Example sentences of "came in [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 By 1971 , hair had grown to collar length and the final phase came in as the smooth .
2 You saw in fact the lady as you came in about the same time as you came in who does that .
3 A fair number of final bids which came in under the reserve price were later accepted .
4 Norman came in under the wild-card foreign invitee blanket with nary a victory to his name in the past year .
5 I could relive it every time I came in through the front door .
6 Devon and Cornwall 's canals connected agricultural areas with the goods they needed which came in through the many small ports .
7 She was hanging up the jacket of her plum-coloured suit when Rebecca came in through the outer door .
8 There was a layer of grey-blue smoke in the room at about shoulder level , and a big wave in it , probably produced by me as I came in through the double doors of the back porch .
9 Back home , he dreamt , he filled the whole flat with buckets of earth , even filled soup dishes and the kettle and the wineglasses with soil , and spent hours watering them and moving them carefully around every day , carrying them from room to room so that they would be struck in turn by whatever sunshine came in through the different windows at different times of the day , making sure they were kept warm .
10 He looked up when Donna Frizzell came in through the back door , and was startled to see that her hat was awry and her makeup smudged beyond repair .
11 He came in through the back door on Lily 's afternoon out .
12 Her father came in through the back door .
13 People and cars always came in through the big double gates .
14 The hours passed , daylight faded , and the sounds of a warm September evening came in through the open window .
15 The smell of the flowers came in through the open windows of the bus .
16 The tiny river sounds came in through the open hatches .
17 A little breeze came in through the open window and set the hanging light swinging , so that her face was now shadowed , now glistening pale in the electric glare .
18 She turned as two uniformed policemen came in through the main entrance .
19 Seve Ballesteros , who had shared the overnight lead on 67 , was making no further progress and was still five under par as he came in on the closing holes .
20 And then , at four-thirty when she was just contemplating going off shift , a call came in on the red phone that made her feel cold inside .
21 good recruiting period and we had er thirty o thirty one I think it was or thirty four new members who came in at the general election .
22 He left Helen and went to have a bath and in the cold steamy bathroom there came to him this vision of a distant unreal Helen looking — well , radiant was the unexpected word that came to mind — looking not her usual self at all in some frock that glowed and billowed and rustled as she came in at the front door late , pink-cheeked , a touch dishevelled and greeted by the stone wall of Dorothy 's disapproval .
23 Now , obviously I 'm not going to talk about profits from the T V division just now , because Thames only came in at the half year , and we 're not including any profits from B Sky B in the half year , but it 's likely that we 'll take some de-loan stock interest in at the year end .
24 Lyn switched off the set as Stephen came in at the back door .
25 Well as you know er to be a basic rate taxpayer , you 're paying twenty five pence in the pound , apart from the er the new rate you know the first two thousand five hundred you get at twenty percent , which came in at the last budget .
26 But Anna did not talk to him , because Sarah came in at the same time .
27 Edward came in at the french window and stared blankly at his younger sister .
28 And you the wee envelopes that came in with the black edging on them .
29 J. Chapman , Sledmere Drive , Acklam , Middlesbrough : I was a final year pharmacy student in Sunderland and I was setting up apparatus for a chemistry experiment , when another student came in with the sad news that the King had died .
30 I had n't intended to speak on the external affairs section , but the discussion had widened so much that I came in with the attached remarks .
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