Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] come in [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British Rail comes in for a fair bit of stick from travellers who would heartily support the loud speaker announcement heard by Philip White . |
| 2 | There are two periods of Romanesque in Spain : the basic Spanish product , of buildings erected before the great southward expansion in the late eleventh century and a transitional style of Late Romanesque of twelfth and thirteenth century work , resulting both from this expansion and from the French influence coming in from the north-east . |
| 3 | The unsmiling housekeeper came in with the tea things . |
| 4 | The inrush of fresh air came in through the room , circulated , inter mixed with the vapour laden air in the lounge . |
| 5 | One day a German officer came in to the camp to supervise work that was being done on some primitive drains by Polish forced labour . |
| 6 | ‘ Six months later , comprehensive education comes in in the county of Swessex . |
| 7 | A little breeze came in through the open window and set the hanging light swinging , so that her face was now shadowed , now glistening pale in the electric glare . |
| 8 | Every September we have the small ad hoc Cabinet committee known as the ‘ Star Chamber ’ [ MISC 62 ] in which Lord Whitelaw sits down and tries to bang heads together , and then the Prime Minister comes in at the last minute and bangs heads together even more . |
| 9 | The Senior Medical Officer came in with the Thoracic Registrar . |
| 10 | In a moment , the freckled landlady came in with the morning bacon , greeting us in the slightly questioning accent typical of Sligo . |
| 11 | Her face was a white blur under the dark cloak and hood she wore as protection against the fierce wind coming in off the sea . |
| 12 | Again , the light level was subterranean , but there were no curtains so a fair amount of yellow light came in from the streetlamps outside . |
| 13 | Elise Fox was a woman who prided herself on her ability to deal with crisis , but at eleven o'clock that Saturday night she still lay limp on the sofa in the flat , looking utterly shattered when her young sister came in from the kitchen with yet another pot of strong black coffee . |
| 14 | And the star of the show … the Russian Bear comes in from the cold . |
| 15 | I inspected the room in the faint light coming in around the shutters . |
| 16 | So one day , very hot and insecty , with a faint breeze coming in off the sea , we were all lying in the grass on the flat area just to the south of the house . |
| 17 | But perhaps those three are the ones you 'll , if it was a new person coming in to the job you 'd concentrate on that would n't you ? |
| 18 | In the main gatehouse tower on the first stack , Moray was asking of the guard-captain whether the Countess was at home when the door from the first of the bridge-corridors was flung open and a young woman came in at the run , hair blown , laughing-eyed , skirts kilted up the better to run , fine bosom tumultuous — as unusual a Countess of Dunbar and March as was the castle of which she was chatelaine . |
| 19 | A young woman came in from the booking-hall trailed by a ragged child , its legs pocked with the marks of vermin . |
| 20 | By 1971 , hair had grown to collar length and the final phase came in as the smooth . |
| 21 | Nothing but bad news came in from every frontier . |