Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | A wind had come through with the Josephites , and blown away the man 's whole world . |
| 4 | It was n't just today the boy had come up to the wood but yesterday as well . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The smile had come out for the landlord , and disappeared when he had left the room . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The woman had come back to the farm 's archway from where she and two men stared nervously up the road towards Frasnes . |
| 15 | My only other close encounter with a paraglider was finding one grounded in a quagmire in the Arrochar Alps , where the poor man had come down in the wrong glen , leaving him miles to walk back to any road . |
| 16 | Fairfax — Fahfakhs — who was a big man in the government had come down to the little town where Tepilit was held . |
| 17 | Miss Thomas said he had been concerned that the call had come out of the blue . |
| 18 | Meanwhile one of the adjacent houses on Clifton Park Road had come on to the market and School had bought it . |
| 19 | I got there — the message had come up via the landlady . |
| 20 | The great advances in producing the laws of physical science had come about through the application of a method , one which systematically simplified the messiness of the appearances of the world , to produce the pristine laws of natural science . |
| 21 | Either a spark had come down from the old fellow 's hole up there or him with hobnail boots had trod on er black powder and set it off and his hole went out underneath his feet . |
| 22 | An attempt had been made to have the case relisted before the sentencer within the 28 day period during which variations in sentence are permitted by Supreme Court Act 1981 , S.4 ; , and if the matter had come back before the sentencer within that period it would have been open to him to review the sentence and impose a lawful sentence . |
| 23 | Newman 's detailed researches in hospital had come up with the fact that this company was a subsidiary of INCUBUS . |
| 24 | Her hand had come down on the spider and it had bitten her . |
| 25 | Eye-witness Maureen Darwin , who was waiting to board one of the US-bound jumbos , said : ‘ It was as if a giant unseen hand had come down from the heavens and just lifted the planes up and across the tarmac . |
| 26 | Signor Candiano 's letter had come out of the blue . |
| 27 | Unnoticed , a little apple-cheeked woman with white hair had come out of the Chapel , and now she took her husband 's arm . |
| 28 | As the target had come out of the hotel , his hand had stiffened on the grip of the Ruger in the plastic bag and he had eased his weight towards the passenger door . |