Example sentences of "[noun] have come in [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prince has come in for a lot of criticism from the UN and the West for spending most of the past few months in China . |
| 2 | This beggar had come in to the fitting shop , corner at the back corner , where he should n't have been . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , Sun has come in for no small amount of criticism in pursuing what is often strictly an ‘ invented here ’ approach to technology solutions , at the expense of making some pragmatic marketing decisions . |
| 4 | Ray had come in from the country bank and we sat with Margaret through the short service . |
| 5 | What 's happened is , of course , that as the costs have fallen and the micros have come in through the door so they 're very much smaller , erm it all becomes possible for the whole of society and not for a tiny elite . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | JACQUES Delors has come in for a lot of flak for the collapse of the Gatt world trade talks . |
| 9 | If Lili had come in by the back door it had been very late indeed . |
| 10 | OVER the past two years , Swedish investors have come in from the cold . |
| 11 | However , the Green Paper has come in for a variety of criticisms and there is little evidence that its recommendations will be acted upon in the short- or medium-term . |
| 12 | It would be a superior tramp to have come in with a key . |
| 13 | An elderly female novelist had come in at a quarter to six and Penelope had found herself trying to explain why her latest novel had not been reviewed in the Sunday Telegraph , why it had not been advertised more widely , why copies had not been displayed on the bookstall of a friend 's local station , why it had not yet been reprinted . |
| 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 | All the lights are up and cold air has come in with the officials . |
| 16 | More than 50 orphaned or injured otters from all over Britain have come in to the trust 's rehabilitation centre in south-west Scotland . |
| 17 | But one of them is a copy-editor , I think that is what he is called , and he told me that he thought the item had come in from a friend of Leila 's . ’ |
| 18 | Just before airtime , a story had come in on a drug bust : space was hastily made for this . |
| 19 | Understandably , this presumption has come in for a great deal of criticism . |