Example sentences of "they come in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is usual for them to come in two equal length pieces to fit a central ferrule . |
| 2 | Being another only child , and as my father 's job had kept my parents in Singapore for the last two years , I now spent most of my holidays with my aunt and cousin , timing them to come in Dickie 's school holidays . |
| 3 | I doubt if they would in this well I would n't want them to come in the fog |
| 4 | Two of them came in the third round . |
| 5 | A batch of them came in this morning . ’ |
| 6 | Two of them came in the first half as Bolton tore Watford to shreds . |
| 7 | Ace could see them coming in boiling waves through the sick-bay door . |
| 8 | We did n't like them coming in the police station , they used to come into our parade room where our men were having food , and you can imagine them coming in a bit lousy and so on . |
| 9 | They did ask him , however , and they came in hundreds for the purpose . |
| 10 | They came in all shapes and sizes ; and all of them claimed to have become permanent partners . |
| 11 | They came in right at the end of the period I spent working there I never owned one myself — although I 'd sometimes wear one in the shop I thought they were stupid . |
| 12 | ‘ They were afraid to put their heads out and when they did they came in a whole convoy , shooting at women and children . ’ |
| 13 | As proof , he says 95 per cent of Soul 2/UFO 's crowd ‘ leave in the same state they came in ( ie , not drunk ) . |
| 14 | They came in the form of series of explosions on a far greater scale even than any of the preceding ones , and greater than anything that man has experienced before or since . |
| 15 | They came in the windie . |
| 16 | I told ye , they came in the windie . ’ |
| 17 | They came in four pairs from the only four directions from which the farm could be assailed . |
| 18 | They came in small units , sometimes settling on deserted Romano-British sites , elsewhere using new ground . |
| 19 | Tim Laurence , tallest player in the Durham University College squad and as tough as they came in a challenge , sported his hair above his ears , and at lectures his tie would always be knotted properly , his jacket and trousers immaculate . |
| 20 | THIN , fat , young , old — they came in all shapes and sizes as the TODAY Cellulite Roadshow was launched yesterday . |
| 21 | They came in abundance ; the reason being , I suspect , that there was so much more to do than just lie on a beach , for which , indeed , the first requirement is sun . |
| 22 | Useless to tell them to book early for the peak period : they came in droves . |
| 23 | When they came in sight of the house it was to see Ellen Jebeau standing on the terrace , and when Martin drew the horse to a standstill at the foot of the steps she was there to meet them . |
| 24 | They came in their best clothes as if it were a Sunday from the days before the church was closed . |
| 25 | ‘ They came in a military truck . |
| 26 | They came in many shapes , being made from collective desire , which fact seemed to move Sartori profoundly . |
| 27 | A century earlier , in Shakespeare 's day , that world had been a mysterious place ; Othello could tell his travellers ' tales of the men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders and , while the references to Bermuda in The Tempest were up-to-the-minute , they came in a play that was a collection of fairy stories . |
| 28 | They came in a singing swarm . |
| 29 | They came in a long winding string of wagons , horses , barking dogs , dancing children and donkeys . |
| 30 | They came in massive great big humongous boxes packed with polystyrene actually . |