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

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1 Sure enough he came up with the perfect solution .
2 In terms of Greater York and its th the York greenbelt I think it 's true to say that er some time ago when David Kaiserman of Manchester did research on greenbelts he came to the view , or he came up with the conclusions from his questionnaires that he sent round , and that study was done , must be ten , fifteen years ago or more , that greenbelts should endure unchanged for at least twenty years , and probably in excess of thirty , and those were the responses of county planning and other major planning authorities at that time , that view if anything has hardened , the public view would be way beyond thirty years .
3 He came up with the electric clock , a form of fire alarm , a railway signal and a loudspeaker .
4 He came up on the other side shaking dirt from his fine white feathers .
5 Old Hewlett-Packard Co hands say that back in their day Lew Platt never looked to be a contender for the presidency : they are gratified to see him elevated since he came up on the Unix side and wonder how much should be read into that .
6 But anyway , he came up on the Monday er sorry , on the Friday when they was paying out , he said , Which chappie paid you ?
7 He came up on the train for a few days , very nervous , wearing his best suit .
8 He 'd been sitting apparently fascinated by my World Religions class , and when he came up at the end I was sure he wanted to ask a question about Zoroastrianism or Thuggee , or whatever damned thing I 'd been going on about .
9 ‘ He 's coming this way , ’ said Lee who was still looking at Jack as he came up to the gate , his eyes fixed on the gun .
10 ‘ Apparently his boat came in sooner than expected and docked at Shields , and he came up to the house hoping to see my sister , and he did .
11 He came up to the house that evening , armed with the music box and the monkey .
12 He wrinkled his nose as he came up to the other man .
13 He had been thinking about buying Lyn a kitten for her birthday , and as he came up to the great dolmen , had paused to look at it for the thousandth time , he had seen the bundle on the ground .
14 He came up to the Hilder at the point where the aqueduct pillars crossed it .
15 ‘ So he came up to the farm , and they had a job for my horse , which he was very interested in .
16 What a strange wedding-gift he had given her too , when he came up to the manor the other afternoon , making her feel like a tenant in her own home ; which , of course , had once been his .
17 As he came up over the rise he thought he heard a beautiful song .
18 He came up off the floor in one swift , powerful lunge , slamming the full force of his body into Boisson and driving him back towards the dungeon before the man could gather himself for another swing .
19 Perhaps he came up against the Edwardian equivalent of a conservation lobby .
20 Her father , when he came up before the Farnham Commission , had proved extraordinarily resilient , but he had still caved in , and then he had proved richly satisfying .
21 He came up from the ranks .
22 They walked out to his car together in a contented silence , and when they got there he came round to the passenger side to hold back the low tendrils of an overhanging jasmine vine so she could slide easily into the seat .
23 That fact that it was over was all there in his formal goodbye when he came round to the passenger 's side and stood on the pavement with her , and , ‘ Na shledanou , Fabia , ’ he wished her .
24 And he was extremely annoyed that evening when he came round at the interval .
25 and so he came round with the bread and he said I 'll let you have the recipe and I thought , so I am now
26 I had one night of that , and when he came round in the morning , I told him .
27 He said he felt no pain , apart from injections which he has never been fond of , and when he came round from the operation the first thing he asked for was the Ipswich football scores and a drink .
28 Harry asked as he came unexpectedly into the room .
29 He came forward into the room to stand close to her and bent to look into her face .
30 He came forward into the firelight then and she saw he had been sitting beside the range , in an old rocking chair which he had left tilting back and forth , to take the lantern from her , grasping her free hand in his .
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