Example sentences of "came in [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came in as a young teacher , enthusiastic , full of new ideas but you soon find that the old attitudes rub off on you , and so you end up thinking , ‘ Oh , why am I doing this ? |
| 2 | It was often her task to carry it up to the little sitting-room , followed by Mary from the village , who came in as a daily maid , bearing a silver jug of hot water and matches to light all the lamps . |
| 3 | I thought you said there 'd be no problem if I came in on a six-month permit ? ’ |
| 4 | He came in with a long stride , with head erect , and calm authoritative eyes . |
| 5 | Faldo just stayed in touch thanks to putts of 15 and 30 feet at the 14th and 16th for a round of 69 , while Ballesteros felt he had been robbed when he came in with a 68 . |
| 6 | Lyle , who has missed the cut twice in his only four European Tour appearances this year , came in with a 68 and declared himself well-satisfied . |
| 7 | Steve came in with a danish and a cup of coffee and I 'm thinking |
| 8 | One day Aileen came in with a black eye . |
| 9 | Owners , whose holiday brands include Sovereign , Enterprise and Falcon , had sought an alliance with German-owned Thomas Cook to cement its position in the competitive UK market , but fast-growing and highly-profitable Airtours came in with a rival bid to spark off weeks of rhetoric and activity which finally ended yesterday . |
| 10 | The sea came in with a weightless rush and trickled between dry rocks . |
| 11 | But when no-one came in with a firm bid Beck sent a video compilation of all Dublin 's goals to every First Division club . |
| 12 | The archaeology proposal came in with a standard white , upper-class male name attached to it , a safe BBC voice , and I said , ‘ Lovely idea , ca n't stand the presenter . |
| 13 | Lillywhite , from Walton-on-Thames , started the day with just 20 seconds to spare over Norway 's Ole Simensen , who jumped from ninth to second place when he came in with a four-strong leading group in Liverpool City Centre . |
| 14 | ‘ I came in with a bad knee and it just started getting worse , ’ the 13th-seeded Lendl said . |
| 15 | She came in with a further two bottles of champagne and took them , blue eyes shining , to Alfred , assembling the ingredients for the Rognons à la Didier . |
| 16 | According to my spy ( who came in with a cold ) , BUPA plan to send a team over there shortly . |
| 17 | There was another one came in with a little bit of a strain yesterday morning , so what 've done this morning , we 've just had a collective training session and we 've told them to report at quarter to eleven in the morning . |
| 18 | When we started rehearsing , we arrived at the cello 's first entry and he came in with a dreadful slow grumbling noise . |
| 19 | Close to dawn she forced herself into bed , but she was still wide-eyed when the maid came in with an early-morning cup of tea . |
| 20 | Ilse came in with an orange-coloured book . |
| 21 | So I came in with an American-made guitar ( the T-60 ) in a case that retailed for 350 dollars at a time when a Les Paul was 1,000 dollars and a Stratocaster over 800 . |
| 22 | So I came in with an American-made guitar ( the T-60 ) in a case that retailed for 350 dollars at a time when a Les Paul was 1,000 dollars and a Stratocaster over 800 . |
| 23 | The recorder came in with an adagio-like slowness and gravity , momentarily wobbled off-key , then recovered . |
| 24 | Lio ! rt came in for a second run , but slower this time to allow for the big man 's unexpected agility . |
| 25 | The eight men , from St John 's College , came in for a severe dressing down from the police after they bared all on a two-mile row down the River Isis . |
| 26 | After four weeks every group had interviewed four of the original subjects , plus others who came in for a single session , and they had all accumulated a great amount of material . |
| 27 | This meant that the married women left at home came in for a large share of the work about the croft . |
| 28 | Here and elsewhere , the police also came in for a fair amount of criticism — Punch portrayed London 's genial giants Gog and Magog dressed as policeman , defending themselves from the wrath of the respectable populace — and there were perfectly sound reasons for such discontent . |
| 29 | Specifically , in the case of Anthony Miers , the Royal Navy submariner who finally came in for a teeny bit of criticism over his methods of disposing of German seamen who rather inconveniently surrendered . |
| 30 | He went out and Sisteradmission-ward came in for a short while , and we reconstructed the story . |