Example sentences of "came [adv prt] through the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could relive it every time I came in through the front door . |
| 2 | She was hanging up the jacket of her plum-coloured suit when Rebecca came in through the outer door . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He came in through the back door on Lily 's afternoon out . |
| 7 | Her father came in through the back door . |
| 8 | The tiny river sounds came in through the open hatches . |
| 9 | The smell of the flowers came in through the open windows of the bus . |
| 10 | The hours passed , daylight faded , and the sounds of a warm September evening came in through the open window . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She turned as two uniformed policemen came in through the main entrance . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |