Example sentences of "came [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | He came in through the back door on Lily 's afternoon out . |
| 33 | Her father came in through the back door . |
| 34 | The tiny river sounds came in through the open hatches . |
| 35 | The smell of the flowers came in through the open windows of the bus . |
| 36 | The hours passed , daylight faded , and the sounds of a warm September evening came in through the open window . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | She turned as two uniformed policemen came in through the main entrance . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | good recruiting period and we had er thirty o thirty one I think it was or thirty four new members who came in at the general election . |
| 42 | He left Helen and went to have a bath and in the cold steamy bathroom there came to him this vision of a distant unreal Helen looking — well , radiant was the unexpected word that came to mind — looking not her usual self at all in some frock that glowed and billowed and rustled as she came in at the front door late , pink-cheeked , a touch dishevelled and greeted by the stone wall of Dorothy 's disapproval . |
| 43 | Now , obviously I 'm not going to talk about profits from the T V division just now , because Thames only came in at the half year , and we 're not including any profits from B Sky B in the half year , but it 's likely that we 'll take some de-loan stock interest in at the year end . |
| 44 | Lyn switched off the set as Stephen came in at the back door . |
| 45 | Well as you know er to be a basic rate taxpayer , you 're paying twenty five pence in the pound , apart from the er the new rate you know the first two thousand five hundred you get at twenty percent , which came in at the last budget . |
| 46 | But Anna did not talk to him , because Sarah came in at the same time . |
| 47 | Edward came in at the french window and stared blankly at his younger sister . |
| 48 | And you the wee envelopes that came in with the black edging on them . |
| 49 | J. Chapman , Sledmere Drive , Acklam , Middlesbrough : I was a final year pharmacy student in Sunderland and I was setting up apparatus for a chemistry experiment , when another student came in with the sad news that the King had died . |
| 50 | I had n't intended to speak on the external affairs section , but the discussion had widened so much that I came in with the attached remarks . |
| 51 | The day after , Jamie came in with the wooden dish of porridge , held it out to Cameron , then twitched it away when he reached for it and turned it upside down . |
| 52 | The Senior Medical Officer came in with the Thoracic Registrar . |
| 53 | We could put ourselves in three lots of two and your mum came in with the three pizzas we 'd get one between us so we get a half . |
| 54 | The problems do n't end there ; Kingsley Black had one of his best games for Northern Ireland in Tirana , when he came in for the injured Michael Hughes . |
| 55 | When she came in for the second time her throat was like looking at a plate full of strawberries and cream — red enlarged tonsils with a coating of puss . |
| 56 | ‘ Greed came in for the first time . |
| 57 | The next report came in for the 3rd goal , and again said ‘ Leeds are beginning to get back into the match , but Norwich have scored a 3rd ’ … all other reports/comments just mention the goals . |
| 58 | Shane Warne , whose solitary wicket of the series had cost him 228 runs , was rested , while Tom Moody came in for the out-of-form Mark Waugh . |
| 59 | When the programme 's ratings dipped immediately after the November revamp , Focus came in for the heaviest criticism . |
| 60 | If you remember your , from , from your history at school the , the , the first world war the Americans in the historic role of arriving at wars rather late erm came in to the first world war to win it for us erm and after it President Wilson who used to be professor of politics at Princeton , just put that in , er President Wilson created , essentially cos we were all bankrupt at the time as usual er the Americans the only ones who had any money left at the end of the wars , erm President Wilson helped to create the League of Nations , the forerunner of the United Nations but the U S senate refused to ratify the agreement . |