Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Is she of a good family , like Mercy ? ’ asked his surprised mother , who had come in during the conversation . |
| 32 | What 's happened is , of course , that as the costs have fallen and the micros have come in through the door so they 're very much smaller , erm it all becomes possible for the whole of society and not for a tiny elite . |
| 33 | Ronnie must have come in through the yard door without her knowing … |
| 34 | Probably the paper did n't even have wire service , and if it did , he 'd bet a dime that anything which had come in about the book 's author had simply been buried in the chaos then reigning in the newspaper office . |
| 35 | Labour Members say that they want to have a debate , yet because they have been discomfited in other debates they have come in to the Chamber to start shouting and jeering . |
| 36 | More than 50 orphaned or injured otters from all over Britain have come in to the trust 's rehabilitation centre in south-west Scotland . |
| 37 | She sat at the table and painstakingly wrote down the sums of money that should have come in for the work already done . |
| 38 | It had come in for the attack . |
| 39 | I 've come in for the polish |
| 40 | The wh he said in fact it 's just come in for the programme or something has n't it . |
| 41 | It 's probably come in with the door being open . |
| 42 | There was one early proposal about archaeology which became a series called The Blood of the British , where they had come in with the idea of the series . |
| 43 | Old Joseph was glad he kept the Christmas cards from his son and daughter in 1987 , for every year since then he has taken them out and displayed them as if they had come in with the post . |
| 44 | He was glad that he did n't throw out the Christmas cards from his son and daughter in 1987 , for every year since he had taken them out of the suitcase on top of the wardrobe and displayed them in his own room as if they had come in with the morning post . |
| 45 | All the lights are up and cold air has come in with the officials . |
| 46 | A tidy desk and behind it a man who might have come in on the Saturday afternoon for extra work . |
| 47 | He had come in at the door , he had lain down with her , he had been her lover . |
| 48 | Otherwise whoever it was would probably have come in from the corridor . |
| 49 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 50 | It was a relief when Stephen Copley , the Senior Chemist , arrived just before ten , bustling in as usual , his rubicund face with its tonsure and fringe of black curly hair glistening as if he had come in from the sun . |
| 51 | The train had come in from the sidings and stood in the station , warm and pulsing , its engines reattached , the horses and grooms on board and fresh foods and ice loaded . |
| 52 | Ray had come in from the country bank and we sat with Margaret through the short service . |
| 53 | OVER the past two years , Swedish investors have come in from the cold . |
| 54 | The majority of domestic workers are young women without any formal education who have come in from the countryside . |
| 55 | Then , when the horse is brought out of the stable , instead of just walking quietly along ( which it would if it had just come in from the paddock ) , it is jumping out of its skin , ready to spook and shy at anything , nostrils dilated , eyes bulging , and tail hoisted high . |
| 56 | ‘ This report has just come in from the Environments Officer . |
| 57 | It was quite soon after the terrible motor accident that had crippled him for life , and she had just come in from the garden with a bunch of flowers for him . |
| 58 | This particular form of the game is not that old , having come in in the middle of the last century , when changes took place in the technology of pelota . |
| 59 | Well you 'll have to come in on the way ho |
| 60 | The local police kindly agreed to come in on the act and a few off-duty policemen pretended to stalk the burglars and locked them up for the night at a disused police station at Ironbridge ! |