Example sentences of "came in [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blaise Cendrars , the writer , saw Modigliani let fall a twenty-franc note one evening when a well-known pauper came in to sit at the next table . |
| 2 | A door at the end of the hall opened , and Arkhina came in attended by a serving woman . |
| 3 | He had scarcely settled to work when his stepmother came in followed by a sad-eyed little King Charles spaniel who immediately began exploring the corners of the room . |
| 4 | All of them failed , from the disastrous Purko Sheep Ranch , where the sheep died because the ranch was at too high an altitude , to the four big grazing schemes which went under in the drought of the early 1960s , when people from outside the schemes , under pressure of need , came in to graze on the permanent waters and massive erosion occurred . |
| 5 | The last man in , John Bendall had already injured himself when we were fielding and he also came in to bat with a runner . |
| 6 | He came in running like a fat sow , his uniform 's half burned off his fucking back . ’ |
| 7 | This morning Betty — my cleaner — came in bursting with the news that there was a brass plate outside . |
| 8 | His parachute was caught by turbulence as he came in to land on a school playing field . |
| 9 | The small jet came in to land with a rush at Marco Polo Airport and , brakes squealing a protest , taxied clear of the runway . |
| 10 | They came in to land in a snowscape , the lights along the thin ribbon of recently cleared runway coming into view and stretching out in front of them as the Seneca descended on its final approach . |
| 11 | A few days after that Norman Prince , the founder of the Lafayette , flying long and late in an attempt to avenge Rockwell , hit a high-tension cable as he came in to land in the dark . |
| 12 | When a pupil came in asking for a special book , he would rush and find it before Mr Crangle . |
| 13 | When Helen came in to help with the spaying operation she looked rather nervous . |
| 14 | Just before she turned the sign on the door round to read ‘ Closed ’ , a woman came in to look at the toys . |
| 15 | Er many members of the public took advantage of the offer of the more detailed appraisal er and indeed came in to look at the detailed consultants reports . |