Example sentences of "come in from the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 2 | The train had come in from the sidings and stood in the station , warm and pulsing , its engines reattached , the horses and grooms on board and fresh foods and ice loaded . |
| 3 | Well there was always the parlour , you must have the parlour and er you , you had two living rooms and the one was the parlour and there was a cellar underneath the parlour and er the stairs used to come in from the back and go up , up the stairs over the entrance to the cellar but the stairs used to run up there underneath the stairs was the entrance to the cellar , there was a door , so that you could n't just walk down the cellar without opening the door you see , but apart from that there was er there was just the two , two bedrooms . |
| 4 | They were used to store the very large volume of offerings and tribute that came in from the townspeople and from the people living in the surrounding countryside ; administrating the inflow and redistribution of this temple tribute was a major function of the Minoan temple . |
| 5 | Twamley then came in from the backyard and when accused by Riley , he denied it , offering also to be searched . |
| 6 | In 1874 the Mercury reported that the custom was in decline but ‘ formerly several gangs of ‘ plough-witches ' ’ , ludicrously dressed and with hideous painted faces , came in from the country and visited the tradesmen 's shops , levying ‘ ‘ black-mail' ’ and generally terminating their begging rounds with drunken orgies ' . |
| 7 | She knew that some of the men there were shepherds who came in from the country and that all this must be connected with the kidnapping . |
| 8 | It seems that Meg was washing up in the pantry yesterday when Mr Swinton came in from the shore as is his custom in the afternoons , and you were with him ! |
| 9 | ‘ The best scores from weekly magazines came from City Limits and New Stateman & Society ; the Literary Review scored well ; the TLS and London Review of Books were disappointing , and the worst scores of all came in from the Spectator and Time Out . |
| 10 | Then , in the afternoon , I came in from the garden and found her in an armchair , engrossed in a thick , glossy-looking book . |
| 11 | Mum came in from the shops and gave us the news that , starting from September , we are to have 2 morning services . |
| 12 | ‘ I think they know what 's to be done , Mrs Crumwallis , ’ said Hilary Frome , coming in from the sitting-room and taking immediate charge . |
| 13 | ‘ A harvest wagon was coming in from the field when suddenly the horses stopped and refused to go any further . |
| 14 | I 'd just come in from the garden and kicked my wellies off when it happened . ’ |
| 15 | They were scared of the dogs that had been bitten and strayed : scared that the jackals , gone mad , would come in from the forest and molest them in packs . |
| 16 | Ten o'clock — we come in from the park and then write up what we saw and do a project on it . |
| 17 | They saw the man come in from the street and stand for a moment adjusting to the darkness . |
| 18 | He comes in from the stairwell and closes the double doors . |