Example sentences of "came in [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alain came in as the doctor 's car left the house and he stood at the foot of the bed and regarded her sternly . |
| 2 | And yet … there was a night , long ago now , when a mist came in off the sea ; we slept uneasily , then woke in the dark , to hear the cold whine of sea magic in the air . |
| 3 | She came in through the corridor , shuffling in her thick black clothes . |
| 4 | She came in through the yard door , and from the moment he saw her , Dauntless could tell she was a sorceress of deftness and strength . |
| 5 | Spittals ' hands glowed from the diligent rubbing he was applying to them as she came in through the door at ten o'clock . |
| 6 | There were no windows and only a trickle of light came in through the door behind him . |
| 7 | As the second show was coming to an end , Lucy sat herself in the makeup chair and made a sullen face and checked her watch frequently , with the idea that Josie should catch her doing it as she finally came in through the door . |
| 8 | ‘ I came in through the door . ’ |
| 9 | And the searchlights the the battery that we were The camp that we were near , they opened fire and the battery would open fire at that , and the searchlight anyway came in through the window . |
| 10 | The boy came in through the back carrying Russell 's blanket roll and carbine and put them down on the passenger bench . |
| 11 | The inrush of fresh air came in through the room , circulated , inter mixed with the vapour laden air in the lounge . |
| 12 | So , so John came in over the top , Colin put his hands on top line , so John said I 'm in charge , over the top , Colin said , no . |
| 13 | The nitrate came in via the tap , this being Fenland , where ‘ traditional ’ agricultural run-off enriches the fertility of that which we are supposed to drink . |
| 14 | ‘ I only came in on the red , raw minute , ’ she said , ‘ so you 'll excuse me , madam . ’ |
| 15 | When Ceauŝescu personally came in on the act they faked a car accident and tricked up a couple of bodies for the Securitate to send back to England . |
| 16 | So , as Jonathan Miller put it , ‘ man came in on the back of the machine ’ . |
| 17 | David McIvor came in on the blind-side and Ian Smith was called up when Graham Marshall injured his knee . |
| 18 | He came in on the Tube as usual , and walked the last quarter-mile . |
| 19 | Kenny Logan switched from wing to fullback and Tony Stanger came in on the wing . |
| 20 | ‘ Came in on the morning commercial flight at dawn . |
| 21 | After a few months of doing this several times each day and night , most of us could plot at the same speed as the information came in on the teleprinter . |
| 22 | Then , just when she was feeling really at ease with him , he stepped back a pace , came in on the tail-end of her report on the new extra-calorie meal schedule they were working on , and undermined her equilibrium totally with the words , ‘ I like the way the dappled light is playing on your hair . |
| 23 | He could see the grey ruffled silk of the sea on the left as they banked and came in towards the airport . |
| 24 | Helen came in towards the end , and , with no outside calls for her to go to , Joanna looked rather depressed . |
| 25 | The sending off of Rangers ' Mark Hateley , which came in between the opening goal from Ian Durrant and an equaliser from Lorenzo Staelens , was questionable in the extreme . |
| 26 | In the morning the sun came in at the window and woke me . |
| 27 | Kingsley Amis , who wrote an adventure for Bond as well as creating Jim Dixon , reflects aptly on the reasons for his : ‘ What happened was that we came in at the tail end of the literary tradition to the effect that no decent girl enjoys sex — only tarts were supposed to do that . |
| 28 | Pensions for the aged came in at the beginning of the twentieth century . |
| 29 | When the tax came in at the beginning of 1863 , vodka became cheaper and more readily available , state revenues held up , and the former monopolists of the retail trade began to invest their accumulated capital in railways , banks and mines . |
| 30 | In the main gatehouse tower on the first stack , Moray was asking of the guard-captain whether the Countess was at home when the door from the first of the bridge-corridors was flung open and a young woman came in at the run , hair blown , laughing-eyed , skirts kilted up the better to run , fine bosom tumultuous — as unusual a Countess of Dunbar and March as was the castle of which she was chatelaine . |