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

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31 They passed through a tiny hole in its black flank and came out onto the lawn .
32 We eventually left the outback by way of some tiny townships , widely spaced , and came down onto the Queensland coast at the busy city of Townsville with a modern cylindrical building surmounted by a silvery roof feature .
33 The green men in their cloaks of leaves and branches then discovered them , and came down to the beach and circled Dulé and his companions where they lay prone , and shook their fronds and squatted on their haunches and kicked their legs and tossed their heads and slapped palm to thigh , in order to rally them and send them off again ; pouring spirits and water into their faces to invigorate them , beating out a rhythm with their feet .
34 About a week later , I finished work early one day and came back to the house .
35 Stephen had a meeting with the shop steward the following morning at 8.30 , and came back to the house afterwards shouting to Victor the butler for strong black coffee .
36 Then he lost his nerve and rushed out of the flat and came back to the house to find me . ’
37 Suddenly , to her relief , the telephone rang , Joanna picked it up , wrote down the message , and came back to the table , looking elated .
38 She headed away into tall grass , hid the baby and came back to the boat for the return trip to Tiger Haven .
39 ‘ One spring I left my noviciate and came back to the farm .
40 Sykes went to Paris a couple of days before you did , and came back on the Monday .
41 Down she went and came back with the cups of tea and slices of cake on a tray .
42 Garry answered it and came back into the kitchen with two policemen .
43 The old woman said something and Simon turned and came back into the room and stood by the deerskin pallet on which Hugh was lying .
44 The other people heard the noise of the shot and came back into the room .
45 Marcus put the thing down without doing any speaking and came back into the room .
46 As David caught sight of her he left the other two and came back into the foyer .
47 ‘ Of course , ’ he said calmly and came back across the room .
48 Her mother of course was aware that fifteen does not relish the solitude that fifty does , and came back from the village one day when Peony had been particularly silent and lumpish , with the news that Mrs Price who kept an antique shop had her grandchildren staying with her , and she was invited to go round and play tennis with them and have tea .
49 Erm , I have I think cousin , erm , who was in the Air Force during the war , and came back from the Air Force with a child .
50 Goshawk Squadron flew all that day , and came back from the patrols badly mauled .
51 ‘ You went out and came back by the yard door ? ’
52 He could see the grey ruffled silk of the sea on the left as they banked and came in towards the airport .
53 He added : ‘ I qualified in 1948 and came in with the health service .
54 Anna shut the door again , she did not know that Mena had followed her , and walked round the house and came in by the terrace , a smile on her face .
55 He smiled and came in from the terrace .
56 Meanwhile , plenty of new flats are being built and coming on to the market : developers have rushed to get their projects completed in the hope of selling before demand dried up .
57 And coming round to the south .
58 She was wasting her breath , she saw , for Ven was already out of the car and coming round to the passenger door .
59 And coming up on the rails in the first division are Oxford United .
60 confirmed that what was envisaged was , as identified but not without some reservations , a restructuring of the profession with future practitioners gaining their experience among and coming up from the ranks of the newly created cadre of internal auditors .
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