Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] in through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew it would be tantamount to suicide to try to go in through the open doorway so she made her way cautiously around the side of the building , careful to duck low enough under the shattered windows to avoid detection . |
| 2 | Vincent barely managed to keep his temper in check in the blast of this ‘ raw north wind ’ that had come howling in through the front door . |
| 3 | A baffled ox has horned in through the wall . |
| 4 | Scraps of paper , issuing from the city , came twirling in through the cab window . |
| 5 | Just as her words were out one of the charity women came chattering in through the open doors to the terrace . |
| 6 | The glass exploded outwards and rain suddenly came pouring in through the hole . |
| 7 | On this bright evening , they were looped back by twisted and tasselled cords ; light came streaming in through the sashed plate-glass windows . |
| 8 | ‘ I never like going in through the front door , ’ Ace said , ‘ but I guess you 're right . ’ |
| 9 | Ronnie must have come in through the yard door without her knowing … |
| 10 | I found a small but perfectly-formed hailstone on my knee , which must have got in through the air vent . |
| 11 | It turned out to have come in through the curved zip which is unprotected by a weather flap . |
| 12 | They were waiting for the lift when they saw a man come hurrying in through the swing doors . |
| 13 | Mostly she quizzed me about the burglars and I said they 'd tried to get in through the bathroom window and one of them had put a foot through it , probably coming from the roof next door , and I generally made out that there was a whole gang of footpads up there lying in wait for Santa Claus . |
| 14 | Around eight o'clock the sound of distant brass bands can again be heard wafting in through the bedroom windows . |
| 15 | Lee remembered when a sparrow had flown in through the window of her bedroom when she was a child . |
| 16 | The rear window of one of the shops looked out over poor Mary 's deposited remains and Martin had to go in through the narrow entrance to flash his lamp on it . |
| 17 | As Major Pond discovered , seat-holders were let in through side doors while hoi polloi had to come in through the front in the hope of getting what they could . |
| 18 | We 've moved in through the looking-glass and now we 're too big , too enormous for egress . |
| 19 | A taxi had dropped him and his luggage at the main railway station , he had walked in through the entrance with a porter in attendance ; and that was that . |
| 20 | And yet , cruising the crowd for those overheards that can often give clues to the deeper meaning of an occasion , it became clear that one or two paying punters , a few common or garden turnstile cowboys , had slipped in through the security net . |
| 21 | Or he was trying to get in through the one window in the house which was approachable from the tree side . |
| 22 | The birds , when they come shooting in through the darkness , seldom land exactly beside their nest hole . |
| 23 | Erm , but we are n't going to the sort of , end of degree , that er , I say this , and then you sort of enter stage left and say this , and I respond like this , and then erm , something else happens , and then somebody comes crashing in through the door . |
| 24 | What 's happened is , of course , that as the costs have fallen and the micros have come in through the door so they 're very much smaller , erm it all becomes possible for the whole of society and not for a tiny elite . |
| 25 | Reading , yeah you look round at people and then somebody comes rushing in through the door and you 've never seen then before , what do you do ? |