Example sentences of "in [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got in through a half-closed larder window . |
| 2 | Then , to me : ‘ We went to Orkney last summer , and she made me crawl in through a ghastly tunnel into some underground charnel-house . |
| 3 | ‘ I had help getting in here , ’ Hari said quickly , ‘ I did n't get in through a bolted door on my own now , did I ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I tried the bell at the front , ’ Pete said as they went in through a whitewashed scullery . |
| 5 | ‘ My housekeeper will know where the first-aid equipment is , ’ he clipped , and piloted her through a passageway , and in through a solid wooden door . |
| 6 | The sunshine was pouring in through a high window on the right , warming a square of the dark red polished floor and making the rest of the room look gloomy by comparison . |
| 7 | Gooch played the shot of a weary man , completely foxed by a slower ball from Manoj Prabhakar that drifted in through a large gap between bat and pad . |
| 8 | But on the night of January 1st , thieves crept in through a back door and took £30,000 worth of family heirlooms , including two trophies won by the stud farm nearly a century ago : |
| 9 | He was disturbed when his 2 attackers crashed in through a back door . |
| 10 | The thieves , who broke in through a back door , also stole a 24in gold link chain , a gold bracelet and a JVC video recorder . |
| 11 | ‘ Mind this patch , it 's slippery , ’ Weasel warned as he traversed a landing where snow had drifted in through a broken skylight . |
| 12 | Jay Disley was spotted by the police looking in through a broken window and his accomplice Simon Brooklyn was found in the kitchen of the house in Berrybank Crescent . |
| 13 | Austin , Texas-based Dell Computer Corp keeps them coming — yesterday added seven new 80486-based Dimension personal computers at from $1,400 including colour monitor and enhanced graphics built in through an integrated local bus video system : the systems also include 4Mb , 170Mb disk , 3.5 ’ and 5.25 ’ floppies , 512Kb video RAM MS-DOS 6.0 and Windows 3.1 installed , and mouse . |
| 14 | She was n't one of these poor deprived kids who slipped in through an open window or an inadequately locked door and then did not know better than to steal a television or a video . |
| 15 | The Anti-Rex crawled down the wall of the Butcher Building and in through an open window . |
| 16 | Instead officers climbed in through an open window and arrested Mr Bellamy . |
| 17 | Jewellery worth £450 was taken after a thief got in through an open window . |
| 18 | It turned out to have come in through the curved zip which is unprotected by a weather flap . |
| 19 | Although there is no speaker grille or cloth for protection , the cone does sit some six inches back from the front of the cab , so you would have to be very unlucky for anything to poke that far in through the narrow slot to do any damage . |
| 20 | The rear window of one of the shops looked out over poor Mary 's deposited remains and Martin had to go in through the narrow entrance to flash his lamp on it . |
| 21 | yes , yes , that 's why it tells us in verse twenty four of Luke thirteen ex exert yourself vigorously to get in through the narrow door |
| 22 | Seven or eight thousand figures had taken up position kneeling on prayer carpets , so that as you walked in through the great red-stone gate you were confronted by rank upon rank of white-clad backs topped with brightly coloured turbans or embroidered mosque-caps . |
| 23 | But Marc 's business in the stable must have only taken a minute because he was coming in through the great oak doors even before she reached the foot of the stairs . |
| 24 | On the other hand , two crews decided to run beyond the jetty and get in through the low reeds beyond a willow tree at then end of the jetty . |
| 25 | A heavy south easterly swell rolling in through the wide sounds to the north of Bressay threw Venturous on her beam ends several times , so much so that fuel oil spilled over through the deck breather pipes . |
| 26 | Carefully she turned in through the wide hospital gates . |
| 27 | Yeah I mean me I it may be inappropriate at this moment in time to say we will do it now because of obvious reasons but prior to the recession it was an ongoing thing that the the board were in through the general manager were actually writing to many companies . |
| 28 | It was a slow , infuriating process , and as A roads gave way to B and Robyn neared her destination already two hours late , the slowly darkening skies became as black and as desperate as Robyn 's frame of mind , until the heavens opened and it started to pour — not reasonable , perfectly acceptable drops of rain from a warm July sky , but pounding , penetrating torrents that battered and bounced off the roof of the jeep and seeped in through the ill-fitting windows . |
| 29 | He thought of telling her that he was a friend but friends did n't dive in through the front door ; they did n't have blood on their wrists nor cuts all over their faces ; they did n't have a rope burn round their necks and they wore shirts , at least until they were properly introduced . |
| 30 | I was welcomed in through the front door almost before it was opened , and settled down in front of a Victorian stove that was brimming with hot coals . |