Example sentences of "came in [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | A fair number of final bids which came in under the reserve price were later accepted . |
2 | I could relive it every time I came in through the front door . |
3 | She was hanging up the jacket of her plum-coloured suit when Rebecca came in through the outer door . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | He came in through the back door on Lily 's afternoon out . |
8 | Her father came in through the back door . |
9 | The tiny river sounds came in through the open hatches . |
10 | The smell of the flowers came in through the open windows of the bus . |
11 | The hours passed , daylight faded , and the sounds of a warm September evening came in through the open window . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | She turned as two uniformed policemen came in through the main entrance . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Lyn switched off the set as Stephen came in at the back door . |
19 | Edward came in at the french window and stared blankly at his younger sister . |
20 | And you the wee envelopes that came in with the black edging on them . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | The Senior Medical Officer came in with the Thoracic Registrar . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | Apart from these three , reports came in to the Royal Society from more than fifty other vessels , whose log-books provided a valuable source of information , particularly since officers-of-the-watch habitually keep a note of the time at which observations are made . |
28 | It 's possible that he tiptoed down the passage and came in by the main door . |
29 | The ceremony was in the hands of Mr Alexander Dubcek , who came in from the political cold less than 24 hours before , to be elected head of the new-style Federal Assembly . |
30 | But nobody cared for the stones he told And he sat all alone of a night Until one day a traveller came in from the cold A sorry and miserable sight . |