Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It turned out to have come in through the curved zip which is unprotected by a weather flap .
2 This beggar had come in to the fitting shop , corner at the back corner , where he should n't have been .
3 What I might actually do it see if Ian 's not doing anything if he not come in for the full time that they 're cleaning up , but come in for those sort of things .
4 Only a party bigot would claim that they had somehow come in with the Conservative Government three years earlier .
5 Reproaching herself for not having unlocked it when she had come in from the main door , she rose quickly and went to open up .
6 If Lili had come in by the back door it had been very late indeed .
7 Fairfax — Fahfakhs — who was a big man in the government had come down to the little town where Tepilit was held .
8 My only other close encounter with a paraglider was finding one grounded in a quagmire in the Arrochar Alps , where the poor man had come down in the wrong glen , leaving him miles to walk back to any road .
9 Either a spark had come down from the old fellow 's hole up there or him with hobnail boots had trod on er black powder and set it off and his hole went out underneath his feet .
10 Sorry , the ghost has n't come over from the other side of the door , it just keeps moving by itself .
11 They 've also come up with the quaint idea of having a T-shirt recycling stall in the club where you can take your old T-shirts and get a new Dodgy one in exchange .
12 This hits application performance , but the company has come up with the innovative idea of letting users run NLMs in protected mode until they are proved stable , after which they can be invited into the same memory segment as the core operating system to boost performance .
13 The Social Democrat Edith Niehuis has come up with the dubious argument that , because of the Catholic approach to female priests ( who have practised in the Protestant Church here for two decades ) , the tax is an ‘ unconstitutional discrimination against women ’ .
14 Now , last weekend 's cycle ride down the new section of the M forty once looked threatened by being blown away as the Met Office warned of impending storms , but in fact the sun shone down on the riders and today , less than a week the counting is done and Mike Biddolph from Oxfordshire County Council , who also took part in the event , has come up with the grand total of — how much have you raised Mike ?
15 It 's very new to me ; it 's just too bad that they still have n't come up with the perfect guitar synth .
16 Even then , major subscribers like the US and the USSR had not come up with the necessary money .
17 East Grinstead , West Sussex-based company Shakespeare Speechwriter UK Ltd , formerly EMG Software , has come up with the ultimate system for keyboard-phobes — a voice activated personal computer .
18 JOHN KASMIN , or ‘ Kasmin ’ , as everyone calls him , has come up with the ultimate solution to the art slump .
19 So , we 've come up with the Practical PC-ometer .
20 It can not be much fun to have a big crowd turn against you when you have come up with the top score of the day , inspired your team , and done your best to uphold the game 's standards of decency and chivalry .
21 The legend recounted how seventy translators had worked in independent cells and had all come up with the identical version of the sacred text .
22 It had been such a tight squeeze to get the Princess into the boat house at all , that someone had come up with the bright idea of removing the edge boards from the quay platforms on either side .
23 In the USA , I discovered from a report by Dermot Pungavie in the Daily Mail , for those mourners who wish to view but are short of time , one funeral director in Chicago has come up with the novel idea of drive-in viewing .
24 This confirms that Rentokil Healthcare come up to the high standard expected and specified by BSI .
25 ( Like many British design engineers at the time — and unlike Continental or American ones — he had no university training and had come up through the usual apprenticeship route with evening and part-time study . )
26 Er , this refers back to something said , a little while ago , talking about the fitness of judges , having come up through the legal system .
27 ‘ They seemed convinced a whole lot of people had come up from the big city to show off , to be grandees , which was far from the truth .
28 I have come back to the international scene with a fierce rival in Phil Tufnell , with Ian Salisbury breathing down our necks and Hampshire 's young Sean Udal making great strides every season .
29 The devilish smile , oblique and sharp as a scar , had come back to the gaunt face .
30 We had come back like the full circle of our route , intact .
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