Example sentences of "[pers pn] come [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Erm when I came on to the flats I came with an open mind and I was gon na you know take things as I as I met them .
2 I came up on the pools !
3 I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed .
4 Then I came back to the courts at Bisham again before going back to school again at 3pm for history and then I come back and play again afterwards .
5 I came out of the forces , he was only waiting for the time that I came out , for him to retire .
6 He hung on until I came out and I was given embarkation leave or demob leave rather and I did n't even have a chance to have that , they wanted me down there so quickly , I think I came out of the forces one week and I was working down there the following week because was way past his retiring age .
7 I coming up through the floorboards .
8 But the dream , ‘ When I come up on the Pools ’ became the Fifties equivalent of breaking the bank at Monte Carlo for the Edwardians .
9 which I shall not attempt to conceal from you , but before I come down to the details let me say that Darwinism occupies such a central position in evolutionary biology — in biology as a whole , not just in evolutionary biology but in the whole of biology — that any important , new idea in biology has to be , to some extent , judged by its compatibility with , or its contradictions of , the Darwinian position .
10 When you got water , when you came up to the docks to get water , where would you obtain that from ?
11 You know the steep hill at , at erm between Martlesham and Woodbridge , you know as you left Martlesham you went down that steep hill down to the erm the pub at the bottom of the hill where you came out on the looks to me as if the new road misses that altogether
12 At Christmas they always played ‘ You came down from the stars ’ and at Easter they usually played a Pastorale , and what with the roar of the traffic and the crowds of chattering shoppers or tourists it was practically impossible to distinguish the tune except in short bursts .
13 Alexandra would find her by the fire in the drawing-room in the afternoons , the Pekinese guarding her against invisible dangers , then she came down in the mornings and needed letters written , wools held .
14 She came out of the marshes , and she was grey all over grey hair , grey face , grey rags and tatters and all mired and spattered , besides , from the marsh mud .
15 You know when you come down to the referrals part of it , what is
16 jus just ignore pretend he 's not here , carry on when you come down to the referrals bit
17 Anne ‘ s quick wit made her popular and one of the women said admiringly , ‘ You can tell you come from a big family , girl , the way you come out with the wisecracks . ’
18 And she comes back to the Counts of Lusignan to foretell deaths — she is a kind of Dame Blanche , or Fata Bianca .
19 When we came out of the trees , I saw the house from the other side .
20 After a long walk we came out between the dunes and were staring at the sea .
21 Can we come back to the criteria and I probably ought to refer you lar really to the I I know this is set out a little br a s rather shorthanded fashion .
22 As they came up to the gates , Aziz sidled up to the little boy with his mop , an ingratiating smile on his face .
23 He thought , privately , that they might be very glad of the horses , because they might find that they came out of the Workshops much faster than they went in , but he did not say this .
24 It was noon before they had completed the morning 's tasks , and as they came out from the buildings to go across to the house , the snow had ceased to fall .
25 Hats were flung into the air , the cheering reached higher and higher levels , and Dawn Run and Jonjo O'Neill were engulfed as they came back past the stands and up the walkway to the unsaddling enclosure in the parade ring .
26 Then they came back to the families in batches , sometimes several hundred at a time .
27 They came back with the monsters hide and a report on the blasted stone cover at the opening , and with theses verifications the authorities grew friendlier
28 I thought , when I heard him coming down through the bushes , it could be no one but Tutilo .
29 But the wards are staffed twenty four hours a day , nursing staff are always about , we have dedicated security staff who can be called at a minute 's notice , and staff are obviously aware on kid 's wards how sensitive security is , and will be challenging people when they come on to the wards .
30 However , check that there are no sounds which are likely to be noticed each time they come round on the repeats .
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