Example sentences of "come in " 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 | He dismissively described how this man had ‘ come in , taken the material provided , and then had written a childish and critical book on the police , out of which he got a Ph.D . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | But that policy has come in for sharp criticism from monetarists who insist that it has fed the rapid expansion of broad money supply , M4 , and inflamed inflationary pressures . |
| 6 | A spate of airline buyouts , which has touched every major US carrier during the last six months , has come in for growing criticism because of the heavy debt it loads on the companies . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | By that date Moscow had provided a mere three and a half million roubles , and one million had come in from other gubernii . |
| 9 | True , the first and perhaps the second blackmail payments had come in before he was obliged to pay for his teeth at the beginning of June , but he had blithely paid two hundred and fifty for them in cash when the demand came . |
| 10 | Burden had just come in , damp and disgruntled , when Wexford erupted bull-like from the lift . |
| 11 | More people had come in , well-dressed men and women , shedding vast overcoats , ordering wine , food , lighting cigars … a violinist , young , blonde , blue eyed , dressed improbably as a gipsy woman was playing a tzigane , accompanied by a pianist dressed even more improbably as a gipsy man . |
| 12 | The chef 's come in . ’ |
| 13 | Mr Gonzalez has also come in for criticism from within his own party . |
| 14 | Mr Gonzalez has also come in for criticism from within his own party . |
| 15 | McLeish looked thoughtfully at Jennifer Morgan who had come in and was considering her father with what he was startled to recognize as dislike . |
| 16 | OVER the past two years , Swedish investors have come in from the cold . |
| 17 | Defence policy , too , has come in for complaint . |
| 18 | Only a party bigot would claim that they had somehow come in with the Conservative Government three years earlier . |
| 19 | ‘ You 'd better come in , then . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ You 'd better come in , ’ said the man . |
| 21 | ‘ You 'd better come in , then , ’ said Philip 's Mum . |
| 22 | If the literary establishment had thought to compare notes they would have realized that every male aura on and off Fleet Street had come in for a bashing . |
| 23 | If only she had come in shouting ‘ What 's this ? ’ and chucked the lot at him , he would have felt something had been achieved . |
| 24 | He must either barge the door down or make one more supreme effort to leave the way he had come in . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I was debating whether to try to stop the bleeding first or to leave him in his uncertain state while I found a way out , trusting he would n't totally pass out , when I heard the main door creak open directly above our heads ; the way Harry and I had come in . |
| 27 | ‘ You 'd better come in , then , ’ Tremayne offered , shrugging . |
| 28 | The last letter , bearing the date of 8 June , read : ‘ My heart is very full this evening — a letter from you has just come in , and that brings you even closer to me . |
| 29 | Understandably , this presumption has come in for a great deal of criticism . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , well , ’ he said finally , ‘ you had better come in . ’ |