Example sentences of "coming in [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The wife of a Sussex shopkeeper paid a woman 18d ( 7.5p ) in 1760 for coming in for two days , while Eden in 1794 reported that Lincolnshire women who went out to wash earned 6d to 8d ( 2.5 to 3p ) a day .
2 It is perhaps ironic that Neal — so critical of the selections of Revie and Robson — arrives back on the England scene at a time when Taylor is coming in for internal FA criticism for picking too many players .
3 Always considered a soft touch for your face , these products have currently been coming in for more scrutiny .
4 So at least there 's income coming in for three months at the rate of your salary .
5 Medical practices for instance two days beforehand before coming in for three days .
6 Other Administration figures had been calling for Bush to boycott the meeting , on the grounds that the US was coming in for excessive criticism .
7 Racecourse officials and race starter Capt Keith Brown could also face heavy fines after coming in for stiff criticism .
8 Aintree race course officials and National starter , Capt Keith Brown , could also face heavy fines after coming in for stiff criticism .
9 Once the Iraqis had pulled out , Kuwaiti vigilantes began combing the city for any Iraqi soldiers still hiding in the ruins and for anyone known or thought to have collaborated with the enemy , with Palestinians coming in for particular attention .
10 Erm I mean that was quite odd really , we had er quite a few white tenants coming in to one end of the building , erm just saying that , you know , We just ca n't cope with it any more .
11 Guns and Killing magazine currently rate her as the sixth most dangerous solo outlaw in the Americas , and she is the highest-ranked woman on the list , coming in at thirty-seven places above the Antarctic esperado Ice Kold Katie .
12 The club 's Jason Fry was undoubtedly the hero of the day , coming in at one rubber down to retrieve the match with a second string singles victory over Pavilion & Avenue Hove player Stephen Bloomfield .
13 What money did you have coming in at that time in fact ?
14 Shifts split up the family so that men would be coming in at all hours of the day , waiting for the bath-tin and the water and a woman to wash their backs .
15 But within minutes , confirmation was coming in on all sides : from our headquarters in London , from the teleprinter flashes , from national newspaper reporters stunned like us and now eager to hear what we thought about it .
16 So everything was coming in on different lines ?
17 All of a sudden as they like to do in Birmingham station , all the trains are coming in on different platforms from usual and and er delays here and do you know what it was ?
18 Expressing an opinion about the coming Windows NT-on-Pentium versus Unix-on-RISC war , Rhines thought that the Pentium , coming in with lower performance , still in pre-production volumes two years later than RISC processors , could never hope to catch up with RISC .
19 But Elsie Birdsall and Lavinia Thwaites kept coming in with all kinds of things to try and get me going — home-made soups , arrowroot , custards — and finally I began to mend a little .
20 Every season , there are scare reports of new viral problems coming in with ornamental fish .
21 Erm I most of the tapes that I 've had in the past have been recorded mono , erm and I 've needed a little doohickey to turn the erm output into mono as well cos it 's awfully off-putting spending seven and a half hours with the stuff coming in through one ear only .
22 Small flocks coming in from all directions joined the first arrivals until many thousands were stretched out in long parallel black lines .
23 The wolves have been coming in from eastern Europe where they fled to escape hunters and human population expansion .
24 I was able to talk to the German customer and the people on the floor , who are excessively worried about the number of people coming in from the East , not only East Germany but they 're very , very worried about people coming in from Eastern Europe , and secondly there was so much East European food that was for sale in Germany at very low prices and there 's food that used to go to the Soviet Union .
25 ‘ That was coming in from one side into It , but it was too moral for me — and it still is .
26 This may cut out a certain amount of light , but as there are two windows in one corner , the room has light coming in from two directions and is probably lighter than average anyway .
27 Courtaulds Aerospace hopes the UN order will lead to more business , and inquiries are also coming in from other news organisations .
28 Tufnell 's sixteenth over , there you 've just pushed it out and a number er Lewis coming in from backward point .
29 erm the roads are really not , not made to cope and so we have to try to get people coming in from different areas and different directions so that we do n't get everybody on one road and nobody on another .
30 I remember people coming in from funny countries — you know , Turkish people and Indian people , and Americans coming in to play oboe .
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