Example sentences of "[pron] come [prep] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inspired , yes , by a bus run , but the booler is definitely my own husband who is devoted to sport and allows nothing to come in the way of his bowls , both indoor and outdoor bowling . |
| 2 | After a short , complicated conversation in our melange of languages , she left me to battle with my clothes and the shower , returning only to tell me to come to the house of Sheikha Grandmother . |
| 3 | Within half an hour of breaking camp , I came over the brow of a hill — compacted earth with pockets of drifted sand . |
| 4 | When at last I came to the start of the mad little road to Lochinver , I followed it over the bleak moorland , Stac Polly now appearing as a black spire in a halo of sunlight . |
| 5 | Then I came to the photo of another man . |
| 6 | I came to the end of the bridge , where technically my territory stops , and stood still for a while , thinking , feeling , listening and looking and smelling . |
| 7 | However , I came round the side of the house as a last resort and , as you see , my initiative paid off . ’ |
| 8 | May I come to the aid of your correspondents who have been so severely maligned for daring to question the divine right of the English to claim the whole of these islands as their own ? |
| 9 | On to the main road , which runs through the island and , apart from the sheep eking out a sparse living on the dead heather , there is little moving until I come to the head of Whalfirth , a long arm of the sea which pushes in from the west until it nearly cuts the island in half . |
| 10 | And here I come to the crux of what I want to say . |
| 11 | And this is where I come to the point of cooperation and maybe more with other unions . |
| 12 | I am uncomfortably bemused , so I come to the point of my visit . |
| 13 | The phone is ringing as I come through the door of my office . |
| 14 | I owe a great deal to my education many years ago , as I come from the background of a Welsh mining village , where a high proportion of us ended up with university degrees — a far higher rate than in many posher , salubrious , suburban areas . |
| 15 | ‘ I come from the background of human marvels , ’ says Rose , a globally travelled street performer for 12 years before forming the circus in 1991 . |
| 16 | A visiting minister performed the burial service , a man who was lending the chapel a helping hand during the interregnum which came between the departure of Samuel Saunders and the arrival of Thomas Fox Newman . |
| 17 | ‘ La guerre des flics is alive and well , ’ Roquelaure confirmed , referring to the notorious rivalry between the police and the security organisations , including the gendarmerie , which came under the Ministry of Defence . |
| 18 | I asked if his telephone would work at the next big stop which came under the heading of serious to me . |
| 19 | In the first place , it must be realised that the ‘ goods and chattels ’ that comprised personal estate did not include the value of buildings and land , which came under the heading of real estate . |
| 20 | The strong winds took their toll throughout the day with most competitors finding themselves going overboard at some point during the faces , which came under the control of Bolton Sailing Club officials . |
| 21 | In the fifteenth century it had been a practical way of making agriculture more profitable , in the sixteenth it was more likely to create a vagrancy problem as men were dispossessed from the land , and this indeed was a social issue which came to the forefront of public attention in the Tudor period . |
| 22 | Bonanza Boy finished a remote eighth in the race and is 10lb worse off with Little Polveir but it is unwise to judge him on that performance which came at the end of a long season after some punishing contests . |
| 23 | In general , both leaders stressed their unanimity on all the main subjects , including the last-minute question of the Soviet ultimatum to Lithuania [ see p. 37361 ] , which came at the end of the summit and which both leaders roundly condemned . |
| 24 | A change which came with the formation of Chemicals & Polymers was the switching of methanol to the petrochemicals business . |
| 25 | The second most important power which came with the ownership of the Golden Share was the right of veto over the hiring and firing of the editor . |
| 26 | Firms in North Wales here along the coast which came after the war of course . |
| 27 | The deal , which came against the background of rising tension between Hungary and neighbouring Romania , Serbia and Czechoslovakia , followed a recent agreement for the supply of Russian military spares and air-defence equipment to Hungary [ see p. 39200 ] . |
| 28 | The Taylor Report on crowd safety , which came in the wake of the Hillsborough Disaster , left many clubs with archaic stadiums facing an uncertain future as they battled against time and their balance-sheets in an attempt to meet safety regulations and secure all-seater facilities . |
| 29 | Until changes which came in the wake of the First World War , in which the scions of landed families fell alongside the sons of tenant farmers in the trenches by the Somme , such tenancies , to judge from the evidence , commonly remained in one farming family over several generations . |
| 30 | But typewriters we had problems with because , if they went in for repair , you never got them back from the Ordinance Core , and so at one place in Tunbridge Wells we handed a typewriter in and because the army were allowed to buy greaseproof paper , we bought a lot of greaseproof paper which came in the package of a new typewriter . |