Example sentences of "came in at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In the morning the sun came in at the window and woke me .
2 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 .
3 Pensions for the aged came in at the beginning of the twentieth century .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 I remember somebody came in at the shop and says the Newminster School had been sent home , but where , which school 's that ?
7 He came in at the side door as though he knew his own way .
8 A new style of official entertaining came in at the Palace and still survives .
9 Deciding that his lead was comfortable enough to make a precautionary stop , Senna came in at the end of lap 48 .
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