Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] in from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many gardeners believe that an informal pool should be planted liberally , with waterlilies obscuring areas of the water surface , and reeds and rushes tumbling in from the garden . |
| 2 | Initially , he had much sympathy from the British trade union movement , funds pouring in from the mainland , including almost £pound94,000 collected by the Trades Union Congress . |
| 3 | Since the 1920's Berlin has been a city encountered through images : Doblin , Pabst and Isherwood ; the diabolic glamour of Nazism ; Year Zero ; the Airlift ; John Kennedy and spies coming in from the cold ; the generation of " 68 , the stylized desperation of the punk underground , and angels made corporeal . |
| 4 | During these periods , the great tides sweeping in from the Atlantic would first feel the initial restriction of the Bristol Channel . |
| 5 | Every now and then , one of the tall waves thundering in from the open ocean carries within it a dark sinister presence . |
| 6 | And it 'll be a cool afternoon , temperatures around nine degrees celsius , that 's forty eight fahrenheit , with light winds coming in from the east . |
| 7 | He watched Maggie bump the tall girl with her hip , then add , ‘ There 's a gang of parched Arabs coming in from the desert ; see to them . ’ |
| 8 | Winters are cold , with biting winds sweeping in from the Hungarian plain . |
| 9 | Corbett bowed respectfully and , pushing by the labourers and other villeins coming in from the fields to break their fasts , went out of the Galilee Gate , across the track and into the woods . |
| 10 | Swanage suffered badly during the last war , chiefly from ‘ tip-and-run ’ raids by bombers swooping in from the sea . |
| 11 | The smell was terrible , despite the fresh breezes wafting in from the river . |
| 12 | Erm and we find in the office that we get lots of forms coming in from the Paymaster General asking us to confirm that mister X is employed you know on a on a part time basis . |
| 13 | When this happens it is time to celebrate and consider all the various offers raining in from the major labels . |
| 14 | EPRDF forces moving in from the west began to reach the suburbs of Addis Ababa on the weekend of May 25-26 . |
| 15 | The eastern states say they badly need an extra 4,500 judges , 1,000 state prosecutors and 1,300 lawyers — not least to deal with the hundreds of thousands of property claims flooding in from the west . |
| 16 | As evening approached , Alec stood at the top of the steps , hair blowing wildly in the wind , watching the heavy black storm clouds moving in from the Atlantic . |
| 17 | The stain lightened slowly to reveal lowering clouds moving in from the north ; the sea became less ink-like too , and showed itself as a mess of enormous and ever-moving swells picked out here and there by off-white skeins of spray . |
| 18 | There was always complaints coming in from the people who lived in the area about the gangs making a noise on the corner . |
| 19 | I have an army of women coming in from the village to do all that . |
| 20 | When it came to practice , the weather was appalling , with low clouds streaming in from the sea and rain falling constantly . |
| 21 | The likeliest explanation is that Greek settlers moving in from the south gradually came to dominate the many hill tribes of the region — much as , a little later , Chinese moving into what is now Vietnam came to dominate the local tribes there . |
| 22 | As transport costs rose and London 's reputation for violence after dark grew , business was increasingly dependent on coachloads of theatregoers coming in from the provinces . |