Example sentences of "in [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Rain now poured in through the broken window , the wind also whipping through , buffeting Julie as she moved across to the back door . |
| 32 | She had been waiting on Dreadnought to watch the water coming in through the main leak . |
| 33 | She turned as two uniformed policemen came in through the main entrance . |
| 34 | He went in through the plain mahogany door , and stopped . |
| 35 | He gave it a few pumps and collected an armful of logs for the stove before going in through the back door . |
| 36 | Then , whilst resolutely throwing underconsumption out of the window he allows it to creep in through the back door again with his discursive discussion of the role of labour-power as a commodity and its place in the circulation process . |
| 37 | He looked up when Donna Frizzell came in through the back door , and was startled to see that her hat was awry and her makeup smudged beyond repair . |
| 38 | Hank drifted silently in through the back door and deposited a pile of school books on the kitchen table and a fair amount of snow on the kitchen floor from his moccasins . |
| 39 | He came in through the back door on Lily 's afternoon out . |
| 40 | So off we went out and we played our football , and I came back , and we were sneaking in through the back door and bumped right into him . |
| 41 | He used another of his plastic cards to let himself in through the back door . |
| 42 | ‘ Did you see him come in through the back door ? ’ |
| 43 | I remember hens , large grey ones , wandering in through the back door . |
| 44 | The next morning , without seeing any of the family , who were heaven knew where , she made herself some breakfast under the smiling gaze of Rose or Mary — she did n't know which — and before she could get into a worry as to whether Feargal had meant his offer to take her to Carlingford he walked in through the back door . |
| 45 | Scrambling to her feet , Ellie ran after the racing Terry , down the stairs , out the back door , across the grounds and in through the back door of the restaurant . |
| 46 | It is almost as if someone has allowed subsidiarity in through the back door of the Town Hall , but not announced its arrival to anyone . |
| 47 | Her father came in through the back door . |
| 48 | At the Conservative Party conference in October 1988 Mrs Thatcher stated : ‘ We have n't worked all these years to free Britain from the paralysis of socialism only to see it creep in through the back door of central control and bureaucracy from Brussels ’ . |
| 49 | So I expect somebody 's been and er the er the door thing , you can get in the back way and in through the back door . |
| 50 | I thought we were going to have a visitor coming in through the back door . |
| 51 | There was an arched cartway into the yard , and a narrow wicket let them in through the thick oak portal to the cobbled court , ringed round with stables and storehouses . |
| 52 | At eight a.m. it was pouring with rain , and very cold , as the partners of Yeo Davis straggled in through the neat entrance , their footsteps echoing on the tiles . |
| 53 | I went after them and in through the huge door . |
| 54 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | The hours passed , daylight faded , and the sounds of a warm September evening came in through the open window . |
| 57 | The scents of the garden , blowing in through the open window , had removed the last trace of stuffiness from the room . |
| 58 | The wind , being drawn in through the open window , lifted the fibrous material on the top of my head so the Sun could heal the brick-shaped gash . |
| 59 | come in through the open window , rape her , |
| 60 | A little breeze came in through the open window and set the hanging light swinging , so that her face was now shadowed , now glistening pale in the electric glare . |