Example sentences of "[that] they come [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the middle there is a little pond with a fountain , and the golden carp that swim in it are so tame that they come at the sound of Dennis 's voice . |
| 2 | We can not close our eyes to the fact that if the arguments advanced on behalf of the appellant in relation to this ground of appeal are soundly based , then there is , not a small lacuna , but a yawning gap in the protection for the public afforded by section 16 of the Act of 1968 through which a large number of dishonest persons can — by arranging matters so that they come within the definition of ‘ self-employed ’ — escape conviction and punishment for the kind of deceitful conduct of which the jury , by their verdicts in the instant case , found this appellant to be guilty . |
| 3 | The country was bracken-clothed dunes , the plants so tall that they came over the horse 's withers in places . |
| 4 | But she stuck her feet out sideways so that they came against the wall of the hearth . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I guessed that they came from the execution during the second war . |