Example sentences of "[verb] come [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Logically , it would make sense to assume that the aircraft failed to come up to the standards of performance and aggressive capability which the Soviets expected of it . |
| 2 | Middlesbrough 's shambolic defenders failed to come up with the answers to the riddles posed by Rosenthal 's direct running . |
| 3 | Another new face in the pack is lock Jeremy Cruiks who has come up through the ranks , while back in action are back-row duo Mark Hampton and David Croft , who fills in for injured number 8 Roger Wilson . |
| 4 | Here , black has come up from the streets and into the drawing room ; overleaf , neutral tones assert themselves . |
| 5 | Once a call has come through from the police the team initiates a ‘ cascade call ’ system where say , one person is responsible for telephoning six other team members . |
| 6 | CPMA Managing Director , Nigel Rushman , claims that several other sponsors have already signed for the Sevens spectacular in April at Murrayfield , but for a variety of reasons none has come out of the woods yet . |
| 7 | All the lights are up and cold air has come in with the officials . |
| 8 | This was used by Bourgeois and Certon for Ps. 36 and Goudimel for Ps. 68 , ‘ Que Dieu se montre seulement ’ , but has come down through the centuries as a hymn to Sebaldus Heyden 's words ‘ O Mensch bewein dein Sunde gross ’ . |
| 9 | This group is remarkable not only for the quality of its work , but also for the fact that no individual has ever been known by name ; only the corporate identity has come down across the years . |
| 10 | Never , since he was a child , had he missed coming up to the Foinmen on Beltane . |
| 11 | One Tory MP was seen coming out of the Whips ' office in tears before last night 's vote . |
| 12 | I think perhaps I 'd put that another way , but I do think there 's a definite sense in which change is going to come up through the colleges . |
| 13 | Next , her long red hair was pulled so hard she felt as if it was going to come out by the roots . |
| 14 | To make sure he asked Mr Litmus if he had seen or heard of a scientist being found coming out of the corridors . |
| 15 | I reckon he 'll probably come good in time , but we ca n't afford to leave it too long to wait for both him and Deano to start coming up with the goods . |
| 16 | The first type is that of new general orientations of a very wide sort , basic themes that keep coming back across the documents and hence can be said to characterize the Council 's mind and achievement as a whole . |
| 17 | Like rejected lovers returning to a trysting place , they kept coming back to the areas surrounding the station . |
| 18 | ‘ They 're going to have to come out of the forests … ’ he replied , with a grin like a Cheshire cat . |
| 19 | It is a great mistake : Barbara has to give up her small tress-shop and the cosy flat above where Percy liked to come round in the evenings ; while Percy , lacking that place of resort , now leaves her alone and goes out to play billiards . |
| 20 | Dass come up with the curtains , they 're down in the Courtesy Cleaners . |
| 21 | Thus all rations for the men at the front had to come up on the backs of other men . |
| 22 | And er , we 'll see that if they 've , if they 've come through with the goods all right . |
| 23 | Ankrah , commanding the Ghana army , was retired he was due for retirement anyway ( he had come up through the ranks and served in Burma ) . |
| 24 | At the end of a few minutes , he had agreed to get Landau , and she had come up with the names of banks and accounts for both Foster and Landau , and the place where he could lay hands on Pete Foster . |
| 25 | Last month PHILIP VANN looked at artists who had come up from the mines to become artists ; in this issue he concentrates on those artists who went down to the pit to paint |
| 26 | A wind had come through with the Josephites , and blown away the man 's whole world . |
| 27 | The train had come in from the sidings and stood in the station , warm and pulsing , its engines reattached , the horses and grooms on board and fresh foods and ice loaded . |
| 28 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |
| 29 | He had that look he used to get on Saturday mornings after he had come back from the shops . |
| 30 | Manpower had come down over the years from 470,000 in 1960 to 215,000 twenty years later , but the business was still over-staffed . |