Example sentences of "come into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Constable Perkins , who had been enjoying himself at the fête , ‘ patrolling ’ the exhibits , had only by chance come into the Cookery Tent at the vital moment . |
| 2 | ‘ But I saw your husband come into the tent while you were over at the tombola , ’ Mrs Doran said to Mrs Yardley . |
| 3 | One story of how a local university academic had come into the police station to report his car missing , because he had forgotten where he had parked it , was repeated with relish ; while another which I told on my return from university satisfied these deeply held views of the ‘ intellectual 's ’ practical ineptitude : |
| 4 | Whether the parents planted a cedar tree in honour of the occasion , as another custom dictated ( girls only got a pine tree ! ) we do not know , but we can rest assured that the salutation-prayer was made with particular relish for this first son of a first son : ‘ A boy is born into the world ; a blessing has come into the world . ’ |
| 5 | Luke had come into the kitchen with the hat . |
| 6 | The true dyed-in-the-wool , deep down Conservatives may feel uncomfortably that the sacred word has come into the hands of unsuitable people ; including the Americans . |
| 7 | Turning round 3-9 behind , Selkirk suddenly recognised that again they had the beating of the title favourites , their match winner , Ian Ballantyne , having come into the side at short notice . |
| 8 | The court hearing , which lasted 23 minutes and took place in chambers , was told by Edwards that a report prepared by Knighton 's accountants — believed to show confidential details about players ' salaries and contracts , as well as other sensitive financial information — had ‘ come into the possession of at least one outsider ’ . |
| 9 | She was a very nice girl named Eugena , I think , and there were guards at the end of the hotel corridors , I remember giving them the slip and wandering around Khabarovsk on my own in a snowstorm , only to be told the next day that there was quite a bit of excitement in the city during the night because a Siberian tiger had come into the city and was wandering the streets at the same time I was ! |
| 10 | ‘ I wondered if she might have come into the office on the Saturday ? ’ |
| 11 | Mr Bennett has bravely included the ‘ piper at the gates of dawn ’ , the chapter when Rat and Mole come into the presence of Pan , the ultimate environmental deity . |
| 12 | The Philistines ' camp is close enough for them to hear the noise , and when they learn its meaning they are afraid and say , ‘ A god has come into the camp . ’ |
| 13 | And when they were come into the house , they saw the young child with Mary his mother , and fell down and worshipped him ; and when they had opened their treasures , they presented unto him gifts : gold and frankincense and myrrh . |
| 14 | This is the first time I 've come into the Unit , you know , Barbara ! |
| 15 | By the turn of the century , the partnership of Jane Mason and G. Smith ran the mill , but by 1901 it had come into the hands of James Joiner , who had bought it from Crawshay and Co . |
| 16 | Since then the homes of several well-known authors have come into the Trust 's care . |
| 17 | Christ has come into the world . |
| 18 | Anna had come into the world feet first and it took all the experience of Mrs Finklestein and the skill of the young Dr Arlen , who had come back at once with Denis , to turn the baby round without strangling the little thing with its own cord . |
| 19 | Two new acts had come into the show and they needed all the orchestra time they could get before going into Scranton . |
| 20 | I found that so many new people had come into the scheme at the last moment that I was now four from the end . |
| 21 | The lush farmlands of Combsburgh and the main trade of the little town had come into the hands of just a few landlords . |
| 22 | Interestingly , Harry had come into the game unusually late because he was already 24-years-old when chief scout Charlie Slade spotted him playing for . |
| 23 | Even politics , philosophy and science come into the same category . |
| 24 | Nothing happened , except that after a few minutes I checked that no one had come into the room to observe such antics ! |
| 25 | No new blood had come into the affairs of de Chavigny for years : everywhere Edouard found stagnation and apathy . |
| 26 | They in turn have by defeat lost their rule which has come into the hands of the British . |
| 27 | For a period of the late 16th century it appears to have come into the possession of the Earls of Leicester but eventually came back into the full possession of Trinity College , which remained lord of the manor until quite recent times . |
| 28 | If James Comyn can send in Tennyson 's ‘ Come into the Polling Booth , Maud ’ in support of Sinn Fein — sadly not a winner — then anything goes . |
| 29 | The idea was not of course original to Wordsworth , but his expression of it is unusually convincing ; and he is ahead of his time in his recognition of the ‘ subconscious mind ’ — this phrase had not yet come into the language , and Wordsworth 's ‘ workings of the spirit ’ — he has many other phrases — are not always seen to refer to this . |
| 30 | Formally , however , Sussex had come into the mainstream English religious experience . |