Example sentences of "come in [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as if on cue , reports have just come in of tracks and sightings of live rhinos in two Sumatran reserves — Way Kambas and Berbak Game Reserve in Jambi — where they were believed extinct . |
| 2 | There were reports of other attacks to the north and west , but still no word had come in of Lionan or Mullach , and Murtach 's patrol had not sighted them . |
| 3 | We turned our ponies and galloped back to the Legation , where we learnt that news had just come in of a great victory for the Shoan army . |
| 4 | He was n't expecting much to have come in during his absence but if nothing else there should be something from the foreign residents department at the Questura . |
| 5 | ‘ Is she of a good family , like Mercy ? ’ asked his surprised mother , who had come in during the conversation . |
| 6 | It turned out to have come in through the curved zip which is unprotected by a weather flap . |
| 7 | Ronnie must have come in through the yard door without her knowing … |
| 8 | What 's happened is , of course , that as the costs have fallen and the micros have come in through the door so they 're very much smaller , erm it all becomes possible for the whole of society and not for a tiny elite . |
| 9 | Probably the paper did n't even have wire service , and if it did , he 'd bet a dime that anything which had come in about the book 's author had simply been buried in the chaos then reigning in the newspaper office . |
| 10 | More than 50 orphaned or injured otters from all over Britain have come in to the trust 's rehabilitation centre in south-west Scotland . |
| 11 | Tab the tinker , who had come in to be shriven , had agreed to fashion a coffin of sorts out of thin planks of wood . |
| 12 | This beggar had come in to the fitting shop , corner at the back corner , where he should n't have been . |
| 13 | Labour Members say that they want to have a debate , yet because they have been discomfited in other debates they have come in to the Chamber to start shouting and jeering . |
| 14 | The biologists and the applied scientists have done this , have offered lectures to school children , mostly in response to requests that have come in to them for specific lectures . |
| 15 | But that policy has come in for sharp criticism from monetarists who insist that it has fed the rapid expansion of broad money supply , M4 , and inflamed inflationary pressures . |
| 16 | A spate of airline buyouts , which has touched every major US carrier during the last six months , has come in for growing criticism because of the heavy debt it loads on the companies . |
| 17 | Mr Gonzalez has also come in for criticism from within his own party . |
| 18 | Mr Gonzalez has also come in for criticism from within his own party . |
| 19 | Defence policy , too , has come in for complaint . |
| 20 | If the literary establishment had thought to compare notes they would have realized that every male aura on and off Fleet Street had come in for a bashing . |
| 21 | Understandably , this presumption has come in for a great deal of criticism . |
| 22 | The successful receptionist models could be used to devise special training to enable CAB receptionists to ascertain the depth of a problem ; they could serve the dual function of assessing which clients have just come in for a form or a local address and they could make appointments for others in person or by telephone and smooth the queue . |
| 23 | However , the Green Paper has come in for a variety of criticisms and there is little evidence that its recommendations will be acted upon in the short- or medium-term . |
| 24 | He had come in for a book of stamps , and when he had got it he joined Breeze , who was waiting on the Green . |
| 25 | Dates have just come in for a series of Ovation guitar clinics , with Ian Aitken : Wed Oct 14th , Picton Music , Swansea ; Thu 15th , Cranes Music , Cardiff ; Mon 26th , Oasis Music , Ringwood , Hants ; Tues 27th , Soundpad , Barnstaple ; Thu 29th , Avalon Music , Sevenoaks ; Wed 11th Nov , Music Inn , Nottingham ; Thu 12th , Musical Exchange , Birmingham ; Fri 13th , Foulds of Derby ; Wed 18th , Rose Morris Music Store , London . |
| 26 | PORTSMOUTH striker Guy Whittingham took his tally for the season to 27 and then said : ‘ I do n't know why bigger clubs have not come in for me . ’ |
| 27 | It is on the detail of the recommendations that Cadbury has come in for strong criticism — in particular , over some of the recommendations in the code ( see also this issue , p 24 ) . |
| 28 | JACQUES Delors has come in for a lot of flak for the collapse of the Gatt world trade talks . |
| 29 | I ca n't believe nobody has come in for him . |
| 30 | She sat at the table and painstakingly wrote down the sums of money that should have come in for the work already done . |