Example sentences of "[vb past] come [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ They seemed convinced a whole lot of people had come up from the big city to show off , to be grandees , which was far from the truth . |
| 32 | Louis had come up from the saloon . |
| 33 | He had come up from the bottom and made it to the top : no one was to forget that he was at the top and everyone was supposed to forget where he had come from and how he had got where he was . |
| 34 | Last month PHILIP VANN looked at artists who had come up from the mines to become artists ; in this issue he concentrates on those artists who went down to the pit to paint |
| 35 | They were by now in Piccadilly Circus , which was as bright as day , and were surrounded by the crowds streaming from the theatres , cafés and dives which populated the area , painted ladies of a certain character being prominent among them — as well as the enthusiastic amateurs who had come up from the East End to make a few pennies , or even be given supper , as a price for their favours . |
| 36 | Something sudden had come up concerning the family fortunes and he had to consult his solicitors : it was the one excuse that his seniors being closer to retirement and thus deeply concerned with land values and capital transfer taxes accepted with sympathy . |
| 37 | A wind had come through with the Josephites , and blown away the man 's whole world . |
| 38 | Lucy was involved in a study of cetaceans and had come along in the hope of seeing at least some porpoises . |
| 39 | It went on to note that many of the most effective schemes had come about through the voluntary sector as a result of individual enterprise or a one person crusade — not as a logical outcome of a strategic planning process . |
| 40 | The great advances in producing the laws of physical science had come about through the application of a method , one which systematically simplified the messiness of the appearances of the world , to produce the pristine laws of natural science . |
| 41 | The revolution in New Testament scholarship which had come about during the hundred years before he wrote The Problem of Pain appears to have passed him by . |
| 42 | ‘ Is she of a good family , like Mercy ? ’ asked his surprised mother , who had come in during the conversation . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | He had come in at the door , he had lain down with her , he had been her lover . |
| 45 | It had come in for the attack . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | This beggar had come in to the fitting shop , corner at the back corner , where he should n't have been . |
| 51 | Then Beryl went on to outline a couple of job offers that had come in within the last few days . |
| 52 | 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 . ’ |
| 53 | Ray had come in from the country bank and we sat with Margaret through the short service . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | Reproaching herself for not having unlocked it when she had come in from the main door , she rose quickly and went to open up . |
| 57 | If Lili had come in by the back door it had been very late indeed . |
| 58 | Toby had come back for the moment . |
| 59 | The woman had come back to the farm 's archway from where she and two men stared nervously up the road towards Frasnes . |
| 60 | After wartime service in the RAF he had come back to the School , and with his friends Mr. Norris and Mr. Hardie had helped to introduce Rugby to the School . |