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Example sentences of "in [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	She came in through the corridor , shuffling in her thick black clothes .
2	He parked his car and walked in through the yard .
3	She came in through the yard door , and from the moment he saw her , Dauntless could tell she was a sorceress of deftness and strength .
4	Ronnie must have come in through the yard door without her knowing …
5	The birds , when they come shooting in through the darkness , seldom land exactly beside their nest hole .
6	I walked in through the door and , feeling a bit lost , I asked the first person I saw if he knew whether the Social Secretary was around .
7	Coming in through the door
8	She skipped out of the way as the broom flicked itself busily in through the door .
9	people criticise this style and say it 's all a lie , they take one quick look in through the door and they say that we are all acting madly to conceal some great sadness from ourselves .
10	As we walked in through the door Kalchu looked up from his food and said in a worried voice , ‘ Where 's your karaso , sister ? ’
11	The man whom Sergeant Bird ushered in through the door seemed to be buckling at the knees , and his Adam 's apple jerked furiously in his throat as he swallowed time and again .
12	Now , new offices were being built for it on the other side of the road , but they were not quite ready , and meantime , the new publisher from the East and his editors functioned in an atmosphere of such utter confusion that it is doubtful if an efficiency expert could even have fought his way in through the door .
13	A phosphorus grenade rolled in through the door , and everyone dived for cover .
14	Moments later there was an almighty crash and a head flew in through the door of the hangar and bounced across the floor .
15	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 .
16	Spittals ' hands glowed from the diligent rubbing he was applying to them as she came in through the door at ten o'clock .
17	Beyond them , just coming in through the door , she saw Pascoe .
18	You never know what 's just coming in through the door . ’
19	Just coming in through the door at that very minute was Detective-Constable Edwards .
20	There were no windows and only a trickle of light came in through the door behind him .
21	As the second show was coming to an end , Lucy sat herself in the makeup chair and made a sullen face and checked her watch frequently , with the idea that Josie should catch her doing it as she finally came in through the door .
22	When the last penitent left I strolled to the back of the chapel and was surprised to see three young contra soldiers gazing rather wistfully in through the door — as if they felt unworthy to set foot inside .
23	It was a great relief to him when she stumbled in through the door in a flurry of snow and he set to and made a cup of tea to warm her .
24	Then he hesitated because he had left it too late and he was concerned that Tom would walk in through the door again at any minute .
25	Er but in certainly in the case of our bank , er we are most anxious to at least get people in through the door and see if we can find solutions to their problems , find ways of er developing smaller businesses , erm hopefully to reduce the massive unemployment figure that we have in this country .
26	Reading , yeah you look round at people and then somebody comes rushing in through the door and you 've never seen then before , what do you do ?
27	He grins defiantly as Eva sweeps in through the door .
28	‘ I came in through the door . ’
29	Tamsin bursts in through the door .
30	Erm , but we are n't going to the sort of , end of degree , that er , I say this , and then you sort of enter stage left and say this , and I respond like this , and then erm , something else happens , and then somebody comes crashing in through the door .