Example sentences of "[v-ing] in [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There seemed to be a child 's face looking in at the window . |
| 32 | " You did n't mind me looking in at the window , Stephen ? |
| 33 | She wailed , standing there , looking in at the room that had nothing left of him . |
| 34 | Looking in at the observation ward , with its partly screened beds , she hoped that Mike Quinn — poor man — would n't take it into his head to go in a hurry . |
| 35 | However , Pound 's diagnosis of Williams 's condition was surely perceptive : Williams could abide American reality ( where Pound and Eliot had to flee from it ) because , as in the admirable ‘ To Elsie ’ ( ’ The pure products of America / go crazy' ) , he remained the immigrant , the outsider looking in on the behaviour of the nation that he had been , by the sheerest accident , born to . |
| 36 | People and animals portray in this , in the Tahiti painting , never seemed to be in a hurry , erm , even when always relaxed even when working and I wondered how much of this was cultural and erm , how much was due to the large amounts of erm drugs consumed in most paintings at this , this period but that I suppose I 'll , I 'll never know for sure about , erm with this painting I found in the background , er there 's a figure , that 's looking in on the situation and I , I for myself think 's its probably Gaugin , as he portrays himself as Christ , which I think he did quite a lot to me in , in , in a few of his paintings and so this painting gave me tremendous sense of being looked in on and this figure in the background , was the person that was doing the looking in . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | I was up at Sea House one night , looking in through the window — " |
| 40 | " I 'm afraid of what she 'll do , " the man says when I was looking in through the window , and then the other woman goes up to him and starts loving him . |
| 41 | She realised with a slight shock that she was staring straight at a man who was looking in through the shop window , staring back . |
| 42 | Simon was standing , looking in through the serving-hatch . |
| 43 | Looking in from the street is a great pleasure , the eye being led through interesting vistas of rooms and courtyards within . |
| 44 | Yes , and this is why I want to look at this week at a glance diary , so that you will go away and I want you to fill this in as I 'm filling in on the board , you 'll go away with an idea what a diary , sorry , spit there , ha , erm , of what a diary will look like roughly , so that you know what your diary should look like every week . |
| 45 | The key-fobs sent to each individual member and Group secretary during 1979 have been a great success with many people writing in to the office expressing their appreciation ; it is hoped to produce a further token during out 30th anniversary year . |
| 46 | I only explained I was listening in at the time . |
| 47 | Since then , police have been listening in to the frequency used by the gang . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | But primitive man guards himself against that by listening in to the being of the person who is uttering the words and by adding this to his evaluation of the words . |
| 50 | A Polynesian folktale tells of Rata , who travelled across the ocean and ingeniously outwitted a hungry whale by jamming open its jaws with a broken oar ; venturing in through the mouth he came face to face with his parents who had been gulped down before him . |
| 51 | A soft light was flooding in through the tower windows . |
| 52 | The eastern states say they badly need an extra 4,500 judges , 1,000 state prosecutors and 1,300 lawyers — not least to deal with the hundreds of thousands of property claims flooding in from the west . |
| 53 | In these lonely hours , sitting in Brick Lane in the East End or Lamb Lane in Bradford , vivid memories come flooding in from the past , from the life before this semi-existence . |
| 54 | Then our eyes will be firmly caught and firmly held by a bent female figure hurrying in through the door and across the room towards us . |
| 55 | They were waiting for the lift when they saw a man come hurrying in through the swing doors . |
| 56 | The glass exploded outwards and rain suddenly came pouring in through the hole . |
| 57 | He opened the curtains on stark daylight , and a bright sea pouring in along the beach . |
| 58 | Advance orders are said to be pouring in for the LP Portrait and single Blue Days . |
| 59 | Every one hundred thousand Soviet immigrants delays by one year the deadline , soon they will be pouring in at the record rate of twenty a thousand month . |
| 60 | Initially , he had much sympathy from the British trade union movement , funds pouring in from the mainland , including almost £pound94,000 collected by the Trades Union Congress . |