Example sentences of "come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The judge described their life together as a story of high achievement and glorious success , which had come through unrelenting hard work , unlimited self-sacrifice and absolute determination . |
| 2 | Thirty years later my volunteering instinct has come through intact but I still mistrust the American Air Force . |
| 3 | They have come through it all with courage and resilience but the community support structures have been ruptured and have not yet been re-established — and perhaps never will be in the same way . |
| 4 | Her first job as a voluntary residential social worker was looking after juveniles who had ‘ come through the system of care ’ . |
| 5 | Ten years on , however , Charles and Diana have come through it . |
| 6 | They have come through five rounds already , enough to take a First Division side to Wembley . |
| 7 | They have come through five rounds already , enough to take a First Division side to Wembley . |
| 8 | However in the past few days Hanley has come through a series of rigorous tests , and his return was hastened by the absence of Andy Goodway , who broke a finger at Headingley last Saturday . |
| 9 | As Allen Saddler 's notice so rightly says , many of the Labour MPs who swept to power in 1945 had come through J.P.M. 's schools and were thus well armed to fight for the legislation which so transformed society after the second world war . |
| 10 | She had come through her sternest test , she had proven the singing budgie brigade was woefully wrong and that she was now ready to take her career into the even more rarefied atmosphere occupied by only a tiny handful of superstars . |
| 11 | Since so much capital has external sources , the bourgeoisie have not come through the same phase of saving and investment , as did their European counterparts , but have moved straight to a consumption stage . |
| 12 | If you think about it , the majority of bosses in the media are — not actually uneducated — but they have not by and large come through the graduate tracks . |
| 13 | Poetry alone is worldwide and limitless ; and even through the mangling of translation , the images of beauty come through a hundred tongues unsullied . |
| 14 | ‘ One of our most pressing problems ’ , he concluded , ‘ is how to deal with the human waste which has come through the discarding of the services of workers unable to adjust to the new requirements ’ . |
| 15 | Most additional public-sector investment has come through capital allowances . |
| 16 | We were downstairs , laid out like sardines under the Morrison shelter , but when this happened my Dad was up like a shot and racing up the stairs with a bucket of sand , ready to throw it over what we assumed was an incendiary bomb which had come through the roof . |
| 17 | Apparently Hank 's divorce had come through sooner than expected , the deed was done one Saturday afternoon in the local Registrar 's Office , and she came back to Bourn wearing a wedding ring like a brass curtain ring ( Mary 's words ) , to await her discharge from the Waaf . |
| 18 | ‘ We have come through a very critical emergency and come out in good shape , ’ aid NASA 's satellite programme director , Robert Adler . |
| 19 | The company 's 1991 figures , to be announced this month , are likely to confirm him as one of the few 1980s entrepreneurs to have come through the recession unscathed . |
| 20 | Already this year £12.3m of new business has come through AMV 's doors from Ciga Hotels , Douwe Egbert , Pillsbury , Weetabix , Knight Williams and Smith & Nephew . |
| 21 | Ann , the daughter of Joe 's partner , was Larry 's fiance/1e , and now wants to marry Joe 's surviving son , Chris , who has come through the war unscathed . |
| 22 | He could not get over the fact that the only woman who had come through the near-impossible screening , then training , had not been some six foot Amazon with a face like Atilla the Hun — but a petite , feminine five foot three in her stockinged feet , who turned all the men 's head when she passed . |
| 23 | He had inherited four major outlets : in New York , Paris , London and Rome , all of which had come through the war intact , all of which were in prime locations , and all of which had suffered from neglect . |
| 24 | Peter 's got one of the best short games around and that 's come through hours of practice . |
| 25 | Like the rest of his peers , Newton 's signings have come through his own personal network . |
| 26 | was reputed to have come through three days later . ’ |
| 27 | Against odds of four to one , he had come through alive . |
| 28 | ‘ I have come through five heart attacks for my dogs and will carry on fighting , ’ she said . |
| 29 | He 's come through the game well , ’ said McCarthy . |
| 30 | Clearly we have come through the worst of the recession . |