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Example sentences of "[noun pl] came [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Newspaper journalists came up with the information that the pachinko barons had been just as liberal with their cash as the Recruit corporation had been with political donations and cheap shares not long before .
2	One after another , the big , black waves came out of the darkness — waves ten , twenty metres high !
3	‘ Fans came out of the woodwork for those games .
4	This may sound harsh , but it seems to me that when we lost our empire our eyes came down from the horizon and looked at our feet .
5	The lads came up from the gill with buckets of water and stood a-row along the brink .
6	Then one of the travelling craftsmen came out from the town and lined the cart , trap or wagon we happened to be making : that means he painted the finishing touches , the lines on the wheels and the panels .
7	After initial experiments with raised beds , ramps and customised tools some lateral thinkers from both groups came up with the idea of a wheelchair with a seat which could be lowered to the plants at ground level .
8	Many a rainy day would he bring dreariness to an end , as his musical talents came out to the surface .
9	Clapping their wings the gulls came back from the sea ,
10	Water companies came out of the study well , with the ten privatised companies all on the top 24 profit-makers ' list .
11	Some Australians came out of the shower room and began arguing with the merry sub-human guard :
12	‘ I love Harvey , ’ and little noises came out of the sphere of hair as if a canary was eating a hearty meal of seeds .
13	His appetite whetted by this auction , he was a natural target for Sotheby 's when Irises came on to the market .
14	The goal though , was against the run of play and sure enough , Rovers came back at the start of the second half with an equaliser from Kenny Irons .
15	The keys came back through the post , without even a thank-you note .
16	The visitors came back into the game with two penalty goals by Graves and could have turned ends 9–9 had he been successful with his third penalty goal on half-time .
17	Burun 's feet came down off the sill .
18	Whole farms and landed estates at the edge of urban areas came on to the market ; suburban land prices therefore were very low .
19	Shoes came off in the water .
20	Small boats came out to the liner , some bearing vendors of coconuts and bananas , others containing friends and relatives who shouted up names to the rail .
21	He had wandered away along the narrow trodden path through the grass while they were talking , to the small hollow cove where boats came in to the abbey meadows .
22	The mourners came out into the frost and mist of the January morning as the last traffic-jams of the rush-hour began to clear .
23	Their calculations came up with the number of a thousand trillion trillion times atmospheric , 1027 , a number larger than the number of atoms in your body .
24	The Dili watchers came back to the Company headquarters to find the 2/2 was now linked to Brigadier Veale 's 200 survivors of Sparrow Force with a base at Mape , in the hills ( see map p. 77 ) .
25	He switched on the refrigeration unit , and as it shivered into life the counter lights came on under the glass .
26	Lights came on in the Mootwalk shops as one by one they began to open .
27	Suddenly , all the lights came on in the hospital and they eventually opened a side-door and let her in .
28	Huge space-age lights came down from the ceiling to flash in time to the thudding pulse of the music .
29	The Germans occupied them in the second world war , the Americans rebuilt them afterwards , and then the north-west Europeans came back in the shape of the European Community and its powerful money .
30	Firstly , donations of large quantities came in throughout the year enabling sorting , packeting , pricing , etc. , to be put in hand in good time .