Example sentences of "in [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Breathing it in through the nose , the mouth . |
| 2 | However , the proposals , kicked out of the front door last year , are now coming in through the back . |
| 3 | That evening is I crouched at the back of the slit trench , swatting the mauses and listening to the sound of shells passing over and the rain dripping steadily in through the entrance to the trench , I stared at the pool of water getting larger and hoped that the rain would soon stop , if it does n't I 'm in for an uncomfortable night . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The architects , Derek Irvine Associates , were obliged to locate the main ‘ public ’ staircase at the centre of the plan with light flooding in through the roof-light which straddles the roof ridge above , because the considerable width of the building — 11.4m ( 37ft ) — necessitated some means of introducing light into the middle if gloomy internal corridors were to be avoided . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | McLeish stopped at the door of the interview room and looked in through the spy-hole , wanting to get some feel for the evidently hostile and , by all accounts , neurotic Penelope Huntley . |
| 8 | Philip jumped up to see if he could get a look in through the window . |
| 9 | Lee went out of the hide , letting rain in through the opening . |
| 10 | Dot took a chance peek in through the crack between where the two doors met . |
| 11 | Dot peered in through the tiny curtained windows of the dolls ' house and saw quiet furnished rooms , the playroom , kitchen , parlour , waiting to be lived in , a table set for tea , beds to be slept in , armchairs to be sat on . |
| 12 | Loopy Lil blew in through the side door like a bundle of old rags with tiny crystals of white on her woollen hood . |
| 13 | A baffled ox has horned in through the wall . |
| 14 | Simon was standing , looking in through the serving-hatch . |
| 15 | Next I 'll see his white hand , sliding in through the serving hatch . |
| 16 | Somebody 'd broke in , got in through the bedroom winder . |
| 17 | The tide was rising : it came filtering gently in through the salt-marsh vegetation , washing up the beach and receding , leaving ribbons of foam along the sand . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This must be him just coming in through the side door . |
| 20 | Coming in through the door |
| 21 | As Major Pond discovered , seat-holders were let in through side doors while hoi polloi had to come in through the front in the hope of getting what they could . |
| 22 | In analysing the information that comes in through the eyes , the brain works ‘ bottom up ’ , piecing together the information from individual retinal cells into larger wholes , and ‘ top down ’ , comparing pre-existing models in the brain with the visual input . |
| 23 | She skipped out of the way as the broom flicked itself busily in through the door . |
| 24 | However we were relieved ( though not as much as he ) to see his face , grinning inanely , as he climbed back in through the window . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He gave it a few pumps and collected an armful of logs for the stove before going in through the back door . |
| 28 | The DHAC and NILP supporters sought to get back into the chamber ; finding the doors locked , they got in through the mayor 's parlour and were joined in the gallery by Alderman Hegarty and Councillor Friel . |
| 29 | The florist was closed , and they 'd put the fresh stock away , so that when Boy looked in through the first window the flowers he saw were of silk ; all artificial , but so good that they were better and fresher than the real thing , and certainly more expensive . |
| 30 | 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 . |