Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] come [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rincewind pounded down an alley , paying no heed to the screams of rage coming from the picture box , and cleared a high wall with his frayed robe flapping around him like the feathers of a dishevelled jackdaw . |
| 2 | The abandoned vine-terraces along the inland valleys , dried grey by the sun , look like the side of an amphitheatre ; much of the local retsina you think you are drinking in the village tavernas in fact comes from the mainland . |
| 3 | Using eight display screens the team on duty can monitor and control the pressures and flows of gas coming into the region through the national and regional offtakes , maintaining safe operating limits and ensuring demand is met . |
| 4 | In Oxford , particular care has been taken to try to identify all cases of self-injury coming to the general hospital , irrespective of whether they have been referred to the hospital psychiatric service . |
| 5 | The first signs of rust came on the day the first battalion of the tartan army arrived in Cordoba . |
| 6 | One said : ‘ All we saw was loads of smoke coming from the station and then the emergency vehicles arrived . ’ |
| 7 | The trouble was that the salt had permeated the walls and penetrated through to the other side , where beads of moisture coming through the plaster accounted for the detachment of the wallpaper , which by this time was hanging loose in a depressing and derelict manner . |
| 8 | One of the most carefully observed pieces of vaudeville comes in the song whose female part begins , |
| 9 | ‘ Go to hell ! ’ she burst out hoarsely and started to fight in deadly earnest , slapping and scratching at him , little cries of panic coming from the back of her throat as her mind flashed back into full operation and she realised with sick fear just how close she had come to the edge . |
| 10 | The evidence for the feelings of persecution came from the discussions of the fixing of wage rates by personnel managers . |
| 11 | As they spoke , sounds of music came through the evening air from the village . |
| 12 | Rachel had been quiet but now Carrie could hear her stirring , the growing sounds of protest coming through the open door . |
| 13 | He heard the sounds of merriment coming from the Manse , and he knew that Madra would be in there , pouring wine for Bragad and suffering the leers of drunk men . |
| 14 | Jane had heard sounds of violence coming from the Shill 's room on several occasions , and she knew that in early October , shortly before their arrival , Maria had complained to the police after sustaining a broken collar bone when Joseph pushed her through a window . |
| 15 | Snow and ice from their mutuations and from the part they play in nature as precipitation , agents of erosion and modifiers of climate come within the range severally of physics , meteorology , geology , physical geography , oceanography and climatology . |
| 16 | Although there can be no clear-cut division between the use of language in literature and in everyday life ( and it would not be fruitful to attempt to make such a division ) , we can recognise that some of the most arresting , innovative and enriching uses of language come from the poets , novelists and dramatists who practise the craft of writing . |
| 17 | At one level , then , leading abolitionists in parliament came to the conclusion that the language of practicality , of plausible calculations about population increase in the future in the West Indies if importations from Africa were stopped , were more likely to be effective on their colleagues . |
| 18 | However , Bonhams auctioneer Alastair Laird believes the actual numbers of artwork coming on the market is not as great as 10 years ago . |
| 19 | The duration of disease was taken from the date of diagnosis except where obvious symptoms of colitis came before the diagnosis by a matter of years . |
| 20 | Crippled chairs with missing feet and tufts of stuffing coming through the cracks ; dead , useless grandfather clocks with faces but no hands ; embroidered hangings eaten with mould patches that made hunt scenes resemble maps of unknown worlds . |
| 21 | [ … ] It is perhaps no coincidence that only when one is prepared to recognize that the firm is based on authority do issues of power come to the fore in the theory of the firm . |
| 22 | The hijacker in the black shirt came out of the Captain 's cabin behind the man in white , but two other men in white came through the door and shot him too . |
| 23 | Initial attempts at change came in the wake of the 1974 NHS reorganization , when efforts were made to sectorize Exminster , Digby and Wonford House Hospitals , which together made up one administrative unit as the ‘ Exe Vale Group ’ . |
| 24 | Billowing gusts of heat came from the furnaces and they could see the immense iron hods of wood , waiting to be fed to the furnaces . |
| 25 | Correll found that during the summer about half the river 's estuarine loadings of nitrogen come from the sky . |
| 26 | The greatest occasions for offence came with the biennial meetings of the Baptist and Congregational Unions and the annual gatherings of the National Free Church Council . |
| 27 | We scrambled out of our tents shouting excitedly , straight into the pools of torchlight coming from the mountain rescue team . |
| 28 | These variations do not appear to be fully explained by differences in the types of case coming before the courts concerned ( Jones , 1995 : 116 ) . |