Example sentences of "he came in [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He came in at the side door as though he knew his own way . |
| 2 | He came in on the Tube as usual , and walked the last quarter-mile . |
| 3 | ‘ He came in to the shop and asked me what he should wear on the date . |
| 4 | When he came in for the night some hours later he was still agitated and fretting . |
| 5 | She had made him his favourite bottom pie and onions for supper that evening when he came in from the fishing , and he had gone back down to Mother Russell 's after , for a few ales . |
| 6 | No need for secrets , so Mrs Files telephoned her daughter straight away , then told Frank Grimwood who came by with four brace of partridge from yesterday 's let shoot ; who stopped Alec on the tractor with a load of silage behind ; who met Tom in the grainstore ; who found Mary in the estate office when he went in to fill out his time sheet ; who confided in the postman when he came with the afternoon mail ; who amazed Mrs May in Forester 's Cottage when he delivered her Freeman 's Catalogue and a postcard from her son holidaying in Pouket ; who stunned her husband when he came in from the saw mill . |
| 7 | He came in from the scullery with the coal bucket in one hand and in the other a fat metal cylinder . |