Example sentences of "[noun] come [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this occasion he had , after the expenditure of many millions , built a refinery in Newfoundland , and he telephoned me to ask whether I could persuade Winston Churchill to come to the grand opening . |
| 2 | Fine fibred polypropylene fleece used as a ‘ Floating Cloche ’ is one of the most useful new products to come onto the horticultural scene in years . |
| 3 | Charlie is unaware of the spirits alive in him , so that the narrator of the story is frustrated in his attempt to come at the uncluttered account of past lives . |
| 4 | When Therese came on the entire evening lifted into top gear . |
| 5 | The allegation came on the third day of an insurance fraud trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court . |
| 6 | Calls for an inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) of the Yongbyon nuclear power complex came after the alleged discovery by United States monitoring services , reported in the Washington Post in August 1989 , of an apparent new reprocessing facility , capable of producing enough plutonium to manufacture one atomic bomb per year . |
| 7 | The Bush broadside came on the last day of the Republicans ' convention in Houston , Texas . |
| 8 | It 's funny er when Richard came in the other day and said he 'd been he 'd been to the dentist and you said oh well they have n't been in touch with us yet . |
| 9 | Books came from the central library in Salisbury by the train load . |
| 10 | The softly spoken command came from the third man , who had remained silent until now . |
| 11 | Production rose with population , too : between 1880 and 1912 4 million more acres came under the main food crops . |
| 12 | Part of the confusion came from the unworthy pleasure given him by the prospect of holding onto his ward a little longer . |
| 13 | The cities in Ancona came under the imperial governor . |
| 14 | The doors stayed open but no murmur came from the other room . |
| 15 | ‘ There 's a chap called Summers came in the other day . |
| 16 | The rugs came from the antique department at Liberty in London . ’ |
| 17 | Louisa had been skidding unsteadily about the ice for the best part of an hour when a carriage came round the rear drive of the Hall and , after a moment 's debate , Edwin Frere sprang down to give a helping hand to his well-muffled wife . |
| 18 | Their goals came in the first half , Scot Sammy Johnston opening his account for the club and |
| 19 | The allegations of drug-taking sessions came on the first day of Murray 's trial before Lord Kirkwood . |
| 20 | His words came as the parliamentary chairman , Ruslan Khasbulatov , Mr Yeltsin 's arch-rival , appeared to retract his demands that the president be removed . |
| 21 | It was quite an exciting and exacting task to work out the meaning of basic Christian terms , for in Burmese almost all the abstract nouns and religious words came from the religious language of Buddhism . |
| 22 | St. Clement Danes was an old-fashioned school which would have liked to have been more middle class than it was Unfortunately most of the kids came from the White City Estate which is about as working class as you can get |
| 23 | The first chance of real action came in the late summer of 1940 after the retreat from Dunkirk . |
| 24 | Then a little light came through the uncovered spyhole , a flickering , surreptitious light . |
| 25 | Early morning summer light came through the barred window and lay on his uncovered back , making a checkered pattern with his freshly healed wounds . |
| 26 | The study was empty ; the light came from the adjacent room . |
| 27 | The only light came from the big fire . |
| 28 | Czechs in Cleveland to learn how to cope with job losses WAYS in which the North-East came through the industrial upheaval of the '70s and '80s could prove an invaluable blueprint for revival for the people of Czechoslovakia . |
| 29 | The first hint that there might be a connection between black holes and thermodynamics came with the mathematical discovery in 1970 that the surface area of the event horizon , the boundary of a black hole , has the property that it always increases when additional matter or radiation falls into the black hole . |
| 30 | Man 's early faith in the original ‘ god ’ forerunners came from the apparent success which on some occasions appeared to attend the involvement of them in the troubles that beset him . |