Example sentences of "[vb past] come [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Logically , it would make sense to assume that the aircraft failed to come up to the standards of performance and aggressive capability which the Soviets expected of it . |
| 2 | Britain prefers absolute standards , which would exclude all products that failed to come up to the minimum acceptable level . |
| 3 | Kayersbridge Farm in Hurst , Berkshire , was making its second appearance at auction : auctioneer Gary Murphy had sold it in December for £262,000 to a bidder who failed to come up with the money . |
| 4 | Just two days before the share sale was due to close , the Greater Manchester Council superannuation fund failed to come up with the expected £250,000 . |
| 5 | Middlesbrough 's shambolic defenders failed to come up with the answers to the riddles posed by Rosenthal 's direct running . |
| 6 | Three of the men agreed to come back to the captain , and we put the others in my cave . |
| 7 | Even as I write , my heart is being ‘ roasted ’ because of the pounding music beat coming down from the flat above me . |
| 8 | And , as one later moved into other divisions to be taught by other people one always seemed to come back to the Roman Conquest of Britain , which I found particularly boring , and learnt nothing . |
| 9 | I 'd come in in the middle of something . |
| 10 | Owen never repeated this claim in the pre-Darwinian era , but liberal theologians such as the Oxford mathematician and philosopher Baden Powell began to come around to the idea of ‘ designed evolution ’ during the 1850s . |
| 11 | At the congress Carlsson declared that the emergence of a new security system in Europe based on the 1975 Helsinki accords meant that Sweden 's neutrality no longer " bore the same heavy burden " , and the party began to come round to the view of both industry and the two major opposition parties ( M and Fp ) that Sweden should apply for membership of the European Communities ( EC , which it did in July 1991 — see p. 38353 ) . |
| 12 | Colour began to come back into the young woman 's cheeks . |
| 13 | People began to come back into the block . |
| 14 | He began to come back down the tunnel towards her . |
| 15 | When results began to come in from the field researchers , Highlander served as the collection , organisation and computation centre , and held workshops to allow participants to draw some very marked comparisons and contrasts from the raw data . |
| 16 | Red flares began coming up from the airfield , but the first bombers were committed : they had nowhere to go but down . |
| 17 | It was the time when many stars started to come out of the political closet and openly voiced their support for one candidate or another . |
| 18 | Later , when they realised Japan 's true intentions , Aung San and the small Burmese army , backed by an underground movement , decided to come over to the British , a very courageous step when you realise their numbers , and their limited arms . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , the pressure on me has increased since Stuart decided to come back on the England scene , but this is not the first time he has squeezed the position and I accept that challenge from a top-class player . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , the pressure on me has increased since Stuart decided to come back on the England scene but this is not the first time he has squeezed the position and I accept that challenge from a top-class player . ’ |
| 21 | It would give them the push they needed to come out into the open . |
| 22 | Lisbon purchased a new ground and in 1924 built a first-class pavilion as visiting sides started coming over from the UK . |
| 23 | Then the soldiers started coming back after the war , and we got new members of staff — earnest young men who got all intense about everything . |
| 24 | When they first started coming out of the box they would just sit wherever they happened to land after stretching their wings . |
| 25 | He choked back the tears and shook as he told of how he 'd been driving along the road when steam started coming out of the bonnet . |
| 26 | To her surprise he offered to come over to the office . |
| 27 | She offered to come down for the weekend to help , and Carolyn wanted her badly enough to hesitate before putting her off . |
| 28 | A man I knew came out of the block next to mine . |
| 29 | Perhaps a bit more than that , the old nineteen thirty three class differentiation documents are reissued and they are reissued together with the supplements which we saw came out in the autumn of nineteen thirty three which and , and those supplements where then extended to allow the middle peasant to er up to twenty five , on some of the readings up to thirty percent , of his income from exploitation . |
| 30 | Like rejected lovers returning to a trysting place , they kept coming back to the areas surrounding the station . |