Example sentences of "come in [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we asked who had won , we were told it was a pet dog called , but her owner , , would love to come in her place . |
| 2 | Jane knew from bitter experience that love is a rare thing , so she felt very strongly that nothing should be allowed to come in its way , that nobody should be condemned to endure the rest of life with those two small , sad words : ‘ if only … . ’ |
| 3 | In his more pessimistic moments some rogue part of his mind knew this darkness to be inevitable , although he did not expect it to come in his time , maybe not even in his son 's . |
| 4 | Never went hungry , no my mother always have a good , always used to have a good table , very good , we were a very lucky family , anybody used to come in our house on a weekend they always thought there was a party every weekend . |
| 5 | They all came down and used to come in our rooms and all sorts of other and I met some very ni and of course , all nationalities , you see and no matter what they were , well of course Cambridge has always been noted for different nationalities , has n't it ? |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd like to come in your mouth , and watch you swallow it . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The cheque 's in the post , I love you and I promise not to come in your mouth , ’ Porter added . |
| 8 | That most glamorous of all the angels of the hearth , who had come in her little pillbox hat to preside over the purest and most gracious of all houses , the White House . |
| 9 | To Grasmere , then , they had come in their own kind of innocence and plunged straight into a storm . |
| 10 | Although far from the dust and heat of India , the Sikhs had come in their thousands , roosting like exotic birds on the chimney-pots and the concrete of Southall . |
| 11 | That had been their perfect existence before the empire builders had come in their tall ships . |
| 12 | But there is also a vociferous minority that sees the paper as ‘ unrealistic ’ , ‘ impractical ’ and ‘ an overreaction ’ to pressures brought on by the recession and the corporate collapses that have come in its wake . |
| 13 | He 's come in his chair . |
| 14 | But the main reason was that I wanted to explain how far I felt we had come in our understanding of the universe : how we might be near finding a complete theory that would describe the universe and everything in it . |
| 15 | I tried to say , ‘ I 've come in your caddie 's place ’ , but I could n't get it all out . |
| 16 | And the chief direction has come in your century — in your heroic century ! — from poets and novelists . |
| 17 | What if the Mamur Zapt had come in your absence ? ’ |
| 18 | If they did n't get a move on , I would miss my gig and lose vital cash — as I had n't come in my own car , I was stranded . |
| 19 | That 's what Roy done , you know why , he come into my house and I goes you better not come in my door he 'll attack you . |
| 20 | The epitaph on the tombstone of a man of seventy-four , buried at East Tytherley , cites Job : ‘ Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age , like as a shock of corn cometh in his season . ’ |
| 21 | Eventually when the letter came in its blue envelope with the pious SAG printed across the seal , the hands so firm holding a gun or tool shook as he took it . |
| 22 | The Leviathan was a ruthless and cruel creature , with ‘ a heart as hard as a millstone ’ , and it destroyed anything which came in its path . |
| 23 | A void , an infinite void , came in its stead . ’ |
| 24 | A rather unpleasant and damp flog came in its place . |
| 25 | [ Philip Leapor ] informs me she was always fond of reading every thing that came in her way , as soon as she was capable of it ; and that when she and learnt to write tolerably , which , as he remembers , was at about ten or eleven Years old , She would often be scribbling , and sometimes in Rhyme ; which her Mother was at first pleas 'd with : But finding this Humour increase upon her as she grew up , when she thought her capable of more profitable Employment , she endeavour 'd to break her of it ; and that he likewise , having no Taste for Poetry , and not imagining it could ever be any Advantage to her , join 'd in the same Design : But finding it impossible to alter her natural Inclination , he had of late desisted , and left her more at Liberty |
| 26 | I grasped her hair with both hands , binding her head against my loins while I came in her mouth , loudly and at some length . |
| 27 | The two men took liberal helpings but Ruth put her hand over the top of her glass when the flask came in her direction . |
| 28 | The first sign that Harriet had not lost her wild instincts came in her third year , when she left the house and started to go off hunting at night . |
| 29 | The Dawn Maiden came in her silver boat , skimming over the waves . |
| 30 | The sister came in her evening blue . |