Example sentences of "a [noun] come [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lookout comes through on the radio . |
| 2 | Elean:Lauretta Ngcobo , another South African writer , in her introduction to your book , described you , as a writer coming out of the upsurges of your people 's consciousness and activities of the 70s , and reflecting those upsurges going on to the 80s . |
| 3 | A clerk came up to the counter . |
| 4 | Where you have a group of people and a brick comes out of the group and lands on a policeman 's head , then it 's very difficult for the law to attach individual and specific guilt to a particular individual . |
| 5 | Led by Major Ronnie Tod , 30 men went ashore and had hardly been gone a few minutes when Dudley Clarke and the commander saw the dark outline of a boat coming in from the sea . |
| 6 | Sure enough , a light came on in the middle floor of the wing . |
| 7 | A soldier came out of the old jailhouse , rifle held lightly in one hand , barrel pointed down . |
| 8 | A stranger coming in to the house that you 've never seen before |
| 9 | A professor came down from the university to investigate the project . |
| 10 | He smiled broadly and he turned from her , munching at the buttered scone , and as he walked out of the back door he heard the sound of a car coming on to the gravel in front of the house . |
| 11 | When I was in the hospital after I 'd had Baby , a bloke came round with the different contraceptives , saying which one are you going to use . |
| 12 | After about half an hour a girl came out of the gate , her tartan shawl held round her with rough , reddened hands . |
| 13 | The back door of the house opened and a girl came out into the yard . |
| 14 | Well I , I was sitting in my house one night on the , I think it would be er nineteen fifty four , and a deputation came up from the ward committee to see me and wondered if I would join the council . |
| 15 | A waiter came out of the car-park of the Queen Victoria Hotel . |
| 16 | The sentries had been primed to admit him without challenge , Alexei noted , and as soon as his escort had dismounted a trooper wearing the gorget of a provost came out of the gatehouse and led them away towards the stables . |
| 17 | An easy cart track heads north and in five minutes arrives at Dry Laithe Cave , commonly known as Calf Holes , where a stream coming down on the right disappears in a rash of rocks and passes into a cave under the track . |
| 18 | A stream comes down on the east side and disappears into a cave entrance admitting to a passage below the track where , on the west side , it is joined underground from an alternative pothole entrance . |
| 19 | and I was gon na go and apply for but then Neil he sent for me and just asked me , just told me there was a job come up in the office and if I wanted it |
| 20 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 21 | Another way of looking at the process is to regard the member of the pair of particles that falls into the black hole — ; the antiparticle , say — as being really a particle that is traveling backward in time Thus , the antiparticle falling into the black hole can be regarded as a particle coming out of the black hole but traveling backward in time . |
| 22 | A civilian came up to the mousy man and asked him a question . |
| 23 | You see a name come up on the leaderboard , then it might disappear and you think to yourself , ‘ I wonder what happened to him ? ’ , and you forget him after a while . |
| 24 | " Hazel , " said Speedwell suddenly , " there 's a rabbit coming down from the warren . |
| 25 | On our way upstairs we met a gentleman coming down in the dark . |
| 26 | A goal or two is what everyone needs and at least United have a chance to come back in the cup with the second leg at Torquay next week |
| 27 | At its highest point , a turn to the right up a pathless incline leads to the subsidiary height of pike which has two cairns ; from here the route , still pathless , heads due south , passing the three Whernside Tarns and rises to join a wall coming up from the left , this being kept alongside to the summit . |
| 28 | Hidden Pot is succeeded by Gale Garth Pot , and when a wall comes in on the left , a detour along its south side is recommended to the point where it turns northwards . |
| 29 | And yet … there was a night , long ago now , when a mist came in off the sea ; we slept uneasily , then woke in the dark , to hear the cold whine of sea magic in the air . |
| 30 | Hang on a minute , I just wan want to work out what happens if a complaint comes in against the Gas board ? |