Example sentences of "[adv] come in [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Sorry , I run a health spa in Scotland and I see an awful lot of women who obviously come in for some slight improvement but quite frankly it is the stress factor that shows in the face that does n't make them quite so beautiful because their personalities comes across for when their stressed it shows in their face and I notice when they leave only after a few days the stress has gone and their personality shines through and their far more beautiful .
2 The society 's charitable project soon got round the underworld , and in January 1773 they had a card hung in Westminster Jail stating that their charity was likely to be imposed upon ‘ by artful and designing villains who cause themselves to be arrested and imprisoned a day before the Society makes a distribution and thus come in for relief designed for the Poor distressed debtors imprisoned for a long time . ‘
3 But even that may not help as the worker may be waylaid by those who have ‘ just come in for a form ’ or an address or have to collect their children from school in five minutes .
4 He had just come in from sketching workmen out on the Geest , where they were laying water and gas pipes .
5 Have you just come in from school .
6 Sister said , ‘ Do n't ask me why things always come in in triplicate .
7 Nowadays a flight of fifteen minutes in an ‘ Islander ’ aircraft makes life a lot easier for sufferers from mal-de-mer — visitors and islanders alike — although all heavy supplies still come in by sea .
8 If an inner-city supplies free art galleries , financed out of taxes on inner-city inhabitants , the rich still come in from the suburbs to make use of these facilities .
9 They usually come in until the day they have their baby , and most come back again very early , as soon as two weeks .
10 The Victorians also come in for considerable attention , some of it with a feminist slant , while , not surprisingly perhaps , Latin America still seems to be chic .
11 But you see now come in for dinner after my dinner
12 I mean , Joan said well ma , you know make the numbers up , once you 're here come in on the second .
13 I even come in to her one day to see if she had a bar of chocolate .
14 But quite clearly this is a more expensive use of beds in residential establishments , when people simply come in for a matter of days or week or two weeks , rather than coming in on a permanent basis .
15 Then come in to your meal . ’
16 Those carmen are sittin' outside the wharves fer hours on end at times , an' they like ter come in fer a mug o' tea an' a chat .
17 They never come in without their , screaming their damned heads off do they ?
18 Never come in from the cold and toast by a hot fire .
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