Example sentences of "came in [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I came in as a young teacher , enthusiastic , full of new ideas but you soon find that the old attitudes rub off on you , and so you end up thinking , ‘ Oh , why am I doing this ? |
2 | It was often her task to carry it up to the little sitting-room , followed by Mary from the village , who came in as a daily maid , bearing a silver jug of hot water and matches to light all the lamps . |
3 | A fair number of final bids which came in under the reserve price were later accepted . |
4 | I could relive it every time I came in through the front door . |
5 | She was hanging up the jacket of her plum-coloured suit when Rebecca came in through the outer door . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | He came in through the back door on Lily 's afternoon out . |
10 | Her father came in through the back door . |
11 | The tiny river sounds came in through the open hatches . |
12 | The smell of the flowers came in through the open windows of the bus . |
13 | The hours passed , daylight faded , and the sounds of a warm September evening came in through the open window . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | She turned as two uniformed policemen came in through the main entrance . |
16 | I thought you said there 'd be no problem if I came in on a six-month permit ? ’ |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | Lyn switched off the set as Stephen came in at the back door . |
22 | Edward came in at the french window and stared blankly at his younger sister . |
23 | He came in with a long stride , with head erect , and calm authoritative eyes . |
24 | One day Aileen came in with a black eye . |
25 | Owners , whose holiday brands include Sovereign , Enterprise and Falcon , had sought an alliance with German-owned Thomas Cook to cement its position in the competitive UK market , but fast-growing and highly-profitable Airtours came in with a rival bid to spark off weeks of rhetoric and activity which finally ended yesterday . |
26 | The sea came in with a weightless rush and trickled between dry rocks . |
27 | But when no-one came in with a firm bid Beck sent a video compilation of all Dublin 's goals to every First Division club . |
28 | ‘ I came in with a bad knee and it just started getting worse , ’ the 13th-seeded Lendl said . |
29 | There was another one came in with a little bit of a strain yesterday morning , so what 've done this morning , we 've just had a collective training session and we 've told them to report at quarter to eleven in the morning . |
30 | Close to dawn she forced herself into bed , but she was still wide-eyed when the maid came in with an early-morning cup of tea . |