Example sentences of "[pron] came in [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't intended to speak on the external affairs section , but the discussion had widened so much that I came in with the attached remarks . |
| 2 | I could relive it every time I came in through the front door . |
| 3 | There was a layer of grey-blue smoke in the room at about shoulder level , and a big wave in it , probably produced by me as I came in through the double doors of the back porch . |
| 4 | Well as you know er to be a basic rate taxpayer , you 're paying twenty five pence in the pound , apart from the er the new rate you know the first two thousand five hundred you get at twenty percent , which came in at the last budget . |
| 5 | A fair number of final bids which came in under the reserve price were later accepted . |
| 6 | Devon and Cornwall 's canals connected agricultural areas with the goods they needed which came in through the many small ports . |
| 7 | good recruiting period and we had er thirty o thirty one I think it was or thirty four new members who came in at the general election . |
| 8 | The ceremony was in the hands of Mr Alexander Dubcek , who came in from the political cold less than 24 hours before , to be elected head of the new-style Federal Assembly . |
| 9 | I admire several of John le Carré 's novels , particularly The Spy Who Came in From the Cold and The Perfect Spy , and I like the tension and clever plotting upon which the spy novel depends . |
| 10 | You saw in fact the lady as you came in about the same time as you came in who does that . |
| 11 | He left Helen and went to have a bath and in the cold steamy bathroom there came to him this vision of a distant unreal Helen looking — well , radiant was the unexpected word that came to mind — looking not her usual self at all in some frock that glowed and billowed and rustled as she came in at the front door late , pink-cheeked , a touch dishevelled and greeted by the stone wall of Dorothy 's disapproval . |
| 12 | When she came in for the second time her throat was like looking at a plate full of strawberries and cream — red enlarged tonsils with a coating of puss . |
| 13 | He came in through the back door on Lily 's afternoon out . |
| 14 | Seve Ballesteros , who had shared the overnight lead on 67 , was making no further progress and was still five under par as he came in on the closing holes . |
| 15 | The problems do n't end there ; Kingsley Black had one of his best games for Northern Ireland in Tirana , when he came in for the injured Michael Hughes . |