Example sentences of "come in [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It turned out to have come in through the curved zip which is unprotected by a weather flap . |
| 2 | This beggar had come in to the fitting shop , corner at the back corner , where he should n't have been . |
| 3 | What I might actually do it see if Ian 's not doing anything if he not come in for the full time that they 're cleaning up , but come in for those sort of things . |
| 4 | Only a party bigot would claim that they had somehow come in with the Conservative Government three years earlier . |
| 5 | Reproaching herself for not having unlocked it when she had come in from the main door , she rose quickly and went to open up . |
| 6 | Half of the extra cash will be forthcoming only if projects of sufficient quality to take up the whole £2 million come in by the next deadline for grants on 1 April . |
| 7 | If Lili had come in by the back door it had been very late indeed . |
| 8 | Mountbatten 's especial qualification in Attlee 's eyes for the job of viceroy was his success in getting the Burmese nationalists to come in on the British side in the closing stages of the war ; it was Attlee 's firm belief in later life , as indeed it was Mountbatten 's , that if Mountbatten had been left in charge in Rangoon , Burma would never have left the Commonwealth . |
| 9 | Erm the volume i i is tremendous and er one worries about the effect of the surging waters on such an old construction , now we far worse than and consequently the emergency services have had to consider all sorts of alternatives , some of which you see now with the piping on , on the surface of it 's been having a good result the immediate problem , but you ca n't stop there and the emergency team have given consideration to all sorts of other possible temporary solutions in the event or that the pumping failed and er I think that 's possibly where this rumour about erm the railway line arrived but er I think Chairman I 've said enough , we all , we would all agree I think that the emergency workers have performed er I think we 're all pleased to see the army coming in erm and doing what they 've done and erm I certainly er appreciated the opportunity to come in on the old A Twenty Seven through West it took my mind back er many years I can tell you and erm I , I think congratulations all round are due , but I come back to what 's all saying and which I support as it would be a folly when the dust has settled erm to really take a an objective er position and see that er arrangements are in hand channels and things like that will not again be supercharged in the way they are . |
| 10 | He was recently fined £500 by the European Tour when , after a first round of 74 in his defence of the Mediterranean Open , he refused to come in for the requested press interview . |
| 11 | ‘ They 're going to come in at the far end . ’ |
| 12 | er he wants money coming in to the central fund er if has in two years time to face a , a trial , these allegations so be it , but meanwhile he wants the money to come in to the central fund for the reason he 's outlined |
| 13 | I expect further applications to come in during the next year and , with time , a growing number of applications as the benefits are seen to come through . |
| 14 | In January of 1825 Barratt had decided upon an ambitious and costly project ; a deep adit level to be driven as a cross-cut , some 230 yds. downstream from Taylor 's Level into the eastern bank of Red Dell Beck and in a northerly direction , to come in below the old workings and to explore the vein , especially below that section expected to be opened up by Taylor 's . |
| 15 | You saw in fact the lady as you came in about the same time as you came in who does that . |
| 16 | A fair number of final bids which came in under the reserve price were later accepted . |
| 17 | I could relive it every time I came in through the front door . |
| 18 | She was hanging up the jacket of her plum-coloured suit when Rebecca came in through the outer door . |
| 19 | There was a layer of grey-blue smoke in the room at about shoulder level , and a big wave in it , probably produced by me as I came in through the double doors of the back porch . |
| 20 | Back home , he dreamt , he filled the whole flat with buckets of earth , even filled soup dishes and the kettle and the wineglasses with soil , and spent hours watering them and moving them carefully around every day , carrying them from room to room so that they would be struck in turn by whatever sunshine came in through the different windows at different times of the day , making sure they were kept warm . |
| 21 | He looked up when Donna Frizzell came in through the back door , and was startled to see that her hat was awry and her makeup smudged beyond repair . |
| 22 | He came in through the back door on Lily 's afternoon out . |
| 23 | Her father came in through the back door . |
| 24 | The tiny river sounds came in through the open hatches . |
| 25 | The smell of the flowers came in through the open windows of the bus . |
| 26 | The hours passed , daylight faded , and the sounds of a warm September evening came in through the open window . |
| 27 | A little breeze came in through the open window and set the hanging light swinging , so that her face was now shadowed , now glistening pale in the electric glare . |
| 28 | She turned as two uniformed policemen came in through the main entrance . |
| 29 | Seve Ballesteros , who had shared the overnight lead on 67 , was making no further progress and was still five under par as he came in on the closing holes . |
| 30 | And then , at four-thirty when she was just contemplating going off shift , a call came in on the red phone that made her feel cold inside . |