Example sentences of "come [verb] in [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Vincent barely managed to keep his temper in check in the blast of this ‘ raw north wind ’ that had come howling in through the front door . |
2 | Just as her words were out one of the charity women came chattering in through the open doors to the terrace . |
3 | He was about to leave the foundry and continue his journey when an apprentice came rushing in with the loveliest girl he had seen in a long while , and his heart seemed to stop . |
4 | In the second half , Joey Beauchamp came flying in like the daring young man on the trapeze . |
5 | Next moment the swirling fog in the alley was suddenly lit to a brilliant white by the head lamps of the car which came roaring in at the far end . |
6 | On this bright evening , they were looped back by twisted and tasselled cords ; light came streaming in through the sashed plate-glass windows . |
7 | He swerved past it , stopped and , looking back , saw Bigwig come racing in from the opposite side . |
8 | ‘ If we do not act then thousands more will come floating in on the early spring tides , maybe tens of thousands , even hundreds , and they will bring chaos and suffering on a scale far larger than anything we have seen so far , ’ he warned . |
9 | It comes trailing in across the seething crowd of heads without a single bite . |