Example sentences of "[coord] have come [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 But any ( unmoving ) object placed between the half-silvered mirror and the screen will now occupy a larger area of the image and therefore appear either to have grown larger , as if swelling , or to have come closer to the camera , even though it has not actually moved at all .
2 ( 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 . )
3 Miss Foley was ready to go now and had come up to the desk to clear his out tray .
4 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 .
5 Lucy was involved in a study of cetaceans and had come along in the hope of seeing at least some porpoises .
6 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 .
7 He says a boy had gone away for a weekend and had come back to the school with the tablets and then sold them .
8 Recent studies have posed the question as to whether there is a link between film violence and real violence and have come up with the answer that the majority of people think there is , though at least one study concluded the opposite .
9 Most residents of homes for the elderly are in their eighties and have come there towards the end of an active life .
10 Their union has not only survived the rigours of a decade , but has come out at the other end stronger than ever .
11 This was used by Bourgeois and Certon for Ps. 36 and Goudimel for Ps. 68 , ‘ Que Dieu se montre seulement ’ , but has come down through the centuries as a hymn to Sebaldus Heyden 's words ‘ O Mensch bewein dein Sunde gross ’ .
12 Innes McInnes was obviously a soup-meat-cheese man from way back , but had come up in the world .
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