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

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1 his feet came down to the knees on it
2 The mine captains came up from the ranks , having been tributers and tutworkers themselves .
3 These primates came down from the trees and gradually learned to walk upright .
4 As the smoke cleared and the dust settled , two fighter planes came in over the fields and circled the remains of the barn .
5 A single-glazed window has a ‘ cold zone ’ around it where you 'll get convection draughts ( as well as the draughts coming in through the gaps ) .
6 Corbett bowed respectfully and , pushing by the labourers and other villeins coming in from the fields to break their fasts , went out of the Galilee Gate , across the track and into the woods .
7 A few lights came on in the villages .
8 Problems came up with the musicians .
9 Partially to silence Jane 's chatter , Patrick began quietly pointing out some of the landmarks , the memories coming back with the names .
10 One says the main problems are rival groups of casuals coming out of the discos and restaurants at about 4.30 , and the crowds that gather round the kebab shops .
11 THE catalogue of horror stories coming out of the banks ' treatment of their customers seems to have no effect on the high-handed , arrogant way they behave .
12 Crown post because the braces come out like the points of a of a sort of pantomime crown .
13 As one would expect , the majority of the sentenced prisoners coming in through the gates had received short terms , but 121 ( 13 per cent ) had been admitted to serve sentences over five years and 84 of these had received life imprisonment for murder .
14 The expressway flies over quiet suburban streets with old-fashioned lamps coming on among the elms .
15 When there was a sense of unrest and what not , and then first one ship then the other , starts shuddering but before that happened we saw Germans coming off in the rafts and that .
16 Suragai came up through the trees .
17 Captain Paul Donohue says they 've got a lot of young players coming up through the ranks of the Oxford City Ice Hockey Club .
18 WC apps : 8 Runners-up : 1958 After flirting with failure , the Swedes came through to the finals with a point to spare after a 2-0 victory in Poland in their last qualifying game .
19 The girls were less politically conscious than the boys , although the staff would notice a more defensive attitude when the pupils came back from the townships after the holidays .
20 Bats developed " send/receive " switching technology long long ago , probably millions of years before our ancestors came down from the trees .
21 Traffic levels in the city are growing rapidly , with 500 additional vehicles coming on to the streets every day .
22 Amid mounting chaos , Iliescu issued a radio appeal to factory workers and others to come on to the streets to defend the revolution .
23 The politicians coming along in the states decolonised in 1960 ‘ have benefited from the spadework done for them .
24 As transport costs rose and London 's reputation for violence after dark grew , business was increasingly dependent on coachloads of theatregoers coming in from the provinces .
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