Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] come [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Before 12 o'clock my horse came to the door , but I could n't put the book down .
2 My help cometh from the Lord . "
3 My help comes from the Lord , the Maker of heaven and earth . ’
4 yes , erm my wife came from the Midlands , from Coventry and her family roots were in Coventry at the Midlands , in fact there she still has numerous nieces and nephews and great nephews and great nieces there to this day , my with the exception of a sister who moved , who , to Basildon , erm I have two brothers and er they still live in London , still live in East Ham , er the distance is not too great erm and , but obviously as we get older the amount of visiting we do will be constricted by the difficulties of getting from Harlow to East Ham especially when one is compelled to stop driving a motor car
5 My father came from the Clyde , and I 've still got some cousins near Dunoon .
6 He lived in at that time just over the road er down the road here and then something went wrong during the war that was over my father and er cos matter of fact when my father come off the dredger erm the Harbourmaster wanted to give him er he give him the push and turned round and he said my father name was .
7 I ran downstairs to the phone , hearing my father coming to the door of his room as I passed it .
8 Well , since you are so interested , this is my cousin come from the Neath Valley to help in the business .
9 Instinctively , my hand came off the bat and I knocked the ball away .
10 Ah well that was when my son came in the business .
11 ‘ We would n't want my son to come into the world without his father 's name now , would we , eh ? ’
12 ‘ Perhaps the ghost of my mother came with the bed . ’
13 On that Tuesday morning my mother came with the doctor and took him to a spare bedroom , leaving the door ajar .
14 And my mother came from the farm along the shore and they were in the same position they worked with boats too .
15 Its decision comes as the Forum , which sponsors OmniPoint , nears agreement on conformance testing .
16 Her mum came down the street steaming from the chip shop , and she rushed us inside and got me to make a pot of tea while she shared them all out between the three of us , and we all sat round their fire eating them .
17 Once she 'd made her decision to come to the Dordogne , Sabine had read up as much as possible on the area , and she knew that Bergerac wines had been overshadowed in the past by the great vignobles of Bordeaux .
18 In short , they and their children would be condemned to grinding poverty and , if their income comes from the state , to permanent state surveillance , not in this case for cohabitation but for ‘ scrounging ’ .
19 In the morning foursomes Alliss and Dawson were level par for 17 holes in defeating Bruce Critchley and Warren Humphreys on the 18th green , the only blemish on their card coming in the shape of a 7 on the 7th hole .
20 Her moment came at the end of the first course when , without any apparent signal , the parlourmaid came back into the room .
21 RITUALISTIC as it was , the Tory grass-roots ' orgiastic display of support for their leader came from the heart yesterday .
22 See I know why cos you see her husband he do n't and cos when her husband come for the kids Bob was there and he said I ai n't bloody well going out to them .
23 Somebody had seen her mid-morning coming from the lighthouse
24 But ‘ the social worker put her name down for an EMI bed — eventually her name came to the top of the waiting list , and the social worker put her in .
25 Its name comes from the cormorants ' nests which in the past were ranged in rows along shelves in the wet black rock , like jars in a chemist 's shop .
26 There are holes in the essential goodness of the universe , St Augustine had written , through which Evil comes into the world .
27 As she set the pot on the table , her father came into the kitchen , his beard dark with melting snow .
28 Her father came into the room , looking like an unreformed convict in his striped pyjamas , his grey hair upright at the back of his head , a smouldering cigarette held in one cupped hand and his mug of tea in the other .
29 She breathed in to say something , but her father came round the corner of the stage .
30 She heard her father come into the house and call out for her , and she called back that she would be down in a moment , as soon as she was dressed .
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