Example sentences of "[adv] come in [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I only came in on the red , raw minute , ’ she said , ‘ so you 'll excuse me , madam . ’ |
| 2 | When Ceauŝescu personally came in on the act they faked a car accident and tricked up a couple of bodies for the Securitate to send back to England . |
| 3 | These three members of the Procellariidae family have one thing in common : they are all ‘ night birds ’ , only coming in to the screes and grassy slopes of the cliffs under cover of darkness to change places with their mate on the single egg , deep within a burrow , or later to feed the young . |
| 4 | The wh he said in fact it 's just come in for the programme or something has n't it . |
| 5 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 6 | It was quite soon after the terrible motor accident that had crippled him for life , and she had just come in from the garden with a bunch of flowers for him . |
| 7 | ‘ This report has just come in from the Environments Officer . |
| 8 | Then , when the horse is brought out of the stable , instead of just walking quietly along ( which it would if it had just come in from the paddock ) , it is jumping out of its skin , ready to spook and shy at anything , nostrils dilated , eyes bulging , and tail hoisted high . |
| 9 | And the searchlights the the battery that we were The camp that we were near , they opened fire and the battery would open fire at that , and the searchlight anyway came in through the window . |
| 10 | As the second show was coming to an end , Lucy sat herself in the makeup chair and made a sullen face and checked her watch frequently , with the idea that Josie should catch her doing it as she finally came in through the door . |
| 11 | Beyond them , just coming in through the door , she saw Pascoe . |
| 12 | You never know what 's just coming in through the door . ’ |
| 13 | Just coming in through the door at that very minute was Detective-Constable Edwards . |
| 14 | This must be him just coming in through the side door . |
| 15 | It 's when I , when I went to Poland it 's not two or three years , it was nineteen seventy three and I was , I was just coming in into the church and the one Witness was with me and we were going in er big town like Cracow , you know , we were going one way and there was a couple coming erm to meet us like you know in , in , in , on the road , and he was just wearing erm jeans and no shirt , but erm a big , big wooden cross on his chest just reaching really across his chest a wooden cross and then erm a safety pin in his nose and three safety pins attached to one another through his ears and this Witness with me walking down , she says just look at this couple and the girl was , wore the same dress she , she had the top on , you know , but again all sort of queer looking and she , this Witness with me , with me so , she said just look at the two that 's er coming aga to meet us and I said yes and I looked and I said look at the cross and she says yes , it used to be , they used to hang the criminals on the crosses and now the crosses hang on the criminals is n't that lovely , and now the cross is er all the criminals instead of the cross , oh yes |
| 16 | Look — there she is , just coming in from the garden . ’ |
| 17 | Museums are finally coming in from the cold , to take their place alongside a whole range of other cultural facilities such as zoos , botanic gardens , planetariums , libraries , and the like — all of which are striving , in their own distinctive ways , to contribute to the informal education of the public as a whole . |
| 18 | I 'd just come in from the garden and kicked my wellies off when it happened . ’ |
| 19 | I suppose my shadow calculated that I would soon come in off the streets , or perhaps he was using the opportunity to go through my baggage . |
| 20 | MATT EDWARDS used the Coca-Cola Cup to finally come in from the wilderness last night . |
| 21 | Well , before mid-afternoon all the men — and extra help always came in for the threshing — were incapable of working . |
| 22 | Afterwards I sit with him in the room at the back , the late afternoon light still coming in through the windows . |
| 23 | There was a lot of talk but of course you always had these people who sons and that in the army , and they would always come in with the war situation . |
| 24 | If an inner-city supplies free art galleries , financed out of taxes on inner-city inhabitants , the rich still come in from the suburbs to make use of these facilities . |
| 25 | They usually come in until the day they have their baby , and most come back again very early , as soon as two weeks . |
| 26 | So what he does now he always comes in over the top , so every time you see John shake hands with anybody he 'll always do that and come in over the top actually I 'm in charge and he sort of er sort of stamps his authority on the individual . |
| 27 | ‘ By tradition the money always comes in at the end . |
| 28 | If our much smaller , and much more numerous local museums are also to come in from the cold , the only route open to them is the one of providing a stimulating and memorable learning experience . |
| 29 | It 's probably come in with the door being open . |
| 30 | Its first workers in Greece probably came in with the material , but they soon found native pupils . |