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

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1 The port was London , where the seamen had come out in sympathy with the dockers .
2 The prince had come over to London to be married — from the house of Anna 's sister who was settled there — he hated every minute of it .
3 The prince has come in for a lot of criticism from the UN and the West for spending most of the past few months in China .
4 The election has come just in time to boost the Easter start of the housing market 's buying season .
5 The decision had come down in favour of illusion : the President 's dream of triumphant new diplomacy and the hostages home .
6 The improvements have come not in a dramatic way but week by week over a number of months .
7 The Vicar had come round to tea and was talking to Tommy and his mother about his daughter .
8 It omitted to point out that the story had come entirely from Nigerian , and mainly official , sources .
9 probably , a bar with nuts and raisins called raisin natural bar I 'm sorry about loo loosing the keys mum , mum tt the noise has gone the noise has come back by the way
10 In an attempt to cure this problem ( and sell more skegs ) the manufacturers have come out with a number of ingenious shapes .
11 After only getting 7 points compared to my target of 10 from the first 6 games , the lads have come back with 14 from the next 6 .
12 The force has come in for criticism in the past two months after figures released on the constabulary 's ‘ crime-free day ’ in April showed Cheshire had suffered the highest rise in crime in the country .
13 Both the air force and the army , as well as those who actually served with Leslie , seemed now to presume that the aircraft had come down in the English Channel .
14 However , the club has come close to the brink , surviving winding up orders .
15 The Scots had come over from Ireland and colonised most of Galloway , Kintyre and Arran .
16 The words had come out with a distinct tang of broad Lancashire , but she immediately withdrew into her pseudo-Southern gentility .
17 The words had come out in a babble and by the time he had gathered his wits and been able to respond she had put the phone down .
18 I had surely noticed that nearly all the ingredients had come on to the train fresh ?
19 What did the fool have to come here for ?
20 Well , I know the Queen has come up to Buckingham Palace , for the Season .
21 The revolt had come close to success and it may well have shaken Henry II 's confidence in his son 's ability to rule Aquitaine .
22 well the sun 's come out for you now
23 Almost two years later , the committee has come up with a document , which could be adopted early this month .
24 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 .
25 In Italy , everything for years now has been political , even art , but just as most of Italian life is kicking against the ever looser traces of the big political parties , the Biennale has come up with a wholly unreconstructed , wholly political , Board of Management , approved under pressure from the Christian Democrats by the Prime Minister Giuliano Amato on 15 January .
26 The fact that the burns had come about in an unforeseeable way did not render the damage too remote .
27 It was n't just today the boy had come up to the wood but yesterday as well .
28 DAS stepped in again and now the shop has come up with a top-of-the-range camcorder in perfect order .
29 In both Nicaragua and Mozambique , the governments have come up against the question of choosing which language or languages to teach in .
30 ‘ Of course I 'm glad that the investigation has come up with nothing incriminating against me , but it 's no surprise .
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