Example sentences of "[noun sg] come in at the " in BNC.
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1 | In the morning the sun came in at the window and woke me . |
2 | Theda came to herself to find that she lay in a large four-poster bed , with the curtains drawn back , and the weak autumn sun coming in at the windows . |
3 | When the tax came in at the beginning of 1863 , vodka became cheaper and more readily available , state revenues held up , and the former monopolists of the retail trade began to invest their accumulated capital in railways , banks and mines . |
4 | I have heard that even if they lose 15 per cent of the money coming in at the moment , some of them could fold . |
5 | In the main gatehouse tower on the first stack , Moray was asking of the guard-captain whether the Countess was at home when the door from the first of the bridge-corridors was flung open and a young woman came in at the run , hair blown , laughing-eyed , skirts kilted up the better to run , fine bosom tumultuous — as unusual a Countess of Dunbar and March as was the castle of which she was chatelaine . |
6 | Every September we have the small ad hoc Cabinet committee known as the ‘ Star Chamber ’ [ MISC 62 ] in which Lord Whitelaw sits down and tries to bang heads together , and then the Prime Minister comes in at the last minute and bangs heads together even more . |