Example sentences of "in [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Breathing it in through the nose , the mouth . |
| 2 | ‘ Otherwise she 'd have surely woken up , with someone coming in through her window . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I would n't wear muddy hunting boots if I was going to climb in through a bedroom window and murder a lady , ’ said Ethel . |
| 4 | However , the proposals , kicked out of the front door last year , are now coming in through the back . |
| 5 | That evening is I crouched at the back of the slit trench , swatting the mauses and listening to the sound of shells passing over and the rain dripping steadily in through the entrance to the trench , I stared at the pool of water getting larger and hoped that the rain would soon stop , if it does n't I 'm in for an uncomfortable night . |
| 6 | The man in the row in front arches backwards over his seat , his breath sucked in through clenched teeth . |
| 7 | I walked in through the door and , feeling a bit lost , I asked the first person I saw if he knew whether the Social Secretary was around . |
| 8 | She got an enthusiastic response , ‘ Of course , Mrs Petherington , I can stay in through my lunch-break if need be . |
| 9 | ‘ The Japanese are coming in through ‘ Big Bang ’ ’ . |
| 10 | The architects , Derek Irvine Associates , were obliged to locate the main ‘ public ’ staircase at the centre of the plan with light flooding in through the roof-light which straddles the roof ridge above , because the considerable width of the building — 11.4m ( 37ft ) — necessitated some means of introducing light into the middle if gloomy internal corridors were to be avoided . |
| 11 | The chimps ' individuality has always delighted and fascinated her , and Jomeo and Gigi , two full-blown eccentrics , are given a chapter each in Through a Window . |
| 12 | Her body lay at the rest in the chapel downstairs , the light filtering in through lancet windows on her oak coffin and the dark-stained , hand-carved pews . |
| 13 | Who was the burglar breaking in through an entryphone ? |
| 14 | Perhaps he was in cahoots with the one who got in through a skylark ? |
| 15 | Thoughts fly to Tom — he could probably break in through plumbing outlet or shin gracefully up drainpipe . |
| 16 | ‘ We found him in bed in his study , his face turned to the window , where the sun came streaming in through flowering plants … |
| 17 | At eight a.m. it was pouring with rain , and very cold , as the partners of Yeo Davis straggled in through the neat entrance , their footsteps echoing on the tiles . |
| 18 | McLeish stopped at the door of the interview room and looked in through the spy-hole , wanting to get some feel for the evidently hostile and , by all accounts , neurotic Penelope Huntley . |
| 19 | But Mrs Wright turned in through her entrance . |
| 20 | Philip jumped up to see if he could get a look in through the window . |
| 21 | Lee went out of the hide , letting rain in through the opening . |
| 22 | Dot took a chance peek in through the crack between where the two doors met . |
| 23 | Dot peered in through the tiny curtained windows of the dolls ' house and saw quiet furnished rooms , the playroom , kitchen , parlour , waiting to be lived in , a table set for tea , beds to be slept in , armchairs to be sat on . |
| 24 | Loopy Lil blew in through the side door like a bundle of old rags with tiny crystals of white on her woollen hood . |
| 25 | A baffled ox has horned in through the wall . |
| 26 | So when I went creaking up the winding back staircase to the two attics and looked in through their respective doors ( ‘ Do n't touch , dear … |
| 27 | Simon was standing , looking in through the serving-hatch . |
| 28 | Next I 'll see his white hand , sliding in through the serving hatch . |
| 29 | Somebody 'd broke in , got in through the bedroom winder . |
| 30 | The tide was rising : it came filtering gently in through the salt-marsh vegetation , washing up the beach and receding , leaving ribbons of foam along the sand . |