Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] in through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dogs can easily leap over it or get in through the hedge on the south side . |
| 2 | Ngo Van Dong and his younger brother , Hoc , huddled close together in the darkness in one of the long huts , their ragged clothes already saturated with the rain that streamed in through the inadequate thatch . |
| 3 | By the thin moonlight that filtered in through the frosted glass on the front door , Liz could see that he held a silenced gun , and that its calibre was high . |
| 4 | In analysing the information that comes in through the eyes , the brain works ‘ bottom up ’ , piecing together the information from individual retinal cells into larger wholes , and ‘ top down ’ , comparing pre-existing models in the brain with the visual input . |
| 5 | They could not open the door , so they climbed down from the roof and got in through the window . |
| 6 | They walked briskly over to the two cars and Plumpton bent down and peered in through the windows of the Mini . |
| 7 | Bodie nodded towards the door of Flat 30 and Doyle stepped across to it , dropped to a crouch and peered in through the letterbox . |
| 8 | At last , under the cover of a black moonless night , Grandfather Denknetzeyan stole over to the house and peered in through the kitchen window . |
| 9 | It was a slow , infuriating process , and as A roads gave way to B and Robyn neared her destination already two hours late , the slowly darkening skies became as black and as desperate as Robyn 's frame of mind , until the heavens opened and it started to pour — not reasonable , perfectly acceptable drops of rain from a warm July sky , but pounding , penetrating torrents that battered and bounced off the roof of the jeep and seeped in through the ill-fitting windows . |
| 10 | Across the highway , the driver of the second rig swung his wheel hard over and accelerated in through the gap in the wake of the three fire tenders . |
| 11 | He did n't mind losing his board and slogging in through the breaking waves . |
| 12 | ‘ I used to walk past it and peep in through the windows and think how much I 'd love to live there , ’ she confesses . |
| 13 | and peering in through the front door |
| 14 | Raiders lifted tiles and climbed in through the roof space to take the guns and 150 rounds of ammunition . |
| 15 | Raiders lifted tiles and climbed in through the roof space to take the guns and 150 rounds of ammunition . |
| 16 | On the other hand , two crews decided to run beyond the jetty and get in through the low reeds beyond a willow tree at then end of the jetty . |
| 17 | He parked his car and walked in through the yard . |
| 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 | I stopped in the lane for a moment , as I often do , before I climbed the steps to the front door , and looked in through the windows . |
| 20 | He waited another second , then shrugged his shoulders and went in through the double doors . |
| 21 | The first time she rang the bell and went in through the front doors of the elegant old house where the showrooms were situated ( Mattli had no rear entrance ) Paula felt she was stepping into the place of her dreams . |
| 22 | So there I am , during this rather romantic conversation , toying with the little hairs in it 's ears , not knowing whether I should try and get in through the snout or what — but it had a happy ending . |
| 23 | Just then Uncle Alfred and Sylvia Swan arrived and peeped in through the gate at the happy crowd . |
| 24 | 'Bye for now ! ’ she called , and ran in through the imposing front door . |
| 25 | McAllister had apologised to Rose for refusing her invitation — she had sewing to do for the bazaar , she said — when the front door had banged shut behind her and she had been compelled to run round to the back and come in through the kitchen . |