Example sentences of "[noun] be pouring [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Aliens in the new El Dorado Foreigners are pouring into Japan , hoping to make a quick million yen .
2 The horses started arriving this morning … the Irish were first in … they 're supporters are pouring in all week …
3 The black eyes were pouring through her , amused and oddly smouldering at the same time .
4 His eyes were pouring into her as his fingers lightly tilted her chin .
5 Random images were pouring into his mind .
6 The blood is pouring from his body , through the cracks in the table and onto the floor below .
7 And then the drawbridge was falling , with a clanking and a whirring of machinery and the light was pouring into the courtyard and the Gnomes were cheering and the giants were nodding to one another , and there was nothing for it but to ride away with Snodgrass , with Balor loping along at their side , with Fenella behind in the hands of the Gruagach .
8 His mouth was pouring with blood and his face was grey .
9 Carey had covered his face , but blood was pouring through his closed fingers .
10 Blood was pouring from him .
11 Blood was pouring from the side of the Doctor 's face .
12 Blood was pouring from th antique dealer 's chest .
13 But already a fresh wave of sepoys was pouring over the ramparts and bounding forward to the attack over that rubbery carpet of bodies .
14 Donations were pouring into the appeals office in the basement of Great Ormond Street at the rate of £2 million a month .
15 The sun was pouring into the courtyard and his brawny arms glistened with sweat .
16 Half an hour later Ruth was pouring with perspiration and her ankle ached warningly .
17 Gold miners armed with the new dredges are pouring into the Pakaraima and Upper Mazaruni Mountains , a rainforested area which is home to the Akawaio Indians .
18 If annual incidence is equal to annual outcidence ( water is pouring into the sink at the same rate as it is emptying ) , then annual prevalence remains at a stable , unchanging level ( the water level in the sink is constant ) .
19 Finally , if incidence falls below outcidence ( water is pouring into the sink at a slower rate than it is draining off ) , there will be a decrease in annual prevalence ( the water level in the sink drops ) .
20 Now move in a little closer , and your next shot might show just one corner of the square which we can now see includes an attractive little feature : an ancient water-trough into which a cascade of water is pouring from the mouth of a gargoyle-like creature in stone .
21 There was a stage at one end , where the fountains usually were , over which water was pouring in a frothing cataract .
22 One morning she put all her clothes on — 14 T-shirts , socks , a hat — the sweat was pouring off her . ’
23 Within a minute the sweat was pouring off him and his jacket sticking to his back .
24 The sweat was pouring from him when the ultimate moment arrived .
25 For many people in Britain , ethnic relations means immigration and the apparent belief that large numbers of people are pouring into the country and making it overcrowded .
26 Hardly had the dust settled on the bomb damage when ambitious plans for large-scale rebuilding were pouring off the drawing boards of architects and town planners .
27 By the time she overlooked the quayside , the decks were vibrating and black diesel smoke was pouring from the funnel .
28 And by now the strongest following are pouring into the ground and the area known as The Cage is almost solid .
29 Love was pouring through her and she could not stop it , lying beneath him , helpless to prevent the tears which sprung to her eyes and rolled over her cheeks .
30 A green liquid was pouring from his broken and battered body .
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