Example sentences of "come in and [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no sign of any other cars or tanks or armoured personnel carriers and no indication that the police Stukas were waiting to come in and bomb the last pockets of resistance . |
| 2 | She still had n't found an answer when the housekeeper came in and served the first course . |
| 3 | I was just going out when a man came in and asked the same question . |
| 4 | Even as we spoke , a young lady came in and bought the little creature for fifteen pounds , hammer and all . |
| 5 | It ended in a fight — I hit him , he hit me — then the teacher came in and broke the whole thing up . |
| 6 | Marx , in particular , had already noted this fact in several places , but he explained the phenomenon of internal division as a transitional one ; as evidence of a stage in which private property and individual families were coming in and undermining the communal descent group . |
| 7 | ‘ You know well enough , James — you must have thought — once the government is resolved , and we have talked ourselves hoarse and there is no ink left in the country — then the dragoons will come in and cart the young men away as though we have done nothing . |