Example sentences of "come into the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Harry had come into the lower doorway at the right time , and was moving up between the tables to take his normal place among the young fellows of knightly family , his peers .
2 The cult of the goddess Ishtar had come into the Black Land with settlers from the far north-east where the Twin Rivers flowed .
3 They had not looked to see whether the police had come into the main road in time to see .
4 Diana felt a debt of gratitude to the woman who had been so kind to her during that first traumatic public engagement eighteen months before as well as an empathy with someone who , like her , had come into the royal world from the outside .
5 However , this does not apply to books from the same print-run circulated in the UK since his works have now come into the public domain in that country .
6 In the long term , Britain has to come into the next century with a partnership in Europe .
7 The engine whistled as it came into the wide bay of railway lines beside the colliery , where rows of trucks stood in harbour ( 11 ) .
8 ‘ I came into the first form of his boarding school .
9 The rise of the Nevilles and the Percies in the late fourteenth century was the first occasion when families of genuine northern origin came into the front rank of the nobility — one may exclude the duchy of Lancaster from any such comment , because it was closely connected with the royal family and also held substantial lands in the Midlands and the South .
10 She came into the cobbled yard in front of the coach house walking carefully in her high-heeled sandals on the uneven ground .
11 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 .
12 One afternoon , when Hindley had gone into town , Heathcliff came into the main room after lunch .
13 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 .
14 The benevolent influence of a family , such as that depicted in the first chapter of Tom Brown 's Schooldays , reached out to the tenants and other members of the local community ; the girls from the cottages came into the big house as dairy or nursery-maids ; the boys were taken on as under-gardeners or grooms .
15 Dr Nolan looked deadbeat as he came into the little bedroom at Milltown .
16 And that this wealth was not locked in land or designated for heirs : it was fine fresh wealth coming into the great port of Liverpool by the month , by the week even , in the form of Ceylon tea , Indian jute , Irish coal — Mr Crump had an encyclopaedia of imports which he rattled off in diffident haste .
17 But there was a new broom coming into the English Faculty at this period and , although younger than Simpson , Wilson , Garrod and the rest , he appeared to be more radically reactionary .
18 And then he saw them come into the amber flicker of the firelight with the flames lighting green lamps in their heads .
19 As regards property , it should be noticed that law and practice , to a large extent , make it unlikely that property of any considerable value will come into the direct ownership of an infant .
20 It is also a fact that very few people actually come into the Christian faith with a deep burden of sin .
21 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 .
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