Example sentences of "[verb] in through the [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Tick crept in through the window of the dining-room and surprised Lady Laetitia Winthrop playing at her virginals ( a likely story ) . |
| 2 | And then , as the pale light of morning crept in through the window , she was awoken by the feel of his mouth on her breasts . |
| 3 | As he crept in through the scullery window she would leap from her bedroom and conceal herself in the nettles , unconscious of the pain . |
| 4 | He came back , and he had been very quick , with an umbrella from which , as he plunged in through the swing door , he was tearing the plastic wrapping . |
| 5 | Lee remembered when a sparrow had flown in through the window of her bedroom when she was a child . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 8 | They could not open the door , so they climbed down from the roof and got in through the window . |
| 9 | I got in through the back gate without being challenged . |
| 10 | ‘ I came to wake you , and I got in through the bathroom , which you forgot to lock . ’ |
| 11 | Somebody 'd broke in , got in through the bedroom winder . |
| 12 | The DHAC and NILP supporters sought to get back into the chamber ; finding the doors locked , they got in through the mayor 's parlour and were joined in the gallery by Alderman Hegarty and Councillor Friel . |
| 13 | The grinning face of the fairground boy leers in through the wire . |
| 14 | Scraps of paper , issuing from the city , came twirling in through the cab window . |
| 15 | ‘ You 'll not find it easy to get the keys from old Joanna , ’ Rhodri remarked with malice , as they passed in through the archway and continued along the town walls . |
| 16 | Anxiety fluttered deep inside her stomach , like thousands of tiny moths , but then they rode in through the north gate of the city and the clamorous bustle of the narrow , crowded streets assaulted her senses . |
| 17 | Catching them was a simple procedure of setting up a wire-mesh peat basket , held up at one side by a stick , with a string attached which led in through the window . |
| 18 | It was cold , too , an icy wind sneaking in through the thatch and through gaps in the mud wall . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Ronnie must have come in through the yard door without her knowing … |
| 21 | Bodie nodded towards the door of Flat 30 and Doyle stepped across to it , dropped to a crouch and peered in through the letterbox . |
| 22 | At last , under the cover of a black moonless night , Grandfather Denknetzeyan stole over to the house and peered in through the kitchen window . |
| 23 | It rattled it once or twice , peered in through the wire mesh of the gate , stamped around for a bit , and then drove off . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | And , by Royal Appointment … the Russian swans fly in through the fog . |
| 26 | He says that he was operating when a bullet wizzed in through the window and hit the surgeon next to him . |
| 27 | He was delighted to find the house still a blaze of light ; that meant the part was still in full swing , which meant Gerard would be busy … and that meant that he should be able to creep in through the kitchen door . |
| 28 | We 've moved in through the looking-glass and now we 're too big , too enormous for egress . |
| 29 | In one case the Divisional Court held that assault was committed where a woman was frightened by the sight of a man looking in through the window of her house , although there seems to have been little suggestion that the man was threatening to apply force either immediately or at all . |
| 30 | He 'd scattered a few items around the place so that anybody looking in through the window would get the impression that the owner was in residence but out for the day or the evening : a box of tissues and some magazines in the main room , a half-empty bottle of fresh milk and some crockery draining in the kitchen . |