Example sentences of "[noun sg] come [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wycliffe 's head and neck came just above the plaited cane at the back of the chair . |
| 2 | But the vast increase in the Nazi vote came primarily from the impoverished middle classes who had seen their savings and living standards smashed in the wake of the Versailles Treaty and the Depression . |
| 3 | It was on this trip that a remarkable partnership came together for the first time . |
| 4 | That light came originally from the same source as Fenna 's fire , from the heart of the golden star , from the sun itself — but it was light crashing around space at speeds which defy relativity , rolling like waves , bouncing like particles , rebounding off the dead desert of the cold moon and hurled thence , down through nearly a quarter of a million miles , forced through the steadily slowly moving liquid molecules of solid glass which made the windows . |
| 5 | The Central Council of the PLO , convened in Tunis on Oct. 15-17 , formally approved continuing Palestinian participation at the Middle East peace talks , but analysts believed that the margin of victory for the mainstream " pro-negotiation " factions was narrow , opposition coming principally from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ) . |
| 6 | ‘ Did another stranger come here about the same time ? ’ |
| 7 | The winner came midway through the second half . |
| 8 | From the start , ITV programme scheduling was almost entirely determined , apart from the IBA 's requirements , by the need to get advertising revenue ( in its early years , one-quarter of ITV 's money came simply from the great washing-powder war ) . |
| 9 | Schiller 's resignation came soon after the decisive Bundestag vote on the ‘ Eastern Treaties ’ and made mid-1972 a difficult time for Brandt . |
| 10 | After considerable deliberations , a great deal of attention , many discussions with the various parties concerned — no doubt the kind of conference which the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull , West ( Mr. Randall ) so naively believes will produce a solution — the committee came forward with the only viable solution , total deregulation of Sunday trading . |
| 11 | But in relative terms there can be no doubt that British broadcasting comes close to the Public Service Ideal while the British press comes nowhere near it . |
| 12 | Relaxation came only with the two Geneva conferences of 1954 and 1955 . |
| 13 | In Nunn 's way of orchestrating the scene , however , the forced merriment comes across like the willed time-killing in Three Sisters , less the whiling away of a few specific minutes than the attempt to shake off a pervasive ennui . |
| 14 | For these — unlike Superfund sites — the cash comes entirely from the federal government . |
| 15 | In the second half Leeds looked slightly better but almost went 2–1 down when poor marking let one the Crewe forwards in with a chance , the ball came across from the right wing and the bloke had a shot at goal from about 12 yards out that only just missed . |
| 16 | The name came both from the general appearance and from a certain make of shoe with a pattern free surface . |
| 17 | Blackberry was about to reply when another rabbit came noisily through the thick dog 's mercury in the wood , blundered down into the brambles and pushed his way up from the ditch . |
| 18 | The race was really on now , and as the quartet came away from the third last and turned into the straight Desert Orchid suddenly had a fight on his hands — not from Ten of Spades , who had exhausted himself in drawing the grey 's sting and now fell heavily at the second last , but from Toby Tobias and Norton 's Coin . |
| 19 | More cash for teacher training and reassurances about the policy came yesterday from the Scottish education minister , Lord James Douglas-Hamilton , in an attempt to quell growing concern about the costs and effects of a rapid change . |
| 20 | Partridge had got all angry and upset soon too because as he was struggling with Steven a magazine fell out of his trousers on to the towpath of the canal and the other men had picked it up and it had been a spanking magazine so all the other men who were n't laughing and shouting already started teasing partridge ; Partridge started trying to wrestle Steven to the ground but Steven had got free and clouted the other man with the shovel , which was still bloody from hacking the cat to bits , and after that , with the magazine coming apart as the other men grabbed at it and Partridge rolling about dazed on the towpath in the cat 's blood and almost falling into the canal , Dan Ashton had said soberly that enough was enough and they 'd better go and see Mr Smith the supervisor because they just could n't go on like this . |
| 21 | Patients from all over the area come here to the Regional Haemophilia Centre at the Churchill Hospital at Headington . |
| 22 | Its initial success came chiefly in the traditional Dissenting districts , but by the beginning of Victoria 's reign it attracted people of all social backgrounds in almost every type of community except the estate village . |
| 23 | The composer came here from the nearby orphanage where he was raised , and today visitors find it a similarly welcoming refuge . |
| 24 | The word comes straight from the Greek meaning ‘ nature ’ ; and it did not acquire its narrower modern sense until about Helmholtz 's time . |
| 25 | Silence came only in the deep watches of the night . |
| 26 | The end came soon after the 62-year old patient 's kidneys began to shut down and the amount of blood pumped by his artificial heart dropped . |
| 27 | But what does amaze me , is the reason why this motion came forward in the first place . |
| 28 | As my hand came away from the trim wheel I touched the auto pilot control and , on looking down . |
| 29 | But perestroika came late to the Soviet Academy of Sciences , and the reforms introduced over the past two years have yet to take effect . |
| 30 | I suppose that , Holland being so flat , all Dutch houses needed a piano nobile from which to get a better view , and that the fashion came here with the new King William . |