Example sentences of "come [adv prt] 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In addition to the students coming in through the normal channels , two non-uniform routes have emerged during the eighties . |
| 26 | I thought we were going to have a visitor coming in through the back door . |
| 27 | She had been waiting on Dreadnought to watch the water coming in through the main leak . |
| 28 | Of the young players coming up through the Jamaican ranks , Walsh rates in particular the 21-year-old left-hander Robert Samuels , opening batsman Delroy Morgan , and fast bowler Joel Grant , while Jimmy Adams has already made an impressive Test debut against South Africa . |
| 29 | Well unfortunately if , if I did have a delivery of coal it would come in through the other entrance . |
| 30 | ‘ Make foreign things work for China ’ , ran one slogan but it recognised that ‘ flies and pests ’ would come in through the open door as well as fresh air to revitalise the stuffy atmosphere in China . |