Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] come [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I had surely noticed that nearly all the ingredients had come on to the train fresh ? |
| 3 | A couple of airmen had come out of the trenches to see what the shooting was about . |
| 4 | Lights had come on beyond the doorway . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was in fact a long time before all the rabbits had come back to the hollow in the middle of the field . |
| 7 | By then other intellectuals had come out against the radicals . |
| 8 | By that time , their wives had come out of the crowd and got hold of them , and were taking them away . |
| 9 | These men had come out of the tubes of a submarine , probably a Delta class . |
| 10 | One of Ken 's aunts had come up in the world and arrived at the cemetery wearing a fur coat which was donned purely and simply to impress the other members of the family . |
| 11 | Five or six young boys had come over to the fire with some scraps of meat and sections of cleaned intestine that they skewered with s ticks and laid on the embers to roast . |
| 12 | From the time of James 's second Indulgence , most Whigs and Nonconformists had come out against the suspending power , on the promise that if they stuck by the Church , they would be given some measure of toleration . |
| 13 | It went on to note that many of the most effective schemes had come about through the voluntary sector as a result of individual enterprise or a one person crusade — not as a logical outcome of a strategic planning process . |
| 14 | Two nomes had come out of the grass . |
| 15 | Hence , by the 1920s and 1930s , only a tiny minority of Burmese politicians had come up via the ladder of education and training in Britain , by which Gandhi , Jinnah and Nehru had risen . |
| 16 | Her spirits had come down from the heights to the abyss . |