Example sentences of "[adj] come [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His brother Peter was too upset to come to the phone today but his secretary confirmed that Hunt , a father-of-two , died of a heart attack during the night . |
| 2 | As a QANTAS flight was due to come through the following day , they hoped that Koepang W/T would be on the air before their arrival at Timor . |
| 3 | This was because the winding up petition was due to come before the court again on 30 July . |
| 4 | The Civil Rights ( Disabled Persons ) Bill was due to come before the Commons this week , but campaigners predicted it would be blocked by the government once more . |
| 5 | erm but ea she would n't bring him over to the phone , she said oh he 's too weak to come to the phone . |
| 6 | Also if a civil servant fails to answer to a committee 's satisfaction , the government accept that the appropriate minister should be prepared to come before the committee . |
| 7 | Old Cowslip was n't afraid to come into the middle of us , was he ? " |
| 8 | ‘ Why I 'm calling , sir , is to ask if you 're free to come to The Randolph this morning . ’ |
| 9 | He had never been too sure as , technically , she was too old to come under the heading of pretty . |
| 10 | Being black has always been in my subconscious , but I 've tried never to let this come to the fore . |
| 11 | With Celia intermittently in a clinic on the outskirts of north London , Brian at his wits ' end and pondering whether to bribe Mrs Bennett to return , Karen had suddenly made the suggestion that her widowed mother might be willing to come to the rescue . |
| 12 | What matters is that Ministers should be ready and willing to come to the House of Commons when expected to do so in order to answer questions from elected representatives on matters of genuine public interest and importance . |
| 13 | And he wanted all the girls who were interested to come to the great city . |
| 14 | There 's no budget provision , and as a consequence approval is being sought for that some to come from the contingency . |
| 15 | Most teachers ( 85% ) used the library for borrowing books connected with their work but 58% looked for information on other subjects also , and over half came to the library to browse . |
| 16 | Some came under the heading of national interest : the broader danger of an unstable Europe , the inviolability of recognised borders . |
| 17 | [ One of the other Assistant Solicitors in the department also joined us from private practice ; another came from the Bar . ] |
| 18 | While she was trying to restart her Mini Metro car another came round the bend from Darlington . |
| 19 | Um Hamed came through the court , covered in her black veils which brushed against climbing bougainvillaea blossoms , sending down showers of petals . |
| 20 | Very very very few came from the local area . |
| 21 | He could be demonic — like the time someone fresh came to the ‘ Carry On ’ team , who was n't quite as professional as he would have liked . ’ |
| 22 | An example of this came during the disability awareness course . |
| 23 | This came as the climax of a well-balance programme which began with a lithe rendering of Weber 's Oberon Overture , fluent and energetic . |
| 24 | The first instance of this came in the so-called Boxer Rebellion of 1900 . |
| 25 | Whereas in the past there have been various pressure groups setting themselves up as having a special reason for being heard thanks to their scientific credentials , perhaps the wisest comment on this came from the professor who , while urging scientists to make their voices heard , also urged them not to make any special claims to knowledge or understanding of the issues just because they were scientists . |
| 26 | ‘ This came from the man who found me the assassin , ’ he went on . |
| 27 | This came from the parents of the children in the Old Town , because of far as I can gather from talking to the people in the Old Town |
| 28 | The stimulus for this came from the desire by some landowners to raise the efficiency of sheep rearing to take advantage of the wool trade with the Netherlands . |
| 29 | Much of this came from the abolition of fallow , much from the farming of what had hitherto been moor , heath or marsh , much , unfortunately , from the destruction of woodlands . |
| 30 | This came from the sixth form . |