Example sentences of "come [adv] into the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He refused to come downstairs into the cellar but more or less instructed me to return to Oakington at once , as the Commander-in-Chief wanted to speak to me .
2 He held that an injunction could be granted against a stranger who had come innocently into the possession of confidential information to which he was not entitled .
3 Having subdued the home team 's initial pressure Newcastle began to come more into the game and took the lead after 16 minutes with an excellent goal from their leading scorer Peacock .
4 I tried to marry this judgment with the memory of the sturdy young woman I 'd seen joking in the glade ; who had come breezily into The Pightle telling me to water the plants and daring me to a duel of wits with Edward ; who had seemed so certain of me over against his cautious vacillation. fragile was not the first word that would have occurred to me , unless I had overlooked something vital — something which , I remembered , Bob had noted .
5 She had n't wanted to come up into the cab .
6 It was Christmas Eve and Agnes had wondered over the last few days if she had heard aright on the night she had gone to the closet , because the next morning her father had come blithely into the kitchen and said , ‘ Your mother is having a lie-in this morning ; take her a cup of tea along and a bit of toast .
7 He did not believe that Rose , if she had come back into the flat , would have let the cat out , or left it unfed .
8 But he admitted : ‘ It is a crashing diappointment for Rob because he had only just come back into the side — and his return coincided with two successive clean sheets . ’
9 Sam Somerville had come back into the room , shouting at the bugs : ‘ He 's gone .
10 Sandra had come back into the room , and somehow she was at Matthew 's side , holding his hand and weeping .
11 He has come out into the road wearing slippers .
12 All the different interest groups have suddenly been allowed to come out into the open and in some cases it is a question of each for himself and damn the rest . ’
13 People have known for some time what has been going on , and I 'm surprised it has taken this long to come out into the open .
14 It would give them the push they needed to come out into the open .
15 Perhaps everything — not that there is anything — should just have been allowed to come out into the open at that point .
16 It seems you are right — it may well be time for the Party to come out into the open . ’
17 ‘ If I did wait for Garry to come back into the fold , what would you be doing ? ’
18 He said he 's pleased that Pakistan has decided to come back into the Commonwealth .
19 They then tell the other child to come back into the room .
20 People began to come back into the block .
21 Then I found her outside the kitchen door , crying , she 'd lost her shoes what with one thing and another and she was too ashamed to come back into the house .
22 You do n't want to come back into the house after somebody has been there .
23 ‘ He came right into the carriage from the corridor and said , ‘ I expect you need a hand , sir , ’ ’ Jonathon explained .
24 ‘ I was casing Barbs 's place and she came right into the garden .
25 Well we got married in nineteen forty one and I lived first of all in Sussex where erm my mother was living because my husband went into the Air Force and he was erm away for five years , well we had a lot of bombing in the early part of the war in Sussex and my father eventually came here to Harlow thinking we were getting away from it and of course we came right into the V er what was it ?
26 They came down into the hall and heard a key in the lock .
27 A moment later the hatch shot open and men in boots came down into the hold , their voices loud in the confined space .
28 He came down into the cellar and was awarded a pint and we all seemed to be enjoying ourselves when , once more , there was a banging on the door .
29 So the sergeant came down into the cellar and again was awarded a pint ; he explained that the wing commander was wanted back at Oakington immediately because someone at HQ wanted to speak to him .
30 ‘ But for some reason , on this occasion , one firework came down into the crowd .
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