Example sentences of "come in from " in BNC.

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1 Otherwise whoever it was would probably have come in from the corridor .
2 Look at all the billions that have come in from North Sea oil and privatization .
3 Said his friend-cum-mentor , Irving Layton , in looking back over the period , ‘ I had a very sharp feeling in the early fifties that poetry in Canada had come in from the cold and was starting to gain momentum . ’
4 Of the new ‘ Nepmen ’ , two were Jews who had come in from some other guberniia , and the other three all had military experience but little capital in goods or cash .
5 By that date Moscow had provided a mere three and a half million roubles , and one million had come in from other gubernii .
6 OVER the past two years , Swedish investors have come in from the cold .
7 Then , when the horse is brought out of the stable , instead of just walking quietly along ( which it would if it had just come in from the paddock ) , it is jumping out of its skin , ready to spook and shy at anything , nostrils dilated , eyes bulging , and tail hoisted high .
8 The puppy was probably encouraged to jump up when he was small and everyone thought it was quite fun , but now he is large , and has probably just come in from a swim in the pool and Aunty is standing there in her Sunday best .
9 Ray had come in from the country bank and we sat with Margaret through the short service .
10 Information has come in from readers , amused , serious and knowledgeable .
11 Significantly , the greeting trill is normally done when they are on the move , usually when they have come in from outside and are about to move off towards the place where they expect food to be waiting .
12 It was quite soon after the terrible motor accident that had crippled him for life , and she had just come in from the garden with a bunch of flowers for him .
13 On the eve of her sailing , she learned from a spokeswoman of the Queen 's that news had come in from Cyprus : that Diniz Vasquez her husband 's young kinsman was trapped in Famagusta .
14 The train had come in from the sidings and stood in the station , warm and pulsing , its engines reattached , the horses and grooms on board and fresh foods and ice loaded .
15 She had come in from work one evening to find her mother and father dead in each other 's arms .
16 His stage set , along with the thumping music , flashing lights , and dry-ice clouds that go with it , had just come in from Scotland , and was due to head south as soon as we television camp-followers had done our reports in front of it .
17 He had come in from his dressing room and Eileen was waiting , dressed and ready for the dinner party .
18 Since covering the restoration of the Benson Gustav in the July issue , much feedback has come in from our ever-vigilant readers .
19 She opened the door before Massingham had time to ring , her handsome shield-shaped face composed under the light brown fringe , and looking in her shirt , slacks and leather jerkin as elegantly informal as if she had just come in from a country walk .
20 It was what should have happened to him when he had come in from Athens , and had n't .
21 The senior man , who had come in from Los Angeles to E.B.I.H.Q. after Erlich had left Washington , he 'd be everybody 's friend , he 'd have them eating out of his hand down at Counter-Terrorism , he 'd probably take out citizenship .
22 The majority of domestic workers are young women without any formal education who have come in from the countryside .
23 He wants me to have some tinned pears which have come in from South Africa .
24 ‘ This report has just come in from the Environments Officer .
25 Recalled the team of copy humans who had come in from Mars to kill him .
26 It was a relief when Stephen Copley , the Senior Chemist , arrived just before ten , bustling in as usual , his rubicund face with its tonsure and fringe of black curly hair glistening as if he had come in from the sun .
27 When we heard about , when we heard about the faxes that had come in from all around the world .
28 Apart from that , though , the whole crew might have just come in from Ellis Island Caduta herself was clearly the queen bee here .
29 Over 40 per cent of Preston 's immigrants came from within a 10-mile radius and only about 30 per cent had come in from more than 30 miles away .
30 A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time .
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