Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] 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 | Koreans flooded in from the new colony in search of work and livelihood . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | During these periods , the great tides sweeping in from the Atlantic would first feel the initial restriction of the Bristol Channel . |
| 6 | Every now and then , one of the tall waves thundering in from the open ocean carries within it a dark sinister presence . |
| 7 | One example of this is on page 156 when Scout and Jem have discovered that Atticus is sitting outside the county Jail on one of his office chairs and as they cross the square to get nearer to him , four dusty cars come in from the Meridian highway , moving slowly in a line eventually stopping outside the Jail . |
| 8 | Bolton-born Bannister , who dwarfs influential team-mate Alton Byrd by 19 inches , is so huge he gets all his clothes and shoes shipped in from the States by mail order . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Trim back fuchsias brought in from the garden and pot them up in a peat and sand mixture . |
| 12 | She could tell she was going to get no response from Coffin , although he was being polite , when a crowd of youngsters swarmed in from the local youth club . |
| 13 | Some of the working- and lower-middle-class people who made up the bulk of the urban populace had relatives in the villages , but transport to and from the countryside was erratic and there was always the danger that food-parcels sent in from the villages would be intercepted and confiscated . |
| 14 | Winters are cold , with biting winds sweeping in from the Hungarian plain . |
| 15 | The cemetery had emptied of people , the cold winds swept in from the sea and the still bare branches of the trees shivered like thin fingers against the dark sky . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | However , it became established at Woodford and through Warner 's generosity offshoots were distributed , as were many other rarities raised by him from seeds brought in from the Far East . |
| 18 | There are so many historical sights to take in from the ancient temples , the Valley of the Kings on the West Bank to the High Dam at Aswan . |
| 19 | Swanage suffered badly during the last war , chiefly from ‘ tip-and-run ’ raids by bombers swooping in from the sea . |
| 20 | Enemy searchlights probed in from the sea , going out before a renewed burst of shelling and heavy machine-gun fire added to civilian casualties in the town . |
| 21 | The smell was terrible , despite the fresh breezes wafting in from the river . |
| 22 | Policemen marshall grumbling queues whenever a load of bread or chickens jolts in from the country . |
| 23 | Business was brisk , shopkeepers even running out to grab Corbett by the arm and offer a pie , a piece of cloth , fresh fish from the Firth , almonds , nuts and raisins brought in from the nearby port of Leith . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In winter , when the storms bluster in from the Mediterranean and the valleys glow green , the cloud comes down and Beaufort simply disappears . |
| 26 | Garlands of flowers and greenery have always been traditionally associated with May festivities , being used to decorate the trees brought in from the woods . |
| 27 | When this happens it is time to celebrate and consider all the various offers raining in from the major labels . |
| 28 | EPRDF forces moving in from the west began to reach the suburbs of Addis Ababa on the weekend of May 25-26 . |
| 29 | A still , small voice inside him murmured ‘ this is all too easy ’ , but offers flooded in from the combines , the multi-nationals , the companies who had profited from the rape of the Earth , and who were now taking their ecological molestation into space . |
| 30 | Commodities which travelled in the opposite direction were salt , which came by sea from Cyprus , the Greek islands and Albania , and which was distributed by means of pack animals to Bosnia and Serbia ; and cereals brought in from the Aegean , Cyprus , Asia Minor and Sicily , and used mainly for local consumption . |