Example sentences of "come in [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is she of a good family , like Mercy ? ’ asked his surprised mother , who had come in during the conversation . |
| 2 | It turned out to have come in through the curved zip which is unprotected by a weather flap . |
| 3 | Ronnie must have come in through the yard door without her knowing … |
| 4 | What 's happened is , of course , that as the costs have fallen and the micros have come in through the door so they 're very much smaller , erm it all becomes possible for the whole of society and not for a tiny elite . |
| 5 | Probably the paper did n't even have wire service , and if it did , he 'd bet a dime that anything which had come in about the book 's author had simply been buried in the chaos then reigning in the newspaper office . |
| 6 | More than 50 orphaned or injured otters from all over Britain have come in to the trust 's rehabilitation centre in south-west Scotland . |
| 7 | This beggar had come in to the fitting shop , corner at the back corner , where he should n't have been . |
| 8 | Labour Members say that they want to have a debate , yet because they have been discomfited in other debates they have come in to the Chamber to start shouting and jeering . |
| 9 | She sat at the table and painstakingly wrote down the sums of money that should have come in for the work already done . |
| 10 | Since the disease is heterosexually transmitted in Africa , the group which has come in for the most blame for its rapid spread have been the many poor women who have been supporting themselves in Nairobi through commercial sex . |
| 11 | It had come in for the attack . |
| 12 | What I might actually do it see if Ian 's not doing anything if he not come in for the full time that they 're cleaning up , but come in for those sort of things . |
| 13 | I 've come in for the polish |
| 14 | The wh he said in fact it 's just come in for the programme or something has n't it . |
| 15 | Only a party bigot would claim that they had somehow come in with the Conservative Government three years earlier . |
| 16 | All the lights are up and cold air has come in with the officials . |
| 17 | There was one early proposal about archaeology which became a series called The Blood of the British , where they had come in with the idea of the series . |
| 18 | It had been Dr Rolleston 's great sorrow that he had not been able to help children who had come in with the dreaded Infantile Paralysis , not that any other professor in Europe had been able to do better than by careful nursing stop the paralysis spreading . |
| 19 | Old Joseph was glad he kept the Christmas cards from his son and daughter in 1987 , for every year since then he has taken them out and displayed them as if they had come in with the post . |
| 20 | He was glad that he did n't throw out the Christmas cards from his son and daughter in 1987 , for every year since he had taken them out of the suitcase on top of the wardrobe and displayed them in his own room as if they had come in with the morning post . |
| 21 | It 's probably come in with the door being open . |
| 22 | A tidy desk and behind it a man who might have come in on the Saturday afternoon for extra work . |
| 23 | From Wolhusen the circular itinerary now continues south on road 10 which has come in on the left ( ie east from Luzern . |
| 24 | What has been er what has been pleasing is that a n a number of the people who 've come in on the last two or three years or so er are younger people , people in their er late teens or twenties . |
| 25 | He 's just come in on the come back trail and he seems to me to be getting better and better . |
| 26 | He had come in at the door , he had lain down with her , he had been her lover . |
| 27 | Otherwise whoever it was would probably have come in from the corridor . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | OVER the past two years , Swedish investors have come in from the cold . |
| 30 | 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 . |