Example sentences of "came in and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He came in and went out again . ’ |
| 2 | A dark , cowled figure came in and went up to stand in the Lady Chapel . |
| 3 | The two girls hugely enjoyed this honour until the Roberts came in and glowered at them . |
| 4 | Even the three debutants came in and played like never before . |
| 5 | Almost a town in itself , Dunlaoghaire was some miles from the centre of Dublin , a big harbour where the mail boat came in and left every day for Holyhead bringing the holiday visitors . |
| 6 | She 'd ignored them long enough , glaring at their dusty little windows on the bottom stair as she came in and left . |
| 7 | Then we watched the names being washed out as the sea came in and felt sad . |
| 8 | Sergeant Bourne came in and hovered until Wycliffe spoke to him . |
| 9 | However , just before the point of order was raised , a group of Labour Members came in and raised , on spurious points of order , allegations against the Secretary of State for Health arising from matters that did not appear in the report . |
| 10 | Anyway , Benguiat made up to him and gave him a big kiss and then the next day things got bad again because Parkinson was going to in room number two above this floor to sort out his slides and Benguiat had been in there and evidently he had just decided to tuck his shirt in and loosen his trousers and while he was tucking his shirt in Parkinson came in and says aha , caught you with your pants down , and Benguiat storms out of the room . |
| 11 | At this point Sergeant Aitken came in and muttered something in the Inspector 's ear . |
| 12 | A young man , dark , short , burly , in a navy guernsey and jeans and gumboots , came in and lifted the coal bags into the Land-Rover beside my cases . |
| 13 | Crowds of people went out and a young clergyman came in and ordered a pint of bitter . |
| 14 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |
| 15 | She still had n't found an answer when the housekeeper came in and served the first course . |
| 16 | There was a brief flurry as Graham 's secretary came in and dispensed drinks , while the Old Man teased her kindly , and she giggled , and then they were all sitting looking at one another in silence . |
| 17 | Sarah 's young sister Kate came in and offered to do her step dancing to one of the records . |
| 18 | Because some people came in and had offered sixty , that 's what I was told , the last lot that came in had offered sixty . |
| 19 | The nice one — who was a dead ringer for the compère in Hi-Di-Hi — came in and said , Well Glen , we 've thought about it , we 're not going to charge you with handling stolen goods . |
| 20 | Finally , a protest from a woman who says she had just finished Helen Bullock 's ‘ oh-so-true ’ article when her husband came in and said : ’ ‘ There seems to be a bit of toast on the floor in the other room ’ . |
| 21 | However , one afternoon perhaps two weeks after our conversation in my pantry , I was doing something in the library when Miss Kenton came in and said : |
| 22 | A woman came in and said perhaps we would rather have soup . |
| 23 | I could n't find a way round it and when someone came in and said , ‘ that sounds great , but can you get me a pure sound where I can actually recognise what guitar is being played , whether it 's clean or distorted ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Two women came in and said we have some bad news for you . |
| 25 | After we returned to Pinewood Studios there was a knock at my dressing room door one day , and Trevor came in and said , ‘ Come to my dressing room . ’ |
| 26 | Presently a man with greying hair and specs came in and said he was the doctor who was going to remove the polyps . |
| 27 | Klaus Kabelitz , duty manager at the Inn on the Park , said : ‘ Police came in and said they had received an alert with a bona fide code . |
| 28 | The next day Mel came in and said , ‘ Actually , I do n't think it 's such a great idea … . |
| 29 | And then Luke came in and said the fire was fine and that he 'd bashed the cushions up a bit , to make it all OK for them . |
| 30 | Oh yeah , yeah , where the furniture was concerned yeah , we only liked it if people came in and said oh my god what have you done now , you know . |