Example sentences of "came in [prep] the [noun] " 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 | Dr Tariq , frail and looking as though the gentle zephyr that came in off the Tigris might flatten him , could muster a savage temper when attacked . |
| 4 | She came in through the corridor , shuffling in her thick black clothes . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Spittals ' hands glowed from the diligent rubbing he was applying to them as she came in through the door at ten o'clock . |
| 7 | There were no windows and only a trickle of light came in through the door behind him . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I came in through the door . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The boy came in through the back carrying Russell 's blanket roll and carbine and put them down on the passenger bench . |
| 12 | The inrush of fresh air came in through the room , circulated , inter mixed with the vapour laden air in the lounge . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As the smoke cleared and the dust settled , two fighter planes came in over the fields and circled the remains of the barn . |
| 15 | It was still warm during the day , and the sun came in over the trees of the forest outside the camp . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ I only came in on the red , raw minute , ’ she said , ‘ so you 'll excuse me , madam . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | So , as Jonathan Miller put it , ‘ man came in on the back of the machine ’ . |
| 20 | David McIvor came in on the blind-side and Ian Smith was called up when Graham Marshall injured his knee . |
| 21 | Yeah , cos we was there in the August , they were n't , we moved in , in the July , there , and the girls were , Matthew was just four , cos just as we moved in our dad took Matthew to Hungary with him , it was like , it was like they were going on the following Wednesday , and he told me on the Friday , he came in on the Friday night , they planned , it was our dad , Crystal and Danielle , Crystal and Danielle , but she said even if I go out in the middle of . |
| 22 | He came in on the Tube as usual , and walked the last quarter-mile . |
| 23 | Only a sixth of Paris 's milk came in on the Nord network , the biggest importer being Etat . |
| 24 | Kenny Logan switched from wing to fullback and Tony Stanger came in on the wing . |
| 25 | ‘ Came in on the morning commercial flight at dawn . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He could see the grey ruffled silk of the sea on the left as they banked and came in towards the airport . |
| 29 | Helen came in towards the end , and , with no outside calls for her to go to , Joanna looked rather depressed . |
| 30 | 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 . |