Example sentences of "in [prep] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moments later there was an almighty crash and a head flew in through the door of the hangar and bounced across the floor . |
| 2 | Ven offered as they walked in through the door of his suite . |
| 3 | Bias may creep in through the wording of questions ( which may be ambiguous , unintelligible or suggestive of a particular answer ) , through the careless recording of answers , through the interviewer 's ( perhaps unwitting ) influence over response-patterns and through a general failure of the interviewer to establish the kind of rapport with the respondent that enables him or her to give truthful answers on personal matters . |
| 4 | Goods brought in through the Port of London were widely distributed by way of the River Thames and the Grand Union Canal which linked to the Midlands . |
| 5 | Primed with the good advice , but uncertain how far he could follow it , Greg went in through the hall of the cottage , artificially created by modern alterations , and knocked at the far door on the right . |
| 6 | He flew to a dead branch , paused for a moment , and then darted in through the hole of the nest box . |
| 7 | As you inhale , imagine you are drawing energy from this source of light , in through the top of your head and out through your hands and feet as you exhale . |
| 8 | The sample from Tornewton came from the cave of that name ( Sutcliffe & Zeuner , 1962 ) , and the owl was roosting in an overhead tree and dropping its pellets in through the top of the cave ( see p. 96 ) . |
| 9 | They walked briskly over to the two cars and Plumpton bent down and peered in through the windows of the Mini . |
| 10 | Slowly struggling up from the depths of deep unconsciousness , Laura flicked open her eyelids , only to shut them firmly again as she winced at the brilliant sunshine flooding in through the windows of the bedroom . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The light poured in through the window of our room . |
| 13 | Lee remembered when a sparrow had flown in through the window of her bedroom when she was a child . |
| 14 | Tick crept in through the window of the dining-room and surprised Lady Laetitia Winthrop playing at her virginals ( a likely story ) . |
| 15 | He 'll end up running after her along the platform , bundling books and plaice and Government papers in through the window of the carriage at her as the train moves out … |
| 16 | But light was spilling in through the seams of the door at the far end of the room ; crimson , glowing light from whatever lay on the other side . |
| 17 | After leaving the station , we 'd just walk around for ten or fifteen minutes , doubling back on our tracks , heading in through the lobby of a big hotel and straight out again through the rear entrance , until finally we 'd come to some itty-bitty hotel in a back street with a desk in the hallway , and we 'd do the elevator routine . |
| 18 | Seventy five percent is taken in through the eyes of which we 're gon na recall about fifty percent , so fifty percent of that seventy five percent yeah ? |
| 19 | He was thin , and there appeared to be dark patches growing in through the grey of his beard . |
| 20 | Currents pass in through the sides of the shell , over the ciliated lophophore where the food is extracted , and then out through the depression in the margin of the valves . |
| 21 | She stood on the deck while the water rushed in through the sides of the great oaken gates , lifting the barge higher and higher until they were level with the water in the next basin . |
| 22 | Blanche Arbuthnot turned in through the gates of her old home . |
| 23 | Refusing the invitation to go in for coffee , Fran hurried back to the car and drove across town , only slowing when she turned in through the gates of the college and made her way along the rutted gravel path to pull up in front of the old sandstone building next to Luke 's car . |
| 24 | It occurs as that in Judges 9.9 and 13 , and here it might indicate nothing more than the all-embracing nature of the struggles which Jacob has engaged in during the course of his life . |
| 25 | He made it a rule that the work which flowed in during the course of the day had to be dealt with during that day , unless there was a very good reason . ’ |
| 26 | This meant that the men on each farm , with the addition of certain seasonal workers like the company of sheep-shearers , agreed with the farmer to bring in the harvest on ‘ piecework ’ — so much per acre of crops ; or perhaps they would contract to get the harvest in during the period of a month from the time they started ; or instead of a month some agreements would state Twenty Four Fine Days . |
| 27 | On June 22 Tokonye Kotelo , hitherto high commissioner in Kenya , was named as Minister of Foreign Affairs following the resignation of Capt. Pius Molapo ; on June 23 Chief Mohlalefi Bereng was sworn in as the Minister of Interior , Chieftaincy Affairs and Rural Development , replacing Kgotsi Matete ; three other Cabinet changes were made on June 29 . |
| 28 | I have been intreated during these weeks , cajoled , wheedled , almost caressed , tortured , threatened , brow-beaten and all but blackmailed to step in as the saviour of society . ’ |
| 29 | On Sept. 28 a new national army , the Angolan Armed Forces ( FAA ) , was established under the joint command of Gen. Antonio dos Santos França Ndalu and Gen. Arlindo Chenda Pena Ben-Ben who were sworn in as the Chiefs of General Staff on the same day . |
| 30 | McMahon robbed Speed just outside the City penalty area and a sharp counterattack ended with Quinn taking the ball wide of his marker , Whyte , and beating Lukic with a thunderous drive which went in off the underside of the crossbar . |