Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] in [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She pulled them on hastily , half expecting Luke to come bursting in at any minute . |
| 2 | The Sergeant came rushing in from next door . |
| 3 | ‘ We found him in bed in his study , his face turned to the window , where the sun came streaming in through flowering plants … |
| 4 | ‘ I 've seen tackles going in from other sides that would without question produce a booking for a United player . ’ |
| 5 | I enjoy focusing in on single leaves and always try to differentiate between tree types : the oak , ash and sycamore . |
| 6 | But the first thing she had to do was suss out the lie of the land — there was no point in going charging in with all guns blazing . |
| 7 | Leggy Linda Lusardi has just been told that her new job involves moving in with seven adoring men . |
| 8 | Whitlow coming in on that near post the goalkeeper was very decisive then and er has benefited by getting the free kick Tommy Wright . |
| 9 | Yeah , I just Like cashing in on other people 's misery . |
| 10 | For years he was a member of the Saturday sub editorial staff processing the comprehensive sports copy flowing in from all parts of the world for Ireland Saturday Night , a newspaper for which he had a deep affection . |
| 11 | I 'd like to go along with it , but I think it 's an area that ou ought to be clear when , er , grants coming in for some or even minor building works , there ought to be a specification within , whether the building can cover it or whatever . |
| 12 | Instead , he has relied on great fitness and stamina to enable him to keep sprinting in at full pace , and speed of arm and perfect balance to capitalize on the momentum ; combined with an unrelenting desire to keep on taking more and more wickets , it has all proved irresistible . |
| 13 | What money did you have coming in at that time in fact ? |
| 14 | And that 's when we started putting in for annual wage increases . |
| 15 | If Candy realised the game Adam was playing , she would go storming in with all guns blazing , never stopping to think of the possible consequences , all her protective instincts roused in defence of her best friend . |
| 16 | But Elsie Birdsall and Lavinia Thwaites kept coming in with all kinds of things to try and get me going — home-made soups , arrowroot , custards — and finally I began to mend a little . |
| 17 | But the attempt to remove the deer failed in both forests , because fresh stock kept coming in from adjoining woods . |
| 18 | Trevor , who enjoys joining in with Northumbrian folk fiddlers such as Alistair Anderson , believes the Swaledale Festival has done much to revive Dales music-making — by choirs as well as instrumentalists . |
| 19 | When I am sitting up there working with the librarian , pupils will come trotting in with little notes from teachers saying " I have been sent in to ask for books on … " and off they will go for that lesson which is what she wanted , so they have achieved it . |
| 20 | Watch it Tim and see what happens because that yellow bit will start mingling in with all the other bit . |