Example sentences of "came in [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | By 1971 , hair had grown to collar length and the final phase came in as the smooth . |
| 2 | Alain came in as the doctor 's car left the house and he stood at the foot of the bed and regarded her sternly . |
| 3 | You saw in fact the lady as you came in about the same time as you came in who does that . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Norman came in under the wild-card foreign invitee blanket with nary a victory to his name in the past year . |
| 7 | A fair number of final bids which came in under the reserve price were later accepted . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The hours passed , daylight faded , and the sounds of a warm September evening came in through the open window . |
| 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 | She came in through the corridor , shuffling in her thick black clothes . |
| 13 | She turned as two uniformed policemen came in through the main entrance . |
| 14 | The inrush of fresh air came in through the room , circulated , inter mixed with the vapour laden air in the lounge . |
| 15 | Spittals ' hands glowed from the diligent rubbing he was applying to them as she came in through the door at ten o'clock . |
| 16 | I could relive it every time I came in through the front door . |
| 17 | Devon and Cornwall 's canals connected agricultural areas with the goods they needed which came in through the many small ports . |
| 18 | There were no windows and only a trickle of light came in through the door behind him . |
| 19 | People and cars always came in through the big double gates . |
| 20 | The smell of the flowers came in through the open windows of the bus . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The tiny river sounds came in through the open hatches . |
| 24 | She was hanging up the jacket of her plum-coloured suit when Rebecca came in through the outer door . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ I came in through the door . ’ |
| 29 | The boy came in through the back carrying Russell 's blanket roll and carbine and put them down on the passenger bench . |
| 30 | Her father came in through the back door . |