Example sentences of "[conj] they came [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The country was bracken-clothed dunes , the plants so tall that they came over the horse 's withers in places . |
| 2 | But she stuck her feet out sideways so that they came against the wall of the hearth . |
| 3 | They told me that they came from the country near Lagrimone and that they had obtained permission to come to pray in the Santuario for their cousin who was fighting in Russia . |
| 4 | This did not mean that ideas and values came from some supernatural source , but it did mean that they came from the history of society , not the history of the individual . |
| 5 | I guessed that they came from the execution during the second war . |
| 6 | Seven or eight people — some prisoners and some guards — did n't want to run away , so they came into the room and waited , too . |
| 7 | Erm I know there had been occasion when we had people sleeping on the the stairway and you know , I think occasionally and but I think sometimes that was maybe somebody got home from a blues party , and had too much to drink or something , and they came into the warm , the heat w from the the downstairs flat , er k comes up on the stairwell , and I know there was someone sleeping there . |
| 8 | They learned part of the answer as dusk was falling and they came to the tower and castleton of Heiton , beyond Kale Water . |
| 9 | They 'd been for a meal and they came to the flat and they rung us to say they were there . |
| 10 | And they came to the palace with all their animals and lived happily together for many years . |
| 11 | Its a , during the course of the time of the crucifixion , Jesus is on the cross and its says there , there were two others also who were criminals , were being lead away to be put to death with Jesus and they came to the place called The Skull , there they crucified him and the criminals one on the right and the other on the left , but Jesus was saying father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing , and they cast locks divided up his garments among themselves and the people stood by and looking on and even the rulers was sneering at him excuse me , and even the rulers were sneering at him saying he saved others , let him save himself if this is the Christ of god , his chosen one , and the soldiers also mocked him , coming up to him offering sour wine and saying if your the king of the Jews save yourself now there was also an inscription above him , this is the kind of the Jews , and one of the criminals who was hanged there was hurling abut at him and saying you are not the Christ , save yourself and us , but the other answered and rebuking him said do you not even fear god , since you are under the same sentence of condemnation and we indeed justly for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds , but this man has done nothing wrong and he was say , and he was saying Jesus remember me when you come in your kingdom , Jesus said to him truly I say to you today you shall be with me in paradise I wonder if you 've ever been in that awful position of facing of what you thought was certain death perhaps you were seriously ill and er , there seemed little hope of your recovery , perhaps you were facing some danger , some , some risk and it seemed almost certain that short of a miracle you were gon na die , I wonder what sort of thoughts would have been going through your mind , maybe w , may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would of been saying to them . |
| 12 | ‘ I think back to people like Allan Clarke , who were annoyed if they came off the pitch without scoring a goal . |
| 13 | Whatever their basis in nefarious dealings , misunderstood intelligence , or dreams , noble things were being attempted , and if they came off the world would have cause to be grateful . |
| 14 | S some of them did yes if they came in the springtime and then in the ar in in the harvest time . |
| 15 | It did suggest that the principles of confidentiality should be preserved for a period of fifteen years instead of thirty , but that there should be no new machinery for enforcement since offenders would carry the risk of social and political sanctions , and , of course , if they came within the rubric of any existing legal restraint , such as the Official Secrets Act , they would run the risk of legal proceedings . |
| 16 | They walked along the canal until they came to the footbridge . |
| 17 | They drove slowly back down the mountain road until they came to the track that led up to the Zimmermann farmhouse . |
| 18 | Coleridge 's outstanding abilities remained quite unsuspected at Christ 's Hospital until they came to the attention of the Upper Grammar School master , the Revd James Boyer , a man whose great gifts as a teacher were only exceeded by his sadistically violent temper . |
| 19 | But they came with the chief being an Anglesey man you see , they came from Anglesey as well to erm they used to come a lot in and erm as apprentices you know And er Aye no , the ol same old game again that er we in Wales seem to inherit it 's in I suppose it 's in the B B C and everywhere is n't it . |
| 20 | ‘ But they came from the knacker 's , ’ Hoomey said . |
| 21 | It was the highest stand for Yorkshire at Acklam Park since they came to the ground in 1956 , beating the 188 for the fifth wicket by current coach Doug Padgett and Vic Wilson against Sussex in 1960 . |
| 22 | Each pie chart shows the proportion of axes found in three areas , classified as to whether they came from the south Downs , Wessex , East Anglia or other mines ( after Craddock et al , 1983 ) . |
| 23 | She was not gracious to those whose arguments she rejected , whether they came from the opposition or her own party , as Aneurin Bevan [ q.v. ] and Michael Foot were both , at different times , to discover . |
| 24 | Now we 're on the road , er , let's see what other goodies we 've got over here going on , oh , yes , we 're checking out how well people are being briefed before they came on the course . |
| 25 | I mean before they came to the centre I think people felt Save The Children only did work in countries abroad . |
| 26 | When they came into the light her mother saw the child 's face covered in blood and felt faint . |
| 27 | When they came to the river they stopped . |
| 28 | Against all the odds it has worked , and this is a measure of just how strong they both were as individuals when they came to the marriage ten years ago . |
| 29 | They made a dam on the stream , which was something they often did when they came to the spinney . |
| 30 | And when they came to the sea , so great was the press among them to get to the ships , that more than ten thousand died in the water . |