Example sentences of "in [prep] the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , two crews decided to run beyond the jetty and get in through the low reeds beyond a willow tree at then end of the jetty . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A heavy south easterly swell rolling in through the wide sounds to the north of Bressay threw Venturous on her beam ends several times , so much so that fuel oil spilled over through the deck breather pipes . |
| 4 | Or he was trying to get in through the one window in the house which was approachable from the tree side . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Cornelius gazed in through the front window of Molly 's Wholefoods . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Do you feel that it 's pointing the right way , bringing the sun in through the right windows at the right time of day ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Scrambling to her feet , Ellie ran after the racing Terry , down the stairs , out the back door , across the grounds and in through the back door of the restaurant . |
| 11 | It is almost as if someone has allowed subsidiarity in through the back door of the Town Hall , but not announced its arrival to anyone . |
| 12 | At the Conservative Party conference in October 1988 Mrs Thatcher stated : ‘ We have n't worked all these years to free Britain from the paralysis of socialism only to see it creep in through the back door of central control and bureaucracy from Brussels ’ . |
| 13 | He came in through the back door on Lily 's afternoon out . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 17 | By the thin moonlight that filtered in through the frosted glass on the front door , Liz could see that he held a silenced gun , and that its calibre was high . |
| 18 | The smell of the flowers came in through the open windows of the bus . |
| 19 | Looking in through the open door of one , I saw a fat , drunk skinhead in a wheelchair . |
| 20 | Just as her words were out one of the charity women came chattering in through the open doors to the terrace . |
| 21 | In contrast , at times Durie looked ready to scream , especially when the errors started creeping in during the second set of her 6-2 , 7-6 win over the promising Yayuk Basuki . |
| 22 | Almost 2,000 knives and other blades have been handed in during the first fortnight of the month-long amnesty . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Ian James walked in during the early hours of the morning and stole a leather jacket and a handbag from the hall . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | And he did so with the support , not only of Hoare , who was his adjutant in all the talks with the Government , but also of Cunliffe-Lister , Hailsham , Eyres-Monsell and Davidson , the last being brought in as the best means of liaison with Baldwin . |
| 27 | At Charing Cross the boatman began to pull in as the deep bend in the river became more pronounced . |
| 28 | Virendra Verma , a Janata Dal member of the Rajya Sabha , was sworn in as the new Governor on June 14 . |
| 29 | Surendra Nath was sworn in as the new governor on Aug. 7 . |
| 30 | Oswaldo Fernandez , was sworn in as the new Director of the National Police Force on Oct. 30 , replacing Gonzalo Menendez Franco who had resigned on Oct. 25 following accusations that he had meddled in politics . |