Example sentences of "come in [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Is she of a good family , like Mercy ? ’ asked his surprised mother , who had come in during the conversation .
2 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 .
3 Ronnie must have come in through the yard door without her knowing …
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 More than 50 orphaned or injured otters from all over Britain have come in to the trust 's rehabilitation centre in south-west Scotland .
7 However , the Green Paper has come in for a variety of criticisms and there is little evidence that its recommendations will be acted upon in the short- or medium-term .
8 Dates have just come in for a series of Ovation guitar clinics , with Ian Aitken : Wed Oct 14th , Picton Music , Swansea ; Thu 15th , Cranes Music , Cardiff ; Mon 26th , Oasis Music , Ringwood , Hants ; Tues 27th , Soundpad , Barnstaple ; Thu 29th , Avalon Music , Sevenoaks ; Wed 11th Nov , Music Inn , Nottingham ; Thu 12th , Musical Exchange , Birmingham ; Fri 13th , Foulds of Derby ; Wed 18th , Rose Morris Music Store , London .
9 If the literary establishment had thought to compare notes they would have realized that every male aura on and off Fleet Street had come in for a bashing .
10 He had come in for a book of stamps , and when he had got it he joined Breeze , who was waiting on the Green .
11 The successful receptionist models could be used to devise special training to enable CAB receptionists to ascertain the depth of a problem ; they could serve the dual function of assessing which clients have just come in for a form or a local address and they could make appointments for others in person or by telephone and smooth the queue .
12 JACQUES Delors has come in for a lot of flak for the collapse of the Gatt world trade talks .
13 The prince has come in for a lot of criticism from the UN and the West for spending most of the past few months in China .
14 She sat at the table and painstakingly wrote down the sums of money that should have come in for the work already done .
15 It had come in for the attack .
16 I 've come in for the polish
17 The wh he said in fact it 's just come in for the programme or something has n't it .
18 When Rachel was finally writing up her reports at the end of the morning , Nina suddenly called her and asked if she could come and look at a young man who had come in with a skin rash .
19 It would be a superior tramp to have come in with a key .
20 ‘ She might have come in with a boyfriend .
21 There was nothing to worry about : if there had been , the fuzz would have come in with a warrant .
22 ‘ You 're really down , are n't you ? – said Felix 's wife , who had come in with a jar of instant coffee and a jug of water no more than fairly hot , which increased Stephen 's worry that many things were falling behind .
23 It 's probably come in with the door being open .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 All the lights are up and cold air has come in with the officials .
28 I see , I mean it 's good to see really that er test match has been dom well almost dominated at the moment , by , by a slow bowler , it 's an ideal situation for in England , batsmen done their job , England are in command , got lots of runs to play with , but it 's definitely the left arm spinner who 's causing the , the greatest problem out there , he 's , he 's landing it in the right place , he likes variation in that over , confident enough looks very tempted , always very difficult to come in at first twenty minutes as a batsman , when you 've come in on a turning wicket , a very , very , difficult .
29 Just before airtime , a story had come in on a drug bust : space was hastily made for this .
30 A tidy desk and behind it a man who might have come in on the Saturday afternoon for extra work .
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