Example sentences of "[adv] come [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 They asked me a few questions and they said , ‘ You 'd better come along to the police station . ’
2 The theory seems to be ( 1 ) that some act — noticing a resemblance — must precede uttering the word ‘ white ’ for the person who utters the word genuinely to be describing the object , and not merely coming out with the words , ‘ It 's white ’ as might a parrot , no matter what it was shown ; and ( 2 ) that the resemblance the theory requires one to have noticed , which is supposed to justify one 's calling it white as opposed , say , to blue , is what one is referring to when one calls the object ‘ white ’ .
3 These three members of the Procellariidae family have one thing in common : they are all ‘ night birds ’ , only coming in to the screes and grassy slopes of the cliffs under cover of darkness to change places with their mate on the single egg , deep within a burrow , or later to feed the young .
4 The first Unix Reseller Show & Conference , set for May 4–6 , 1993 in Dallas , is apparently coming out of the blocks stronger than anticipated .
5 there and perhaps coming on to the Residents ' Association point that made in their proof , that our forecasts actually show that on balance , er er there would be an increase in flow in fact on the on that route as it approaches the A sixty one .
6 Nearly two decades later his installation Art Show at the Centre Pompidou foregrounded figures with tape decks for hearts , which gave out phoney art jargon , with hot air literally coming out of the figures ’ vents ( Rickey 1983 ) .
7 and what you 've got to be very careful , cos you ca n't offer them and not come up with the goods
8 ‘ These have just come through from the printers . ’
9 This was odd , since the BBC had just come up with the figures of 301 for the Tories and 298 for Labour .
10 ‘ This report has just come in from the Environments Officer .
11 When she had finished she turned to Nara , who had just come back with the things she needed and was peering round the door , as if he was too scared of her magic to come right in .
12 She promised to find out , and she 's just come back with the results .
13 The peasants , having just come out to the fields , turn back , uttering loud cries .
14 Just came out of the Magistrates Court and dropped down dead .
15 I notice it 's not coming out of the police authority budget , it 's coming out of publi , er this , this er committee 's budget .
16 I suppose my shadow calculated that I would soon come in off the streets , or perhaps he was using the opportunity to go through my baggage .
17 It does not come up with the rations .
18 Does the Secretary of State agree that when local democracy does not come up with the results that he wants he abolishes it ?
19 All the smart money for the first to finally come up with the goods is on John Lasseter of Pixar , the perennial star of animation festivals and the winner of the 1989 animation Oscar for the short film Tin Toy .
20 Young men still came up to the colleges , but they reminded Lewis of his own position in 1917 , when his glimpse of Oxford life was just a prelude to the horrors of battle .
21 It was not a position which enhanced his personal popularity , but while he was still coming up with the stories Murray 's position was unassailable .
22 Afterwards I sit with him in the room at the back , the late afternoon light still coming in through the windows .
23 I always come back to the Stones when I think of The Smiths , because of the camp , but mainly because of the way each band illuminates their era for us .
24 and about fifteen of the erm eight , eight , five troop chasing after me , it was like our sister troop yeah , we were , there was three troops in our squadron , eight , eight , five , eight , eight , six and eighty , eighty , seven and then there was three squadrons and a regiments , there was nine troops there , so like , if it , basically it was your troop and nobody else , but then it was your squadron and , and anybody else and then the few times that I , on regiment it was your regiment and nobody else , like , we could touch you cos your our regiment but if you try and touch us , you can get fucking hell , but it nearly always come down to the troops , and the thing is eight , eight , six , only had , the first year that I was there we 'd only had about thirty people , fourth year there had I opposed like fifty , sixty and seventy , second year we were there we had about forty- five opposed to like sixty , seventy , eighty , and the third year there we had about fifty opposed like fucking seventy , eighty and ninety in a , in a troop , so we were always well out numbered and we were by far the most outrageous
25 If an inner-city supplies free art galleries , financed out of taxes on inner-city inhabitants , the rich still come in from the suburbs to make use of these facilities .
26 He always comes up with the goods on the day . ’
27 I think that 's probably come down through the years and things are still that way for musicians : get them as cheap as you can and never give them the credit that they deserve . ’
28 But changes in the home could also come about through the affairs of other family members .
29 He really came up with the goods .
30 The next generation of OLTP technologies now coming out of the labs are based upon reliable queuing mechanisms — messaging services which allow distributed OLTP systems to be linked together but which maintain the integrity of transactions .
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