Example sentences of "a [noun] came in " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know when Beecham was conducting it once a trumpeter came in early in one of the big silences : the kind of catastrophe you can do nothing about . |
| 2 | After several days of this we were rather bored with the whole thing until one afternoon a yacht came in under sail and anchored near us . |
| 3 | After a few minutes a barman came in and asked everyone to move outside with the other hotel guests who had been evacuated from the building . |
| 4 | Hankin added : ‘ If a bid came in for Prudhoe , or any other player , we would consider it . |
| 5 | One day a bloke came in wearing a rubber mac , a real Wimbledon Common regular by the look of him . |
| 6 | A girl came in and tried to haggle over a nineteenth-century vase , but Rachaela told her Mrs Mantini fixed the prices fairly and never reduced items . |
| 7 | I mean , what would you do if you were a lawyer and a boy came in and started yapping on about missing Wills like in some kid 's story ? |
| 8 | A footman came in and said : ‘ You look like you need a drink , mate . ’ |
| 9 | One day a guard came in with a bunch of roses . |
| 10 | If only we could know for sure , but at that moment a guard came in and took away the television . |
| 11 | A houseman came in first in a pure white coat , |
| 12 | And yet … there was a night , long ago now , when a mist came in off the sea ; we slept uneasily , then woke in the dark , to hear the cold whine of sea magic in the air . |
| 13 | When a pupil came in asking for a special book , he would rush and find it before Mr Crangle . |
| 14 | The just before Christmas a teenager came in with his friends and asked for a book ‘ honestly ’ listing all the mistakes in the Bible . |
| 15 | One Saturday a woman came in and took me to a big room where there was another woman with two children . |
| 16 | A woman came in and said perhaps we would rather have soup . |
| 17 | ‘ The story goes , ’ I told him , as we drove up to Llanberis after meeting at Bangor station , ‘ that you were in the Radziel and a woman came in collecting for charity . |
| 18 | They did a crafty one — one came out and a woman came in , very nice , telling him he had to face up to his responsibilities , she said she 'd help us , they 'd get him a job , they 'd pay his rent and he had to move in with me for a month 's trial . |
| 19 | Where I worked in the university , if a woman came in covered in bruises , no one would say anything , although we all knew what had happened . |
| 20 | Just before she turned the sign on the door round to read ‘ Closed ’ , a woman came in to look at the toys . |
| 21 | During arithmetic a dog came in . |
| 22 | After some hours a train came in and fortunately we found a carriage , packed with refugees of course , but it had a lavatory at the end of the corridor . |
| 23 | A train came in , going to another place she had never heard of , Hanger Lane . |
| 24 | People surged forward , nearly knocking them over as a train came in . |
| 25 | So it was quite a simple job and of course , as yard inspector at Street , my job was to see that the s platforms were always When one train left you had to put the other train in to get the shunters to shunt another train into the empty platform you see , for the next the next shunt and that and if a train came in from Carstairs you see , you seen that the pilot and phoned the signalman , let the pilot into number five dock . |
| 26 | I was ready f if a traveller came in , I 'd be ready for him . |
| 27 | But nobody cared for the stones he told And he sat all alone of a night Until one day a traveller came in from the cold A sorry and miserable sight . |
| 28 | One agent in North 's employ remembered being over at CIA headquarters one day when a call came in to him from North , ‘ and everybody in the room gave me a dirty look . ’ |
| 29 | And then , at four-thirty when she was just contemplating going off shift , a call came in on the red phone that made her feel cold inside . |
| 30 | As Mummy hurried away , a man came in with Angela 's broomstick . |