Example sentences of "come into the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I found that so many new people had come into the scheme at the last moment that I was now four from the end .
2 No new blood had come into the affairs of de Chavigny for years : everywhere Edouard found stagnation and apathy .
3 Since then the homes of several well-known authors have come into the Trust 's care .
4 So what we would do then is identify the fact that we 've come into the building and therefore alerted everybody that lo and behold down the corridor are coming police officers .
5 Penelope had taken note of the two quite personable looking men who had just come into the hall ! and were standing looking about them with some bewilderment , as if uncertain what they ought to do .
6 This is the first time I 've come into the Unit , you know , Barbara !
7 According to his informant , the arms had come into the quarter the previous day .
8 I have read carefully the reasons given for the record levels of inward investment that has come into the United Kingdom , including Wales .
9 And when he come into the pub he hears the village lads singing along with the machine and he has a go himself and gets to talking with everyone .
10 Constable Perkins , who had been enjoying himself at the fête , ‘ patrolling ’ the exhibits , had only by chance come into the Cookery Tent at the vital moment .
11 And politics of a sort come into the fray with David 's contributions : ‘ Seen And Not Heard ’ comparing family values to government ; ‘ City Poison ’ assessing urban decline ; ‘ Wanderlust ’ presenting Johnny Vagrant , made hollow by the system .
12 The lien of a solicitors ' firm over clients ' papers pending payment of its costs will not be lost by a change in membership so long as the papers have come into the firm 's possession before the change : they can not ( subject always to any specific arrangements with the client to the contrary ) lawfully be retained after such a change in respect of a debt falling due before that event .
13 Luke had come into the kitchen with the hat .
14 Several times , Carrie had come into the kitchen and found them giggling together .
15 The fact he had not come into the kitchen meant he felt unwanted , and this brought Faye in with , " And there is no place we can talk in this house now .
16 If , for example , old man Jordan had come into the kitchen at that moment , Wycliffe might have seen him in the mirror ; but what of it ?
17 ‘ Is his name really that ? ’ said Penelope , who had just come into the kitchen .
18 On social policies , our record has been appalling : on that , I agree strongly with the points made by my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition and by my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Small Heath ( Mr. Howell ) , who has just come into the Chamber , who strongly criticised the Government 's record on social policies .
19 She has come into the Chamber in the past five minutes .
20 Would hon. Members who are below the Gangway come into the Chamber or leave , please ?
21 The one thing its citizens have in common is that God has come into the life of each one and given a love for him and for each other which no human or political institution can ever produce .
22 The court hearing , which lasted 23 minutes and took place in chambers , was told by Edwards that a report prepared by Knighton 's accountants — believed to show confidential details about players ' salaries and contracts , as well as other sensitive financial information — had ‘ come into the possession of at least one outsider ’ .
23 For a period of the late 16th century it appears to have come into the possession of the Earls of Leicester but eventually came back into the full possession of Trinity College , which remained lord of the manor until quite recent times .
24 She , too , remembered the day he had come into the yard and cheeked her father , telling him he could choose his name from Smith , Jones , or Robinson .
25 He had come into the centre that morning complaining of indigestion .
26 All that means is that the original form was present in the rest of the Rift Valley during this period , never went extinct , and has now come into the lake again and has either made extinct , or in some other way swamped out the local form .
27 ‘ But I saw your husband come into the tent while you were over at the tombola , ’ Mrs Doran said to Mrs Yardley .
28 The Philistines ' camp is close enough for them to hear the noise , and when they learn its meaning they are afraid and say , ‘ A god has come into the camp . ’
29 The first thing he had done when he had come into the apartment had been to turn off the heating system , and then he had opened the window in his bedroom and the window in the sparsely furnished living room .
30 On the evidence of inscriptions recorded in the volume , it appears to have been in the possession of Amelia , Lady Lovat , in the 17th century , and John , 1st Duke of Atholl , in the 18th century : it seems to have come into the ownership of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe in the 19th century , and from there to have passed to the Wigan Free Library .
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