Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] in at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The damp wind blowing in at the open door made him shiver and he went to wake the others . |
| 2 | ‘ For the first time I saw fear creeping in at Grimsby , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Cocooned in noise , the hostile presence of the rest of the miners oppressing her , she felt fear thrusting in at her with the decibels of the freighter 's flight . |
| 4 | Around nine o'clock on what was now her third night at the Lodge she looked up from the page and saw a face at the dark window staring in at her through the rain . |
| 5 | Theda came to herself to find that she lay in a large four-poster bed , with the curtains drawn back , and the weak autumn sun coming in at the windows . |
| 6 | If you go on holiday for a month , you want another pay cheque going in at the end of the month . |
| 7 | With the B1-R retailing at £550 and the cab weighing in at £460 , that leaves us £500 for a bass . |
| 8 | I have heard that even if they lose 15 per cent of the money coming in at the moment , some of them could fold . |
| 9 | Tony Wilkinson moves to lock , with Clive Freeman coming in at No 8 , while prop Phil Wright , flanker Peter Millichip and full back Ian Stallard return . |
| 10 | OS/2 will get 8.5% of the total workstation market by 1996 , it says , with Unix coming in at a hefty 47% and Windows NT possibly capturing 30–40% of the office desktop/workstation market . |
| 11 | The man peering in at Violet . |
| 12 | The incident , trivial in itself , of 20 November 1946 , culminated three days later in a terrible bombardment of Haiphong which was a prelude to pitched battles in Tonkin between the Vietminh forces and the French ; and although the usually quoted figure of 6,000 Vietnamese dead in Haiphong may be too high , the ease with which casualties of this order could be inflicted , with a French cruiser joining in at close range , suggested misleadingly that when French forces were fully engaged it would be such a one-sided contest that the Vietminh would learn the appropriate lesson . |
| 13 | Every window was black with paint and there was no air coming in at all and you walk in between very very hot ovens and the sweat was lashing down your back . |
| 14 | The lads in the office were outwardly horrified at my drastic action and the usual jokes about sheep and welly boots began to circulate , but I detected a tinge of envy creeping in at times . |
| 15 | A typical moggie is intermediate between these two extremes , with a tom weighing in at about 10 lbs and a queen at 8 lbs . |
| 16 | There seemed to be a child 's face looking in at the window . |
| 17 | He looked round sharply then exhaled deeply when he saw the man 's face peering in at him . |