Example sentences of "[noun prp] come [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward came in at the french window and stared blankly at his younger sister . |
| 2 | She was hanging up the jacket of her plum-coloured suit when Rebecca came in through the outer door . |
| 3 | A few weeks later Patrick Ashby came back from the dead and went home to inherit the family house and fortune . |
| 4 | The ‘ Lang comes back from the grave ’ phenomenon makes the whole election seem a disaster for the anti-unionist forces , but it was much less of one than 1979 . |
| 5 | At very much the same hour Edmund Mortimer came out of the deep sleep that follows fever , and opened his eyes reluctantly , remembering instantly and ruefully a day and a night of indignity and discomfort before he had lost all sense of place , time and direction , and finally of his own identity . |
| 6 | Kiku came out of the inner chamber . |
| 7 | TRAVEL agent Jacqui Ferguson came up with the right solution to land herself a dream trip round the world . |
| 8 | Fearing a tragedy of epic proportions — her mind leapt at once to Penini and then to Miss Arabel — she knocked on the open door and Mr Browning came through from the other room , so haggard and drawn in contrast to his morning self that once more she was convinced something dreadful had happened . |
| 9 | When Alice Hyde came out of the Broadward Lodge Elderly Peoples home in Leominster today , there was a surprise waiting . |
| 10 | Shane Warne , whose solitary wicket of the series had cost him 228 runs , was rested , while Tom Moody came in for the out-of-form Mark Waugh . |
| 11 | For the first time Gould came up against the devastating effects of unlimited commercial exploitation . |
| 12 | Like Denny , Eamon McAuley came in from the cold last night for a good win ( pts 6 ) over Manchester visitor Russell Davidson . |
| 13 | Lyn switched off the set as Stephen came in at the back door . |
| 14 | Hulagu came out of the clustered spectators . |
| 15 | The surface had just begun to shimmer in the light when Mrs Rosalia Alderley came out through the French windows of the ballroom and stopped , staring in thunderstruck amazement . |
| 16 | As Theda came out into the dark hall , she heard someone bustling down the stairs , and recognised Mrs Diggory 's voice . |
| 17 | The Land Rover came down to the main road between Lochgilphead and Lochgair . |
| 18 | Only later did Oliver Michaels come back with the sobering news that the hotel was strangely full of policemen , that there was no breakfast to be had save for coffee and muffins , without a trek to the Albion Hotel , and moreover there was thought to be something odd about Sir Thomas 's death which no one would specify . |
| 19 | Darren Jackson comes in for the suspended Mike Ford … |
| 20 | Pete Waterman is making animated conversation at the bar After trying unsuccessfully to blackmail him with photographs of his dancing , we part company , wondering aloud if he would tart the programme up were Granada to come up with the big bucks . |
| 21 | Mahmoud came out of the Mixed Tribunals and crossed the street towards him . |
| 22 | No one asked that question , they simply focused upon er the , the communist insurrection in the south and the American , American commitment to the global containment of communism meant that they had to go and do something about it and domestic political pressures were there too er President Kennedy came out of the Cuban missiles crisis a hero because his people mistakenly believed that he 'd won a foreign policy success and that he 'd acted in a restrained and statesmanlike manor . |
| 23 | Maureen came up with the ingenious idea of making a sling . |
| 24 | Norman came in under the wild-card foreign invitee blanket with nary a victory to his name in the past year . |
| 25 | Next Derek came up with the bright idea of making me walk to see how far I could get . |
| 26 | He looked up when Donna Frizzell came in through the back door , and was startled to see that her hat was awry and her makeup smudged beyond repair . |
| 27 | The day after , Jamie came in with the wooden dish of porridge , held it out to Cameron , then twitched it away when he reached for it and turned it upside down . |
| 28 | France , Germany and Italy came out on the sceptical side , with the UK , the Netherlands and North America on the other . |
| 29 | Gazzer came out of the main doors of St Mark 's . |
| 30 | Neil Jenkins switches from outside-half to centre to allow Adrian Davies to reclaim the number ten jersey and Ian Jones comes in on the right wing for only his second tour outing . |