Example sentences of "it [vb past] come [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the turn of the century , the partnership of Jane Mason and G. Smith ran the mill , but by 1901 it had come into the hands of James Joiner , who had bought it from Crawshay and Co . |
| 2 | And it was n't Iris who told us , though she had known for some time that it had come through the Strait shortly after the Belgrano had been sunk . |
| 3 | When she arrived at the theatre that night she saw a note pinned up at the stage door stating that it had come to the management 's notice that a Girl had been flying , which was forbidden ! |
| 4 | It had come to the stage in 2020 when anyone who regarded Time as other than something that could be measured precisely by chronometer was shunned as an eccentric . |
| 5 | That had stopped the Ministry ‘ dead in its tracks ’ and it had come to the conclusion that if it denied premium to the rearer of suckled calves it would eventually be challenged by a hill farmer before the European Court . |
| 6 | So the flooding had not been from the lake — which hitherto I had assumed to be the case ; maybe it had come from the river whose bed , now dried , I had seen from my eminence on the hillside . |
| 7 | It had come from the London Group of members , but the Operations Department have not yet come to a decision on this . |
| 8 | One of their products was erm you , when you see in the cars th th that they can er make them open top and they close the backs down , there 's a bracket on the side that er hinges up and well they used to special you know , it had come from the landaus of the horse drawn vehicle , the same sort of thing , well they used to specialize in that and they used to make some kind of locks but I 'm I have never talked to anybody that worked there so I , I do n't know , but that 's the only other one as I , as I 'm aware of er was the , was Wilks 's and er Bloxwich Lock . |
| 9 | If the DEA had used it to provide a cover identity for somebody in Egypt , it could hardly admit that in open court or explain how it had come by the certificate in the first place . |