Example sentences of "he [verb] come [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Hick has a classic stance , but by the time the bowler has reached the crease he has come up into the familiar upright position with the bat raised . |
2 | Unmistakably , though , he has come down on the side of the demonstrators and against Erich Honecker , the East German leader . |
3 | He has come out into the road wearing slippers . |
4 | In common with some other contributors to Essays in Criticism he had come around to the view that the object of English should be to develop in students a " trained mind " rather than to produce " literary critics " or even " good readers " . |
5 | That she had always been in control before he had come on to the scene and turned everything upside-down . |
6 | But Wordsworth had already proposed in his Guide that the Lake District should be made ‘ a sort of national property in which every man has a right and interest who has an eye to perceive and a heart to enjoy ’ ; we can now see that , over a hundred years before his time , he had come up with the idea of a National Park . |
7 | Ankrah , commanding the Ghana army , was retired he was due for retirement anyway ( he had come up through the ranks and served in Burma ) . |
8 | He had come up from the bottom and made it to the top : no one was to forget that he was at the top and everyone was supposed to forget where he had come from and how he had got where he was . |
9 | In the twilight of the Great Drought he had come down to the river and filled his wheelbarrow with water until only a Samson could have moved it . |
10 | He had come down to the gallery to join the houseparty , he thought simply to look at a new sculpture , before they all returned to the house for luncheon . |
11 | He had come down to the Club that night with a real purpose , a purpose only half of which had been carried out at the meeting . |
12 | He had come down to the island to make sure all was well while his grandfather was in hospital . |
13 | Than the shops gave place to boarding houses and the hill began ; it was a twin of the one he had come down from the car park . |
14 | Because then Jesus said to him , who was he talking to , let's , let's start off on the verse one after er after he had come down from the mountains , great crowds followed him that 's Jesus is n't it ? |
15 | After wartime service in the RAF he had come back to the School , and with his friends Mr. Norris and Mr. Hardie had helped to introduce Rugby to the School . |
16 | ‘ To us , he had come back from the dead , ’ his mother , Camilla Swann , said yesterday . |
17 | he had come back from the meeting with Patrick , and he had opened a bottle of whisky … automatically his had reached for it , found it between his legs , and he was raising it to his lips when the hurried knocking shook the door again . |
18 | He had that look he used to get on Saturday mornings after he had come back from the shops . |
19 | Far from it : he had come out of the darkness and was full of hope and plans . |
20 | Although she had rejected his dinner invitation , somehow he had come out of the scene the victor . |
21 | He had come in at the door , he had lain down with her , he had been her lover . |
22 | It was a relief when Stephen Copley , the Senior Chemist , arrived just before ten , bustling in as usual , his rubicund face with its tonsure and fringe of black curly hair glistening as if he had come in from the sun . |
23 | ‘ He 's come up through the Ministry . |
24 | From what I 've heard he 's come up in the world since he went to work for Christian Timms . |
25 | oh he 's come back for the , this , to show to you . |
26 | I mean he 's come out over the top of his own defenders and i over big Ormanroyd and he can do little else but push it back down into the pack . |