Example sentences of "come [prep] [pron] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , they had come into it straight from slavery . |
| 2 | No longer would he pound around the obstacle course set out by Newton and himself : there was a life he could live which took its time , strolled through weeks as if they were single mornings , allowed the world to come to him instead of himself for ever launching himself on it as if in unarmed combat . |
| 3 | If you just stand around waiting for the enemy to come to you then of course your ladz will get bored , and naturally they 'll start to get a bit fractious , then inevitably they 'll end up failing an Animosity test probably just when you do n't want them to . |
| 4 | He intended to enjoy the next interview , although he could n't understand why Meik had come to him instead of to Lord Chomsmy . |
| 5 | He reminded me that I 'd predicted many , many things over the years and that so far nothing had come to anything apart from purely coincidental moves . |
| 6 | The matter came before him again on 2 July . |
| 7 | Any idea that the bout of despair was over was quickly dispelled as the old horror came over me again in waves . |
| 8 | It was misty , and there was not a soul in sight , and I had the same eerie feeling which came over me sometimes in other parts of the village . |
| 9 | Although comedy came to him easily in the sense that he seems to have made the class laugh at will from a tender age , it is , like everything else , something that he works at and it annoys him when others fail to do so . |
| 10 | The cough and splutter of an aircraft engine came to her clearly on the still evening air . |
| 11 | Once they 'd realized this , the villagers came to her often with their problems . |
| 12 | Caterina judged then , as she watched Rosa pin her hair , that the ease with which she , Caterina , won applause — when she danced and sang the cherry song , or strewed flowers before the host in the procession , making a little reverence to the monstrance on every third step backwards — was undeserved , the effect of some trick she did not want to perform but that came to her naturally from some evil in her , the same evil that had inspired her bad thoughts of Tommaso and prevented her doing as her sister , her beloved sister , wanted . |
| 13 | Their words came to me only as a series of hoarse gasping noises . |
| 14 | One advantage of the appalling route was that it offered no temptation to diverge from it — since I could not see where I was going anyway , the only thing to do was to follow the compass , and I had waded ditches as I came to them instead of attempting to find easier crossing places . |
| 15 | The move to Harehills in the 1940s and buying a Morris was a new-found stability which came to them only in middle age . |
| 16 | But no cries came to them there on the terrace , the darkness lit by the moon , the bright stars spread like a net across a sky that never lost its blueness , the scented tapers burning between the statuary of the amorous god . |
| 17 | This little girl , twenty-one months old , came to us straight from her mother 's arms . |
| 18 | Jan Leeming , seemingly discarded by the BBC , came to us initially as a reporter . |
| 19 | If we assumed that Wetherby came across him unexpectedly on the premises , and turned away to give the alarm , how does that fit with the cheese and the bloodstains ? |
| 20 | I could see this condition coming upon me relentlessly from the first moment Dana cast his eyes upon me : he was another who knew how to use the power of the evil eye , almost casually , to enchant total strangers . |
| 21 | It was that sort of attitude that would prevent Craig from coming to her directly for help . |
| 22 | Erm , I do understand that er , you know , we 've got another report coming to us tomorrow on it , and there may be some additions on it disabled people hopefully about getting more people to , disabled people to That that 's another aim we help people |
| 23 | Silence then , the sounds of the port coming to us softly through the night , partially overlaid by the persistent hum of machinery from the freighter moored ahead of us . |
| 24 | Anne is probably coming to us still on |
| 25 | The village boys had caught the cassowary that morning , coming on her suddenly in the bush and chasing her down a long slope . |
| 26 | If I had a gun here yeah and I knew and you were coming at me like with a club and I shouted , Stop . |
| 27 | ‘ Mr Lytham will come with me now to your bank , Dorothy , will you not , sir ? ’ |
| 28 | You will come with us now to my house , and you will remain there until the men you have accused have been taken and questioned . |
| 29 | The doctors did n't come into it much at all . |
| 30 | Perhaps she should try a different club and she would certainly receive a warm welcome should she come to ours here in Maidenhead . |