Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] come in " in BNC.
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| 1 | A little money came in from The Character of Completeness , and he took Dinah out for supper in an hotel one Sunday , when she was not working . |
| 2 | You 've got a total income coming in , er a total amount of benefit there of a hundred and three pounds thirty for this family . |
| 3 | The door opened behind them and a junior officer came in . |
| 4 | At one of our constituency surgeries , a retired widow came in to see us concerning the seventeen pounds extra which she would have to pay extra er to cover the other non-payments . |
| 5 | And this really was the basis therefore of the first films , they were really demonstrations that pictures could move , and this was sufficient for people to pay a few pence to come in erm and look at the films . |
| 6 | Others who have been home for a few months come in feeling as if their brains are becoming addled and wanting something to do . |
| 7 | The door opened again and a different guard came in . |
| 8 | A further problem comes in deciding how to interpret differences in the amount of activity elicited by a set of conditions . |
| 9 | One day a German officer came in to the camp to supervise work that was being done on some primitive drains by Polish forced labour . |
| 10 | A Japanese man came in and asked about the china ducks . |
| 11 | ‘ He always said he would n't stand in my way if a bigger club came in for me . |
| 12 | A bearlike man comes in . |
| 13 | Out of this new structure evolved the idea that Robson Rhodes needed a chief executive to come in from outside and run the company on the same lines as a plc . |
| 14 | Well like I mean we all know what a bell is , a bell which is set off by by a human body coming in . |
| 15 | But Pearce , says : ‘ I just ca n't see him packing it in for a younger man to come in . |
| 16 | But I think that , you know , we 've got so involved we 've done a lot of work in our time , but now we do n't seem to be erm There is a younger element coming in they tell me . |
| 17 | It is at this stage of our discussion that a little physics comes in useful . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Historians will be occupied for a long time to come in determining the exact balance and interaction of forces — including , to mention only the more obvious , the economic disaster of the Second World War , the rise of America , and the development of nationalism — which contributed to Britain 's imperial demise . |
| 20 | A black lady coming in ! |
| 21 | This is where a linguistic method comes in . |
| 22 | A fourth plane came in at Dibrugarh while we were waiting there , and that was the last . |
| 23 | But , as in the case say of a temporary administrator coming in he 'd be able to or she would be able to take up this file and use it . |
| 24 | Not unless a drunk man came in . |
| 25 | Once , four girls were collecting shells when a big swell came in and swept them away . |
| 26 | And a big stick comes in useful too . |
| 27 | We are not made for life or anything like that but there is a fair bit coming in . |
| 28 | Blaise Cendrars , the writer , saw Modigliani let fall a twenty-franc note one evening when a well-known pauper came in to sit at the next table . |
| 29 | But when I was there there were once one instant is er er the man on watch in the morning he spotted a floating mine come in right down to close to the rock and er er it anchored just about er er a quarter of a mile or maybe two hundred yards off the rock off the tower and er of well when a mine anchors of course it becomes er alive . |
| 30 | So one day , very hot and insecty , with a faint breeze coming in off the sea , we were all lying in the grass on the flat area just to the south of the house . |