Example sentences of "come into the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The engine whistled as it came into the wide bay of railway lines beside the colliery , where rows of trucks stood in harbour ( 11 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ I came into the first form of his boarding school . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And then he saw them come into the amber flicker of the firelight with the flames lighting green lamps in their heads . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |