Example sentences of "[to-vb] come [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assistance to purchase came from the National Heritage Memorial Fund , which gave £100,000 , the National Art Collections Fund , which gave £50,000 and £250,000 from the legacies of the late Keith Andrews , keeper of the Gallery 's print room from 1958 to 1985 , and his sister . |
| 2 | The experience is like entering the catacombs and I would n't have been the least surprised to have come across the odd skull or two in this formidable kind of Davey Jones ' locker . |
| 3 | Wdowczyk , after only four competitive matches , looks one of the best players to have come to the Premier Division in years . |
| 4 | ‘ We seem to have come to the wrong place . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The weekly papers in the province seem to have come through the worst recession in living memory relatively unscathed . |
| 6 | We do not know in detail whence the monks were recruited ; but on the whole they seem mainly to have come from the upper classes , and perhaps from the families of substantial town-dwellers . |
| 7 | Adjoining Tommy Sparks was yet another pub , the street seemed to be full of them , this one was called The Catherine Wheel , an unusual name believed to have come from the eleventh century Knights of Saint Catherine of Mount Sinai . |
| 8 | During A.D. 57–8 , another Messiah appeared , said to have come from the Jewish community in Egypt . |
| 9 | " They do n't seem to have come from the British Army . " |
| 10 | I fear that they will eventually prove to have come from the Welsh Office , via the Cardiff Bay development corporation . |
| 11 | A fall in urban rent values can also be seen in Oxford , although the evidence cited is less comprehensive than that for York , and the most drastic fall seems to have come in the second half of the fifteenth century after a period of relative stability . |