Example sentences of "come in from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise whoever it was would probably have come in from the corridor . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Ray had come in from the country bank and we sat with Margaret through the short service . |
| 6 | OVER the past two years , Swedish investors have come in from the cold . |
| 7 | The majority of domestic workers are young women without any formal education who have come in from the countryside . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ This report has just come in from the Environments Officer . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | At my parents house , erm , in that , we 've had an extension in there , so the garden 's not there any more , but erm , I used , the light used to come in from the windows , so of at , at the angle to the bath , so I could n't lift my leg up , so I rub it gently like this , and I 'd watch the told me where I missed bits and |
| 12 | If our much smaller , and much more numerous local museums are also to come in from the cold , the only route open to them is the one of providing a stimulating and memorable learning experience . |
| 13 | Well there was always the parlour , you must have the parlour and er you , you had two living rooms and the one was the parlour and there was a cellar underneath the parlour and er the stairs used to come in from the back and go up , up the stairs over the entrance to the cellar but the stairs used to run up there underneath the stairs was the entrance to the cellar , there was a door , so that you could n't just walk down the cellar without opening the door you see , but apart from that there was er there was just the two , two bedrooms . |
| 14 | I I 've got a bill to come in from the electrician for his call-out charge he diagnosed that it 's was not an electrical fault and then thought it was an electrical fault by the noise , it was making a fizzing noise but he does n't th he said it 's , it 's the pump the pump is on the way out it needs replacing house is built in nineteen eighty five ! |
| 15 | When results began to come in from the field researchers , Highlander served as the collection , organisation and computation centre , and held workshops to allow participants to draw some very marked comparisons and contrasts from the raw data . |
| 16 | When Pa came in from the yard , he sniffed the air with a puzzled frown . |
| 17 | A young woman came in from the booking-hall trailed by a ragged child , its legs pocked with the marks of vermin . |
| 18 | They were used to store the very large volume of offerings and tribute that came in from the townspeople and from the people living in the surrounding countryside ; administrating the inflow and redistribution of this temple tribute was a major function of the Minoan temple . |
| 19 | His mother came in from the kitchen to ask if we 'd like cheese or fresh cheese with cream . |
| 20 | He was dialling when Miles and Frances came in from the kitchen . |
| 21 | Elise Fox was a woman who prided herself on her ability to deal with crisis , but at eleven o'clock that Saturday night she still lay limp on the sofa in the flat , looking utterly shattered when her young sister came in from the kitchen with yet another pot of strong black coffee . |
| 22 | Fortunately they asked no more questions , and were still discussing the wonderful things I had seen , when Joe came in from the forge . |
| 23 | I joined a party to climb down the great west cliffs to the boulder scree of Carn Mør , where we stayed until darkness fell and listened to the calls of Manx shearwater , Leach 's and storm petrels as they came in from the ocean to feed their young , hidden deep under the boulders . |
| 24 | Although , long before Johnson , Daniel Defoe found Elgin ‘ a very agreeable place to live in ’ — those gentry not wishing to venture as far as Edinburgh or London came in from the Highlands for the winter — Elgin 's time came later : a half-century after our heroes ' visit , it became a little classical Victorian market town whose streets and suburbs echoed Edinburgh 's New Town in elegance and spaciousness . |
| 25 | When Moran came in from the field with Michael he was in high good humour . |
| 26 | Twamley then came in from the backyard and when accused by Riley , he denied it , offering also to be searched . |
| 27 | The door opened , and someone came in from the night . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Oliver came in from the balcony . |
| 30 | Yet most Dissenters did avail themselves of the relief afforded by the Declaration , and some eighty addresses of thanks were presented by various Nonconforming ministers and churches ; addresses even came in from the Quakers , who had refused to have anything to do with Charles 's Indulgence of 1672 . |