Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] in [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was cold , too , an icy wind sneaking in through the thatch and through gaps in the mud wall . |
| 2 | Many gardeners believe that an informal pool should be planted liberally , with waterlilies obscuring areas of the water surface , and reeds and rushes tumbling in from the garden . |
| 3 | This is the life down on the Copacobana beach in Rio … sun shining … waves crashing in on the sand … and its here that Liz Macdonald from Gloucester is setting off on the second leg of the British Steel Challenge … she 's on board the Nuclear Electric yacht … from Rio they round Cape Horn and head for Hobart … they 'll be racing for six weeks … |
| 4 | ‘ But I think it is a pointless exercise , ’ said Floy , somewhere towards morning , a thin , cold light filtering in through the windows to where he sat at a great desk , his black hair tumbled , hollows in his cheeks , his face white with fatigue . |
| 5 | I feel er something of a stranger walking in on the Maastricht reunion er annual dinner er at the er I have to say that erm I er would n't wish to cross swords with the honourable gentleman on the detail of the Maastricht bill but certainly but certainly I 'ave to say that for many people and maybe even some people on this own side who may be prepared to admit it , the false divide between Euro sceptics and Euro fanatics is one that does n't appeal to the new generations of members and I suspect on both sides of the house , we are in our considered view in Europe and we need to make the best of it and treat Europe on its merits rather than re-live the battles of the er late seventies and early eighties . |
| 6 | However , Pound 's diagnosis of Williams 's condition was surely perceptive : Williams could abide American reality ( where Pound and Eliot had to flee from it ) because , as in the admirable ‘ To Elsie ’ ( ’ The pure products of America / go crazy' ) , he remained the immigrant , the outsider looking in on the behaviour of the nation that he had been , by the sheerest accident , born to . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Initially , he had much sympathy from the British trade union movement , funds pouring in from the mainland , including almost £pound94,000 collected by the Trades Union Congress . |
| 9 | old said I do n't want any of the lads going in with the girls |
| 10 | Should be a few goals going in at the Baseball Ground on Sunday … the central live match is Derby County against Oxford United … |
| 11 | When Rosalind and Philip first moved in , it was in a pretty parlous condition , with , amongst other nightmares , an elder tree with its roots in the great hall and its branches spreading in through the windows . |
| 12 | This index was started by Herbarium staff , who scanned new journals and books coming in to the Library . |
| 13 | Led by Major Ronnie Tod , 30 men went ashore and had hardly been gone a few minutes when Dudley Clarke and the commander saw the dark outline of a boat coming in from the sea . |
| 14 | Since the 1920's Berlin has been a city encountered through images : Doblin , Pabst and Isherwood ; the diabolic glamour of Nazism ; Year Zero ; the Airlift ; John Kennedy and spies coming in from the cold ; the generation of " 68 , the stylized desperation of the punk underground , and angels made corporeal . |
| 15 | A very simple picture , again , it 's er you could n't have anything much more simple than this , just two waves coming in onto the shingle beach and er you can almost hear the the the waves rushing u running across the shingle . |
| 16 | A stranger coming in to the house that you 've never seen before |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Or was it the east wind blowing in through the open bell tower with renewed force ? |
| 19 | The damp wind blowing in at the open door made him shiver and he went to wake the others . |
| 20 | Fortinbras coming in at the end , when Hamlet 's dead and everyone 's dead . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The first of these sets the amount of effect coming in from the JMP 's effects loop — a really good idea and all amps should have this in some form . |
| 23 | That 's a lot of light coming in on the back I think . |
| 24 | I inspected the room in the faint light coming in around the shutters . |
| 25 | Her face was a white blur under the dark cloak and hood she wore as protection against the fierce wind coming in off the sea . |
| 26 | Hark at the wind coming in through the |
| 27 | Just the club cashing in with the sad sheep crawling out of the woodwork everywhere . |
| 28 | But , unfortunately , there are also restaurants cashing in on the brasserie bandwagon by serving cheap , cheerful and desperately trendy bistro food in designer surroundings — and charging the earth for it . |
| 29 | During these periods , the great tides sweeping in from the Atlantic would first feel the initial restriction of the Bristol Channel . |
| 30 | But the wind sweeping in from the sea even got to him , with the Open Champion dropping four shots in three holes , including a double bogey five at the treacherous 15th . |