Example sentences of "come in [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Unless your estimable uncle had expensive amusements , Master Hussey , you must surely have come in for this very money along with the rest . ’ |
| 2 | The term New Historicism has come in for considerable hostile criticism both from those who claim that there is nothing particularly new about it and among those who admire new historical methods but feel the term incorrectly suggests a unified theoretical field and subsequent critical practice within a body of critical writing in which much contending diversity exists . |
| 3 | They 've just come in for ninety three . |
| 4 | Bernstein 's work has come in for some strong criticism recently . |
| 5 | Of the new ‘ Nepmen ’ , two were Jews who had come in from some other guberniia , and the other three all had military experience but little capital in goods or cash . |
| 6 | Then the old old binder used to come in with two two year old stalwarts , horses , and he used to go round this field and it used to take him days . |
| 7 | Well sometimes if I 'm doing er say a sixty year old , to sixty five , he 's got his state pension to come in at sixty five , so even if the P E P has n't quite recovered , he might just decide to leave that where it is , and then his state pension comes in , his income is then made up , and off we go again . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Her mother came in with some stewed plums in a bowl . |
| 10 | ‘ He came in with this folded mag ’ , remembers Sue Small . |
| 11 | Hateley baffled and upset by the affair says : ‘ I came in for that one game , and I thought I did reasonably well . |
| 12 | Antrim 's new president collected 220 votes in all as the finances of the Association came in for some healthy but heated discussion . |
| 13 | The so-called Main Force bombers from 5 and 6 Groups further north were usually later on the scene and were very heavily loaded with high explosives and incendiaries , and they came in for some real pastings . |
| 14 | When the Volvo 700 series was launched , the saloon 's rear styling , though effective in its use of space , came in for some heavy criticism in terms of appearance . |
| 15 | The bombers came in from two different sides of the harbour and from the direction and . |
| 16 | I did n't want to try landing the ship itself , because coming in to accurate pin-point landing requires delicate navigation , which was impossible with the ship 's erratic ceptors . |
| 17 | Lot number two Lot two is a Japanese ivory carving we 've got that showing for you for seventy five pounds at seventy five pounds , eighty , eighty five , ninety offered I 'm offered ninety pounds and I 'm selling it for ninety , ninety five , a hundred pounds and ten one twenty thirty a hundred and thirty for you sir , coming in at one thirty in the back row , one thirty and selling for a hundred and thirty pounds . |
| 18 | Mr Browning coming in at that very moment ran to his wife 's side and all but hauled her out of the bed in order to get her upright — in a moment , the convulsion was over and she sank back quite exhausted and drained . |
| 19 | I have a meeting with a software house at ten thirty , Mike is coming in at three thirty to talk about the new book , and tonight 's one of the nights when Yvonne is teaching , so I have to be home by a reasonable hour , so that we can exchange car keys and padlock keys and that sort thing . |
| 20 | right , and you say , oh there 's erm John 's plane 's coming in at forty five de , John 's plane 's coming in at forty five degrees , you see . |
| 21 | right , and you say , oh there 's erm John 's plane 's coming in at forty five de , John 's plane 's coming in at forty five degrees , you see . |
| 22 | Yeah , he 's forty five degrees , coming in at forty five degrees from me , that 's what they should say . |
| 23 | Yeah , if you do n't measure it the right way , and go all the way round there and say that he 's coming in on two hundred and twenty five degrees |
| 24 | Coming in on this conspicuous palm tree on a course of 310 °M , you will pass to port a prominent flat-topped and nearly awash rock just before you get to the reef opening itself . |
| 25 | As well as composing , Lennox Berkeley taught composition on the Broadwood piano in the study : among his pupils were Richard Rodney Bennett ; John Manduell , now head of the Northern College of Music ; and John Tavener who , in a recent broadcast , remembered how his lessons were often interrupted , sometimes by Nicky , the Berkeleys ' youngest son — whose football might make an unscheduled appearance through the window , to Lennox Berkeley 's gentle consternation — or by Freda coming in with some latest gossip which would send the tutor ‘ running for the gin cupboard ’ . |
| 26 | Our central sensors would detect any ship coming in from five thousand li out . |
| 27 | Ken 's not coming in till half ten . |
| 28 | No you ca n't cos Ken , Ken 's not coming in till half ten . |
| 29 | Further North Stockton and Middlesbrough would come in for some rough treatment at the hands of Rowland Holmes-Smith , principal of P&HS and chairman of the RIBS Teesside branch . |
| 30 | Sometimes it can be slightly embarrassing to be successful at something , and if you are beginning to turn the occasional head now that you are slimmer you may come in for some negative comments from your rivals . |