking radicals of the key young radical movement , Students for a Democratic Society . |
| 17 | Where such arguments did not fit in with the overarching themes of race , violence and disorder , and social deprivation they were either sidelined or pushed into the sub-clauses of official reports . |
| 18 | GM schools will be able to change their character if that is what parents clearly want and the change fits in with the wider needs of the local area . |
| 19 | Andre had fallen in with the legendary Lafons of Meursault — Dominique Lafon was at college at the same time , and Lafon pere had become something of a mentor . |
| 20 | Many areas have special schemes which fit in with the particular needs of individual people at home . |
| 21 | ‘ No doubt , ’ said Mr Harold Brooks-Baker of Burke 's , ‘ it fits in with the freer ways of today but some feel that freedom is an over-used word . |
| 22 | While Northumberland was imprisoned in the Tower ( 1605–21 ) , Warner brought his books from Syon , and joined in with the learned discussions of the earl and his other mathematical and scientific clients — Thomas Harriot , Robert Hues , and Nathaniel Torporley [ qq.v . ] . |
| 23 | As yet there is usually a reluctance to follow the Psalmist in including the negative aspects of human emotion , but songs have considerable potential for the expression of anger and sadness . |
| 24 | Sculpture comes in from the far reaches of the Pavillon de Flore at the Louvre |
| 25 | A child was brought in in the last stages of diphtheria . |
| 26 | As to the first , it is not surprising that poorer citizens , especially those from more distant demes , found it hard to walk in to the frequent meetings of the Council ( though the argument from distance should not be overstated : Andokides ( i.38 ) mentions an early morning walk of twenty miles from Laurion to Athens as nothing special ) . |
| 27 | I think the things that have come out of this for me er from Councillor actually is that it would be unlikely that we , we or would be allocating that plan today and I think the amount of traffic has increased through the town centre would make it foolish and one does wonder at the wisdom if all the development went along which had to be serviced then through er Street and through the town centre in to the main areas of employment that happened years ago . |
| 28 | This distraction allowed the Wolverines to close in on the flanged skirts of the arena . |
| 29 | We never saw Chilete until suddenly we were in among the grey ghosts of houses , the road rutted now and full of mud . |
| 30 | Broussac , on our way home , stopped to jeer in at the lighted windows of Master Ferrebourg 's office . |