Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] in through " in BNC.
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| 1 | When two police cars raced in through the school gates she hid behind a wall . |
| 2 | When Rosalind and Philip first moved in , it was in a pretty parlous condition , with , amongst other nightmares , an elder tree with its roots in the great hall and its branches spreading in through the windows . |
| 3 | There was the sound of running feet outside and the gate guards piled in through the crack . |
| 4 | Some knowledge of Western scientific advances seeped in through ‘ Dutch scholars ’ based at Nagasaki . |
| 5 | So there were two lower exchequers of receipt , in Westminster and in Oxford , during the years 1643–6 , although a large proportion of Parliament 's revenues came in through various ad hoc treasuries in the City of London , bypassing the Exchequer altogether . |
| 6 | Look forgive me and were the first of the two troops going in through that door . |
| 7 | Then he put his arm round her and his wife wo n't curtsy , she 's Dutch , the Dutch are just as bad as anybody now , just lately , I mean lot of these terrorists get in through Holland do n't they ? |
| 8 | A single-glazed window has a ‘ cold zone ’ around it where you 'll get convection draughts ( as well as the draughts coming in through the gaps ) . |
| 9 | As he did so , the three fire tenders roared in through the newly created gap . |
| 10 | The tiny river sounds came in through the open hatches . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , the country was being flooded with rifles run in through French Somaliland with the connivance of French officials . |
| 12 | Instead officers climbed in through an open window and arrested Mr Bellamy . |
| 13 | The seventy seven year old collapsed after five police officers clambered in through the window to arrest her grandson . |
| 14 | Goods brought in through the Port of London were widely distributed by way of the River Thames and the Grand Union Canal which linked to the Midlands . |
| 15 | As one would expect , the majority of the sentenced prisoners coming in through the gates had received short terms , but 121 ( 13 per cent ) had been admitted to serve sentences over five years and 84 of these had received life imprisonment for murder . |
| 16 | Two pairs went in through windows , taking the glass and the frames as they went , came to their feet without a pause , and headed straight upstairs to the bedrooms . |
| 17 | Attempts to squeeze in through too small openings inevitably result in Laurel and Hardy-style disasters — try taking a 3m panel into the Barbican in London ! |
| 18 | He was disturbed when his 2 attackers crashed in through a back door . |
| 19 | Bees fly in through the windows on hot afternoons , zig-zag across the house , and disappear through the open front door . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The smell of the flowers came in through the open windows of the bus . |
| 22 | Ten thousand couples joined in through a TVlink-up with five other countries . |
| 23 | One had its ribs kicked in through its lungs … leastways that wuz his opinion of how it prob'ly happened . |
| 24 | The pump is connected through the outer tray and draws water in through the gravel or charcoal , and then through the filter elements into the pump for discharge as a fountain or waterfall . |
| 25 | Behind him , three more gipsies crowded in through the doorway . |
| 26 | And , by Royal Appointment … the Russian swans fly in through the fog . |
| 27 | In addition to the students coming in through the normal channels , two non-uniform routes have emerged during the eighties . |
| 28 | Two men in shirt sleeves stroll in through *e open door . |
| 29 | 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 : |
| 30 | Sgt Steve Atkinson said thieves walk in through unlocked back doors and snatch whatever they can . |