Example sentences of "[verb] come [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There have been a number of occasions in the past when stories have appeared in the press saying what the figures are going to be in one or two days ’ time … but when someone quotes exactly the figure which is going to come out the next day it is hard to believe they just made an inspired guess . |
| 2 | And if you were an important enough visitor , you were allowed to come up the privy stair and straight into the great chamber . |
| 3 | They went to total excess and then they had to come back the other way . |
| 4 | Now they 've come out the front door and the bus is running er coming down the road so they 're running for that bus , so they 're using up their energy , the insulin level 's there , but the energy level is going down . |
| 5 | Giving the vote , in effect , not only to men like Goldsborough who had always had it as a birthright , but to men like himself and Ben Braithwaite 's father who had come up the hard way . |
| 6 | In the end it was Mary who had to calm Martin down , reassure him and promise to come back the next day . |
| 7 | But as a manager he 's come up the hard way and is burning to make the point that little guys get no favours . |