Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] come [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Like many British design engineers at the time — and unlike Continental or American ones — he had no university training and had come up through the usual apprenticeship route with evening and part-time study . ) |
| 2 | Miss Foley was ready to go now and had come up to the desk to clear his out tray . |
| 3 | He had arrived at the Laboratory over an hour late , at ten o'clock , looking terribly tired because he had been up that night at the scene of crime , and had come over to the reception desk to collect his personal post . |
| 4 | Lucy was involved in a study of cetaceans and had come along in the hope of seeing at least some porpoises . |
| 5 | The Jew had left Judaea , where the capital has a name difficult to pronounce ( they call it Ierusalem ) and had come down to the sea . |
| 6 | He says a boy had gone away for a weekend and had come back to the school with the tablets and then sold them . |
| 7 | Innes McInnes was obviously a soup-meat-cheese man from way back , but had come up in the world . |