Example sentences of "have come in [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | JACQUES Delors has come in for a lot of flak for the collapse of the Gatt world trade talks . |
| 3 | The prince has come in for a lot of criticism from the UN and the West for spending most of the past few months in China . |
| 4 | All the lights are up and cold air has come in with the officials . |
| 5 | I 'd come in in the middle of something . |
| 6 | This particular form of the game is not that old , having come in in the middle of the last century , when changes took place in the technology of pelota . |
| 7 | Well you 'll have to come in on the way ho |
| 8 | A tidy desk and behind it a man who might have come in on the Saturday afternoon for extra work . |
| 9 | ‘ She might have come in with a boyfriend . |
| 10 | There was nothing to worry about : if there had been , the fuzz would have come in with a warrant . |
| 11 | Ronnie must have come in through the yard door without her knowing … |
| 12 | She sat at the table and painstakingly wrote down the sums of money that should have come in for the work already done . |
| 13 | Otherwise whoever it was would probably have come in from the corridor . |
| 14 | It would be a superior tramp to have come in with a key . |
| 15 | As Major Pond discovered , seat-holders were let in through side doors while hoi polloi had to come in through the front in the hope of getting what they could . |
| 16 | I see , I mean it 's good to see really that er test match has been dom well almost dominated at the moment , by , by a slow bowler , it 's an ideal situation for in England , batsmen done their job , England are in command , got lots of runs to play with , but it 's definitely the left arm spinner who 's causing the , the greatest problem out there , he 's , he 's landing it in the right place , he likes variation in that over , confident enough looks very tempted , always very difficult to come in at first twenty minutes as a batsman , when you 've come in on a turning wicket , a very , very , difficult . |
| 17 | I 've come in for the polish |
| 18 | ‘ Is she of a good family , like Mercy ? ’ asked his surprised mother , who had come in during the conversation . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | An elderly female novelist had come in at a quarter to six and Penelope had found herself trying to explain why her latest novel had not been reviewed in the Sunday Telegraph , why it had not been advertised more widely , why copies had not been displayed on the bookstall of a friend 's local station , why it had not yet been reprinted . |
| 21 | He had come in at the door , he had lain down with her , he had been her lover . |
| 22 | Just before airtime , a story had come in on a drug bust : space was hastily made for this . |
| 23 | He had come in for a book of stamps , and when he had got it he joined Breeze , who was waiting on the Green . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It had come in for the attack . |
| 26 | When Rachel was finally writing up her reports at the end of the morning , Nina suddenly called her and asked if she could come and look at a young man who had come in with a skin rash . |
| 27 | ‘ You 're really down , are n't you ? – said Felix 's wife , who had come in with a jar of instant coffee and a jug of water no more than fairly hot , which increased Stephen 's worry that many things were falling behind . |
| 28 | There was one early proposal about archaeology which became a series called The Blood of the British , where they had come in with the idea of the series . |
| 29 | Old Joseph was glad he kept the Christmas cards from his son and daughter in 1987 , for every year since then he has taken them out and displayed them as if they had come in with the post . |
| 30 | He was glad that he did n't throw out the Christmas cards from his son and daughter in 1987 , for every year since he had taken them out of the suitcase on top of the wardrobe and displayed them in his own room as if they had come in with the morning post . |