Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [v-ing] in [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afterwards I sit with him in the room at the back , the late afternoon light still coming in through the windows . |
| 2 | Given the amount of negative equity still locking in to the system , it may be instructive to look at the UK consumer 's reaction to lower interest rates . |
| 3 | The end point can vary between the parent just giving in for a peaceful life , the whole event fizzling out with the child still not having done what was asked or the parent having smacked the child and walked away . |
| 4 | Sherrin recalled the actor occasionally phoning in with ideas for the monologues , but Crawford 's desire to deliver a eulogy to Sir Winston Churchill after the wartime Prime Minister 's funeral met with a cold response from his producer . |
| 5 | Since entrances were not screened and materials were poor — many of them one brick thick or built in pisé , a version of mud — they were cold and cheerless , with rain actually driving in through the walls . |
| 6 | The antibiotic mould supposedly drifting in on the wind becomes prosaic when its magic is revealed only by tedious operations in a laboratory or factory . |
| 7 | The goods shed at the back , and the train just coming in from Lincoln there . |
| 8 | Certainly it was watched by a fair few housewives , posh farkers or not , with growing numbers of women around the country now tuning in for Paul Merton 's steadily increasing TV appearances . |
| 9 | I have been listening in to the E-Mail for some weeks , and in fact even coming in on weekend to pick up the results and comments . |