Example sentences of "come [adv] through 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 ( Like many British design engineers at the time — and unlike Continental or American ones — he had no university training and had come up through the usual apprenticeship route with evening and part-time study . )
3 Er , this refers back to something said , a little while ago , talking about the fitness of judges , having come up through the legal system .
4 There was something in his walk — his whole aspect — as if , instead of having come out through the front gate , he had squeezed through a secret hole in the fence .
5 So a big change in the way that we are arranged has actually come about through the general management structure , and we 're hoping that this will give us more room , if you like to start looking at priorities , and to move the budget around in accordance with our feelings about those priorities .
6 It went on to note that many of the most effective schemes had come about through the voluntary sector as a result of individual enterprise or a one person crusade — not as a logical outcome of a strategic planning process .
7 I could relive it every time I came in through the front door .
8 She was hanging up the jacket of her plum-coloured suit when Rebecca came in through the outer door .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 He came in through the back door on Lily 's afternoon out .
13 Her father came in through the back door .
14 The tiny river sounds came in through the open hatches .
15 The smell of the flowers came in through the open windows of the bus .
16 The hours passed , daylight faded , and the sounds of a warm September evening came in through the open window .
17 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 .
18 She turned as two uniformed policemen came in through the main entrance .
19 Blackberry was about to reply when another rabbit came noisily through the thick dog 's mercury in the wood , blundered down into the brambles and pushed his way up from the ditch .
20 The only goal came midway through the second half .
21 One goal was good enough … it came midway through the second half … skipper Andy Melville ran it in and ran off to celebrate …
22 The winner came midway through the second half .
23 ‘ When we played MCC at Lord 's they had 10 county captains , if I remember rightly , and one player , J.W. Hearne , came out of the players ' gate , and the rest came out through the main entrance .
24 That was the last time that really hit me because if I 've got my facts correct , I think when we played England at Lord 's they all came out through the same gate , ’ Kerr said .
25 Suddenly she came out through the last curtain of trees and found herself looking down over sunlit green meadowland to where a railway line wound like a serpent through a cutting at the foot .
26 The surface had just begun to shimmer in the light when Mrs Rosalia Alderley came out through the French windows of the ballroom and stopped , staring in thunderstruck amazement .
27 Painfully , looking up at him , she saw a good strong profile , sandy hair tipped with gold from the sun coming in through the lace-curtained window .
28 But Marc 's business in the stable must have only taken a minute because he was coming in through the great oak doors even before she reached the foot of the stairs .
29 In addition to the students coming in through the normal channels , two non-uniform routes have emerged during the eighties .
30 I thought we were going to have a visitor coming in through the back door .
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