Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] come [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This beggar had come in to the fitting shop , corner at the back corner , where he should n't have been . |
| 2 | Lee and his stepdad had come out of the shed . |
| 3 | Behind him , Ann had come out of the kitchen with Matthew clutching her skirt . |
| 4 | Both the air force and the army , as well as those who actually served with Leslie , seemed now to presume that the aircraft had come down in the English Channel . |
| 5 | Toby had come back for the moment . |
| 6 | A wind had come through with the Josephites , and blown away the man 's whole world . |
| 7 | Unlike Eb , Josh had come back from the war in one piece , hale and hearty . |
| 8 | At least one bookseller remarked to me that so many ex-library books had come on to the market in the last few years that he had begun to realise what it must have been like when the great monastic libraries were being dispersed . |
| 9 | I had surely noticed that nearly all the ingredients had come on to the train fresh ? |
| 10 | It was n't just today the boy had come up to the wood but yesterday as well . |
| 11 | Ray had come in from the country bank and we sat with Margaret through the short service . |
| 12 | Manpower had come down over the years from 470,000 in 1960 to 215,000 twenty years later , but the business was still over-staffed . |
| 13 | A couple of airmen had come out of the trenches to see what the shooting was about . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | Louis had come up from the saloon . |
| 16 | Lights had come on beyond the doorway . |
| 17 | The smile had come out for the landlord , and disappeared when he had left the room . |
| 18 | During August , Russia 's Constitutional Court had come down on the side of Izvestiya and Yeltsin , while the Prosecutor 's Office and the Russian Federal Property Fund had unsuccessfully supported the Supreme Soviet . |
| 19 | A lot of flood water had come down from the upper reaches of the Cherwell , and a body placed in the river , say , at Lonsdale Road … |
| 20 | A branch of the great plane tree had come down in the wind and as he ran back towards the Cages he saw that it had fallen right across the path where moments before he had been standing . |
| 21 | But even before the farmers had come up to the market someone had probably met them at the station , because each dealer had a tout — a local man . |
| 22 | His wife had come out to the island on his first posting and , before she decided to return to London , she had bought the bungalow and furnished it . |
| 23 | And still that mystery in the front room continued , reflected Shirley on New Year 's Eve 1979 , as she examined the handsome features of the dangerous Queen of Spades , and wondered if the King had come out in the deal . |
| 24 | If Lili had come in by the back door it had been very late indeed . |
| 25 | It was in fact a long time before all the rabbits had come back to the hollow in the middle of the field . |
| 26 | Whilst they had been watching the protesters , a waitress had come out of The Crossed Keys hotel on the corner of the square carrying a tray of interesting-looking glasses . |
| 27 | By then other intellectuals had come out against the radicals . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | By that time , their wives had come out of the crowd and got hold of them , and were taking them away . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |