Example sentences of "have [verb] in from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I glance , speculatively , towards the window , where more bad weather has blown in from the North Sea . |
| 2 | Otherwise whoever it was would probably have come in from the corridor . |
| 3 | Edmund ( John Kazek ) is a ludicrous , ranting , kilted boor who seems to have strayed in from the Scottish play . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Ray had come in from the country bank and we sat with Margaret through the short service . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was a relief when Stephen Copley , the Senior Chemist , arrived just before ten , bustling in as usual , his rubicund face with its tonsure and fringe of black curly hair glistening as if he had come in from the sun . |
| 8 | Reproaching herself for not having unlocked it when she had come in from the main door , she rose quickly and went to open up . |
| 9 | McAllister looked at him from under the long dark eyelashes which had won his heart from the very first moment when he had seen them , on his sofa , adorning the unconscious girl he had carried in from the street . |
| 10 | When the corporation took control , all the families living there had moved in from the city area . |
| 11 | Duncan lay still , confused and wondering why the Army had moved in from the south . |
| 12 | They had moved in from the garden during a cold spell in November . |
| 13 | By a coincidence the letter had been waiting for her on her dressing-table when she had got in from the pictures the previous night , just after she had been thinking and talking of Hilda . |
| 14 | He thought it a great feat that she had got in from the Point in an hour and a quarter . |
| 15 | The fire by which we sat , Mrs Browning in front , I to one side , consisted mainly of a branch of beech which she had brought in from the woods : the thick end was in the fireplace , surrounded by burning twigs cosseted into flame by Mrs Browning , who puffed upon them with a pair of leather bellows when they faltered , and the other end , in shape and size rather like the antlers of a deer , reached out into the room . |
| 16 | Then he went on to warn us that , during the cold snap earlier in the year , ice floes had swept in from the sea dragging buoys from their moorings . |
| 17 | At the capitalization party a number of well-wishers had wandered in from the various Labour movement campaigns and organizations which shared the Caxton House office block with NoS . |
| 18 | Sacks of corn were piled loosely against a wall ; three sheep had wandered in from the nearby pasture and had not been expelled ; there was a rank smell from underfoot . |
| 19 | OVER the past two years , Swedish investors have come in from the cold . |
| 20 | The majority of domestic workers are young women without any formal education who have come in from the countryside . |
| 21 | And during the day speckled shower clouds have moved in from the west . |
| 22 | As many as 300,000 people , many of them farming families who have flooded in from the villages , are clamouring for survival . |
| 23 | The ‘ front ’ warned for our area by the weathermen is still some kilometres away so , although high clouds have spread in from the west already , only a few little ‘ cats ’ paws ' of wind ruffle the sea surface . |