Example sentences of "[pers pn] come into the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's his age that is against him , but he 's helped me a great deal since I came into the Irish squad . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I came into the first form of his boarding school . |
| 3 | It was only 5.30 pm when I came into the main hospital building , but a cheeky nurse said ‘ Bon soir , Miss Veness , parlez-vous Francaise ? |
| 4 | I mean , I keep hearing that when I come into the environmental health department , that , just that people are interested in what Oxford are doing . |
| 5 | But one morning she came into the bare-looking garden to say , ‘ We 're going on Sunday . ’ |
| 6 | She came into the cobbled yard in front of the coach house walking carefully in her high-heeled sandals on the uneven ground . |
| 7 | As we came into the front hall I heard Kevin yelling up the stairs , ‘ Stop the hammering ! |
| 8 | Once the New Year festivities are out of the way , we expect that sales will pick up significantly and continue to improve as we come into the traditional pre-spring buying season . ’ |
| 9 | They came into the upper room . |
| 10 | She wondered what her father and brothers were doing at that moment , and pictured Niall and Roger riding in through the castle gate with more stories of escapades , cattle raids , skirmishes , pranks and hunting expeditions ; and so vividly could she imagine them that it seemed that she actually heard their voices , saw their red-cheeked smiles , and smelt the leather of their boots and the steam from their bodies when they came into the big kitchen at the end of a day . |
| 11 | And then he saw them come into the amber flicker of the firelight with the flames lighting green lamps in their heads . |
| 12 | IAN WOOSNAM , so out of form coming into the Masters , nevertheless began to put up an heroic defence at Augusta National yesterday and was within a stroke of the lead as he came into the finishing holes in his second round . |
| 13 | Dr Nolan looked deadbeat as he came into the little bedroom at Milltown . |
| 14 | The engine whistled as it came into the wide bay of railway lines beside the colliery , where rows of trucks stood in harbour ( 11 ) . |
| 15 | Cornwall tells him , ‘ the revenges we are bound to take upon your traitorous father are not fit for your beholding ’ ( III.vii.6ff. ) ) , he comes into the final stage of his career , moving from subject to object , first of Goneril 's love , then of Regan 's . |