Example sentences of "have come in [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 From Wolhusen the circular itinerary now continues south on road 10 which has come in on the left ( ie east from Luzern .
3 All the lights are up and cold air has come in with the officials .
4 This particular form of the game is not that old , having come in in the middle of the last century , when changes took place in the technology of pelota .
5 A tidy desk and behind it a man who might have come in on the Saturday afternoon for extra work .
6 Ronnie must have come in through the yard door without her knowing …
7 She sat at the table and painstakingly wrote down the sums of money that should have come in for the work already done .
8 Otherwise whoever it was would probably have come in from the corridor .
9 It turned out to have come in through the curved zip which is unprotected by a weather flap .
10 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 .
11 I 've come in for the polish
12 ‘ Is she of a good family , like Mercy ? ’ asked his surprised mother , who had come in during the conversation .
13 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 .
14 He had come in at the door , he had lain down with her , he had been her lover .
15 It had come in for the attack .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 This beggar had come in to the fitting shop , corner at the back corner , where he should n't have been .
21 Then Beryl went on to outline a couple of job offers that had come in within the last few days .
22 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 . ’
23 Ray had come in from the country bank and we sat with Margaret through the short service .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 Reproaching herself for not having unlocked it when she had come in from the main door , she rose quickly and went to open up .
27 If Lili had come in by the back door it had been very late indeed .
28 More than 50 orphaned or injured otters from all over Britain have come in to the trust 's rehabilitation centre in south-west Scotland .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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