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 . |