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

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1 and suddenly came upon the river ,
2 After spending all night , like John , at the tiller , he was relieved to find that ‘ steering as the children in my story steered , we should indeed reach the Deurloo Channel , and so come to the mouth of Flushing harbour ’ .
3 Opals were totally unknown to the early civilizations of the Old World and only came to the knowledge of the Mediterranean peoples as an outcome of Roman military expansion into the Balkans .
4 This china lived in the sideboard in the dining-room and only came into the kitchen to be warmed before a meal and washed up afterwards .
5 But soon this force also was obliged to retreat and thus came within the grasp of a new figure , General Joseph Galliéni , the recently appointed Military Governor of the French capital and the man who , above all , was to save France from conquest .
6 Return to pan and stir over a low heat until it thickens and just comes to the boil .
7 ‘ In 1980 I was 19 and just coming to the end of The Skids , which I 'd been in since I was 15 .
8 He began to establish a reputation in the late 40s through radio performances , and soon came to the attention of Sam Phillips , with releases on the Chess and Sun labels , playing as a one-man band .
9 Karen and Kee drove out of the small village , down the road , and soon came to the houses of the new town .
10 After seeing Mr Stephens disappear around the corner , she examined the small room minutely , the books on the shelf — reading out all their titles aloud — the three prints on the wall , " The Education of the Young Raleigh " , " Derwentwater at Dawn " and " The Drunkard 's Children " — drew her boots appreciatively over the mat , picked up the jug of pencils and finally came to the oven which was next to the sink .
11 I had thought about it seriously , examined the political parties with an open mind , and finally come to the conclusion that the Lib-Dems should have my vote .
12 We went farther up the wasted beach , still finding interesting pieces of flotsam and finally coming to the rusted remnant I thought was a water-tank or a half-buried canoe , from a distance .
13 One slap from his whip and Phar Lap cruised into the lead again , winning by two lengths in a course record time and hardly coming off the bridle .
14 Ski coaching schemes run by schools and youth organisations are legally charitable and also come into the remit of BSET .
15 In Westminster Abbey Library is a fragment of a funerary taper found in Abbot Thomas Mylling 's tomb , which is presumed to have been placed there at the time of his funeral in 1492 and probably came off the hearse .
16 INTEGRAL will follow up observations from the Russian GRANAT mission ( which uses the French gamma-ray telescope SIGMA ) launched in 1989 and now coming to the end of its mission , and the US Compton Gamma Ray Observatory , which was launched by the space shuttle in April 1991 .
17 I 'd worked at for 18 years and often came to the Terminal to check the weigh-bridge .
18 ‘ That is true , ’ Rose Alderley said , putting in her mite , and immediately came under the scrutiny of Lady Usk 's interested eye .
19 I drove away slowly and then came to the corner of Union and Gloucester .
20 It is recorded that a Masai once killed a cattle robber and then came into the district office to report the murder .
21 Either that or they go through to Salzburg and then come off the motorway there .
22 Still detached from the actual sensations , she described how he had gone under the water and then come to the surface again several times before finally drowning .
23 I shall respond to my hon. Friend the Member for Wellingborough and the hon. Member for Western Isles on the question of force and then come to the very issue that the hon. Member for Liverpool , West Derby ( Mr. Wareing ) has raised , which I recognise is relevant .
24 I am not going to write to the Colleges themselves one week with bureaucratic non-talk and then come into the clear the following week … if there is going to be an outburst I believe the sooner we get it over the better .
25 ‘ Yes , sometimes you create this illusion for yourself , because you 've been with it a certain number of hours , but it can also go the other way : you might think something 's horrible and then come in the next day and realise it 's actually pretty good .
26 We pass the Madeira Wine Company Lodge , with its museum and tasting room , and the Tourist Office , which also has an art gallery attached , and then comes to the corner of Avenidas Arriaga and Zarco .
27 The message that again and again comes through the pages of history , is that humanity must arrange its political affairs in such a manner that there is always room for a religious life in some form for those who want it .
28 It was true that Conchis was a recluse and never came to the village , but that he had been a collaborationist was a lie .
29 There may in fact be little street credibility for the intentions and claims of the school , for example it 's no good boasting of an open door policy if people feel intimidated and never come across the playground .
30 I can not tell you why , but please do what I ask you , and never come near the moor again .
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