Example sentences of "come [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The news of the day was that British tanks had got across the Irrawaddy near Meiktila , having come down the Chindwin valley . |
| 2 | Is it not the case that although the wage increases of British workers have come down the benefits of that have been dissipated , and that due to the recession induced by the Government productivity has gone down although it has gone up in Germany and as a result unit labour costs in the year to the second quarter of 1991 went up by 3 per cent . |
| 3 | The barges used to come down the Leeds and Liverpool canal right down to Tate and Lyle 's , where they had chutes that came down from the building into the barges and the coal was sucked up because the coal was very fine ; and the poor people there — they 'd be on the other side of the canal and one would perhaps get on a barge and throw two or three pieces of coal and then scamper up . |
| 4 | And they said we do n't mean to be over the men , but what we mean is for you to come down the office , no what the office wants as regards orders , and be responsible and pass them out to the men who you 'll think who 'll do the job best and all that , and that 's what we mean . |
| 5 | My mother used to er whe when we were younger used to come down the for a days ' scrubbing , charring . |
| 6 | You could go with the travel club , I suppose , but then you do n't get the chance to come down the Three Goats Heads pub in the city centre before and after the match and meet everyone else from the list — hopefully . |
| 7 | If you were to come down the Cowley Road — I invite you to come down and and come and see the situation , because , you know , if I said okay anyone can smoke or drink in the church or churchyard in Saint Mary and John , the building would be full , not full literally , but we 'd have people all day in there smoking and drinking and there would be nowhere quiet for people to pray . |
| 8 | Unfortunately for our timing one of the hosts suddenly said , ‘ I 'm sure you do n't want any coffee , Prime Minister , you 've just come off the plane . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've just come off the Isle of Man boat . ’ |
| 10 | May I , as someone who has recently come off the dole , comment on Donald Gould 's article ( Forum , 20 January , p 180 ) . |
| 11 | At last the restoration was completed and R5868 looked as if it had just come off the production line , a fine tribute to F/L Peaple and his team . |
| 12 | The tot , Britain 's most premature surviving child , had just come off the danger list after a three-month fight for life . |
| 13 | Although Vinny Samways has now come off the transfer list , Spurs look light in the key area . |
| 14 | He said ‘ The RS/6000 is not big now in Hungary , and it has only recently come off the Comecon list . |
| 15 | Shetland sheep are an example of a breed which has recently come off the Rare Breed Survival Trusts ' books , largely due to its popularity with small flock owners . |
| 16 | I 've now come off the pill without telling my boyfriend . |
| 17 | He has not yet come off the fence and told us whether he supports the barrage project . |
| 18 | The front of the jeep was as clean as if it had just come off the boat from Japan . |
| 19 | They would have to come home the long way round . |
| 20 | She was also a kind of mascot of the liberal intelligentsia — had she not come up the hard way from the very bottom of the heap to stand by Miller 's side defying the anti-Communist witch-hunters who wanted to jail him ? |
| 21 | But as a manager he 's come up the hard way and is burning to make the point that little guys get no favours . |
| 22 | Giving the vote , in effect , not only to men like Goldsborough who had always had it as a birthright , but to men like himself and Ben Braithwaite 's father who had come up the hard way . |
| 23 | Well anyway erm they it was interesting , they all seemed rather positive and the reason they were positive is because they perceive him as classless , as somebody who 's actually come up the hard way , who 's experienced the down side of life and who 's nevertheless , through hard work and perseverance and so on , triumphed over that , and actually reached the highest post in the land , and erm they seemed to feel that there was a erm that this was a good thing , that somebody who 's had experience of erm the less privileged side of life , somebody who , and I quote ‘ was n't born with a silver spoon in is mouth , and did n't got to public school and that sort of thing knows more about what 's life for the average person ’ and I agree with that . |
| 24 | Just needs a string of natives bearing head bundles and brollies to come up the footpath . ’ |
| 25 | feeling as it were ready to come up the way you were swallowing it you could feel it . |
| 26 | And if you were an important enough visitor , you were allowed to come up the privy stair and straight into the great chamber . |
| 27 | If he happened to come up the way . |
| 28 | But I could n't remember where the turn off was to come up the scenic route . |
| 29 | Yeah , mm , now do you want to come up the town ? |
| 30 | She had emigrated with half her family to England when a baby , but they had all come back the night an auntie 's house in Derry had been seen on TV news , with the sofa flying from an upstairs window and loyalist thugs pouring petrol on the geraniums . |