Example sentences of "[noun sg] come in [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Corrugated iron , cardboard , paper and sand were in constant motion as a wind came in gusts off the Pacific .
2 She was naked when she was killed , so no blood came in contact with her clothes .
3 This action comes in response to the House of Commons agricultural select committee which , seven months prior to the publication of its report , urged that there should be more research into " mad cow " disease .
4 The decision came in response to an acute fuel shortage which worsened during December .
5 The decision came in response to an acute fuel shortage which worsened during December .
6 The most visible foreign policy progress came in relations with Japan .
7 The campaign came in response to a spate of fatal stabbings and involved extra police officers being drafted in to patrol late-night trouble spots .
8 Fortunately help came in time on that particular day .
9 WC apps : 2 Cameroun 's big moment came in Spain in 1982 when they held Peru , Poland and Italy to draws and went out of the tournament proud of their unbeaten record .
10 The amendment came in response to criticisms by six of the seven recently created opposition parties that the first version was weighted in favour of the Social Democratic Republican Party ( PRDS ) , formed under the sponsorship of President Moaouia Ould Sidi Taya ) .
11 Menem 's announcement came in response to a request by the World Jewish Congress , some of whose members he had invited to Buenos Aires to witness the signature of the decree .
12 The Welsh Secretary 's announcement came in response to a question from Clwyd North West MP Rod Richards .
13 His first move came in Rome in 1959 when he proposed regular meetings of the six foreign ministers , backed up by a permanent secretariat .
14 Jess — her blunt nose coming in contact with Samson 's hand as she coiled round — bit him .
15 She said she never saw Newton kick the other player in the face , and she never saw anyone 's boot come in contact with Mr Hallam 's face .
16 We were just sitting down to our dinner when the chief Druid came in sight with his begging bowl and Tony got under the bed .
17 But she avoided Matthew as much as she could and had no wish to come in contact with Bunny Chaloner .
18 The attack came in response to massive Azerbaijani shelling of Stepanakert with Grad rockets — proscribed weapons of mass destruction — and attacks against Armenian-populated villages in the north-east .
19 The statement came in response to Dragon 's broadside two days ago at Drayton Asia 's ‘ disappointing ’ investment performance .
20 As soon as the line came in contact with water , the fibres separated .
21 An answer came in talks in Paris on January 20th .
22 The answer comes in part of our reading this morning .
23 International representations in athletics came in abundance with Ainsley Bennett , Mike MacFarlane and Daley Thompson and football went through a veritable upsurge in the 1978–9 season with the likes of Viv Anderson , Laurie Cunningham , Cyrille Regis , Garry Thompson providing the vanguard of a train of black first-division players .
24 To a considerable extent manufacturing expansion over the first three-quarters of the eighteenth century came in response to increasing demand , with overseas markets substantially supplementing the opportunities at home .
25 PR may work well in times of prosperity but the real test for a constitutional system comes in times of turbulence , social change , and economic slumps .
26 An electron can be given enough energy to break out of its bond if the frequency of the radiation is high enough — quantum theory tells us that , as with atomic vibrations , the energy in a light wave comes in increments of its frequency multiplied by Planck 's constant .
27 His Lordship smites the water with King Arthur 's sword , all the company are still , a rumble sucking noise comes in front of the opening of the grotto the water as if boiling and to the horror of all the company both on the water and on the shore scream with fright , appearing as though from the depth of hell arose a ghastly coffin covered with slime and other things .
28 The evocative sentence comes in fact from a little book called La Cuisine en Plein Air by that most adorable of French gastronomes , Dr Edouard de Pomiane .
29 J Is for Judgement comes in hardback at the same time .
30 A vehement reaction against this view came in Syria in the decade after his death .
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