Example sentences of "come [prep] the [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was n't Iris who told us , though she had known for some time that it had come through the Strait shortly after the Belgrano had been sunk . |
| 2 | Candidates include : the inability or unwillingness of the Federal Reserve to stem the banking panic and maintain the money supply ; the failure to use fiscal policy intelligently ( up to and including Franklin Roosevelt 's New Deal after 1933 ) ; the uses and abuses of the gold standard ( Britain deciding to go back on the gold standard in 1925 at the pre-1914 parity , then deciding to come off the standard altogether in 1931 ; the refusal of many countries , especially America , to follow gold-standard rules ) ; the outbreak of trade war sparked by America 's Smoot-Hawley tariffs in 1930 ; and so on . |
| 3 | This was because the winding up petition was due to come before the court again on 30 July . |
| 4 | Well I was thinking of things like witchcraft , which would seem a rather a luxury fringe subject , but some of the most fascinating research that 's been done recently in my period of early modern history has been showing how witchcraft erm was the second most important erm crime to come before the courts apart from theft in , in my period , and in exploring why witchcraft had this appeal you 're learning much more about the age . |
| 5 | Snow and ice from their mutuations and from the part they play in nature as precipitation , agents of erosion and modifiers of climate come within the range severally of physics , meteorology , geology , physical geography , oceanography and climatology . |
| 6 | It was the custom for men to come to the place only by invitation . |
| 7 | Although some of these may have been cases of a genuine change of religious commitment , in many I was given the strong impression that these were people who had come to the church regularly at the time when they were building their political careers but who had subsequently fallen away and now professed no strong denominational attachment . |
| 8 | Covenant politics has come to the forefront again with the Hillsborough agreement of 1985 and shows the extent to which the populist politics of the Democratic Unionists is rooted in protestant — loyalist tradition . |
| 9 | We lined up in the final and I came off the bend well in the lead . |
| 10 | I said I 'd be in any time after six that evening and he came for the key precisely on the hour . ’ |
| 11 | He also came under the influence there of Henry Cole , Richard Redgrave , and Owen Jones [ qq.v. ] , whose Grammar of Ornament of 1856 included Dresser 's first published illustration . |
| 12 | An investigation of the Directorate published in Izvestiya of Oct. 22 , 1992 , revealed that the October 1991 order to form it from the troops of the Russian Interior Ministry was unknown to Supreme Soviet deputies ; that its personnel was armed and " in exceptional circumstances " could distribute its arms to people 's deputies ; that it guarded about 75 buildings in Moscow , " two-thirds of which have absolutely no relation to the parliament " ; and that it came under the jurisdiction only of the parliamentary Chairman . |
| 13 | I came into the hall just in time to see it . |
| 14 | All I can tell you is that Winsor blue is one of the trade names for an intense blue pigment , copper phthalocyanine , which came into the palette sometime in the thirties . |
| 15 | Marcus came round the door feelingly like a blind creature , clinging with fingers to edges and surfaces Although the front door opened into the Sitting-room he was plainly disconcerted to find them there . |
| 16 | She came upon the leather-worker further along the street surrounded by a mob of youths who were beating and kicking him . |
| 17 | May I on behalf of my right hon. and hon. Friends point out that the disgraceful barracking and shouting which came from the mob opposite during the reply was clearly an exercise orchestrated by the Labour Whips ? |
| 18 | The cream eventually came to the surface yesterday in the Four Nations under-16 and under-18 men 's youth tournament at Aberdeen when England produced their best form to crush Ireland 4–0 in both matches and win the sections . |
| 19 | But , she was telling the story of a man who was travelling over the moor and it was many years ago on horseback and er he was completely lost and wan , it was getting dark and he wanted to stay somewhere for the night and he sort of travelled and could n't see anywhere and eventually down a long drive he saw a house wi , blazing with lights so he went down this house and er , all the windows were alight , you know were lit up and he knocked at the door and knocked at the door , and knocked at the door and could n't get any answer , no one ever came to the door so in desperation he thought well this is no good ! |
| 20 | Edwin Kerr came to the Council early in the decade committed both to reforming validation procedures , and to rethinking the balance between the CNAA and the institutions : |
| 21 | Edward the Confessor , for example , came to the throne sometime in June 1042 , and was crowned on 3 April 1043 , but did he become king as soon as Harthacnut died on 8 June 1042 , or was he adjudged king only after his anointing ? |
| 22 | horse racing fans from all over the country came to the Cotswolds yesterday for a rather special day … |
| 23 | horse racing fans from all over the country came to the Cotswolds yesterday for a rather special day … |
| 24 | ‘ You 're not saying he came to the salon just for conversation ? ’ |
| 25 | Patrick Dunn was unmarried , forty four and came to the police late after a teaching career . |
| 26 | That day , while being shown round the Zoo by the Foreman , he came to the Cages just as a female golden eagle was being put in one of them . |
| 27 | ‘ Your Grace , I and two others were some way behind , bringing up the spare horses , and came on the scene only in time to see Sir Edmund at grips , and the battle all but done . |
| 28 | We could hear them coming up the stairs right to our door and then shouting and hammering on it . |
| 29 | People had to flee into the bush , seeking to hide from the bandits as best they could , coming into the village only by day . |
| 30 | The voice was soft and feminine , coming from the shadows directly in front of him . |