Example sentences of "[vb past] come [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Logically , it would make sense to assume that the aircraft failed to come up to the standards of performance and aggressive capability which the Soviets expected of it . |
| 2 | Middlesbrough 's shambolic defenders failed to come up with the answers to the riddles posed by Rosenthal 's direct running . |
| 3 | Kayersbridge Farm in Hurst , Berkshire , was making its second appearance at auction : auctioneer Gary Murphy had sold it in December for £262,000 to a bidder who failed to come up with the money . |
| 4 | Three of the men agreed to come back to the captain , and we put the others in my cave . |
| 5 | Even as I write , my heart is being ‘ roasted ’ because of the pounding music beat coming down from the flat above me . |
| 6 | I 'd come in in the middle of something . |
| 7 | Owen never repeated this claim in the pre-Darwinian era , but liberal theologians such as the Oxford mathematician and philosopher Baden Powell began to come around to the idea of ‘ designed evolution ’ during the 1850s . |
| 8 | At the congress Carlsson declared that the emergence of a new security system in Europe based on the 1975 Helsinki accords meant that Sweden 's neutrality no longer " bore the same heavy burden " , and the party began to come round to the view of both industry and the two major opposition parties ( M and Fp ) that Sweden should apply for membership of the European Communities ( EC , which it did in July 1991 — see p. 38353 ) . |
| 9 | People began to come back into the block . |
| 10 | He began to come back down the tunnel towards her . |
| 11 | When results began to come in from the field researchers , Highlander served as the collection , organisation and computation centre , and held workshops to allow participants to draw some very marked comparisons and contrasts from the raw data . |
| 12 | Red flares began coming up from the airfield , but the first bombers were committed : they had nowhere to go but down . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , the pressure on me has increased since Stuart decided to come back on the England scene , but this is not the first time he has squeezed the position and I accept that challenge from a top-class player . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , the pressure on me has increased since Stuart decided to come back on the England scene but this is not the first time he has squeezed the position and I accept that challenge from a top-class player . ’ |
| 15 | It would give them the push they needed to come out into the open . |
| 16 | Lisbon purchased a new ground and in 1924 built a first-class pavilion as visiting sides started coming over from the UK . |
| 17 | Then the soldiers started coming back after the war , and we got new members of staff — earnest young men who got all intense about everything . |
| 18 | He choked back the tears and shook as he told of how he 'd been driving along the road when steam started coming out of the bonnet . |
| 19 | When they first started coming out of the box they would just sit wherever they happened to land after stretching their wings . |
| 20 | To her surprise he offered to come over to the office . |
| 21 | She offered to come down for the weekend to help , and Carolyn wanted her badly enough to hesitate before putting her off . |
| 22 | A man I knew came out of the block next to mine . |
| 23 | Perhaps a bit more than that , the old nineteen thirty three class differentiation documents are reissued and they are reissued together with the supplements which we saw came out in the autumn of nineteen thirty three which and , and those supplements where then extended to allow the middle peasant to er up to twenty five , on some of the readings up to thirty percent , of his income from exploitation . |
| 24 | Like rejected lovers returning to a trysting place , they kept coming back to the areas surrounding the station . |
| 25 | Pancevski himself appeared to come down on the side of the Serbian position by stressing repeatedly that political pluralism " must be based on socialist orientation and the federal structure " and asserting : " The LCY finds unacceptable the thesis according to which the essence and form of political pluralism are reduced to a classic multiparty system alone . " |
| 26 | It is a great mistake : Barbara has to give up her small tress-shop and the cosy flat above where Percy liked to come round in the evenings ; while Percy , lacking that place of resort , now leaves her alone and goes out to play billiards . |
| 27 | She remembered coming back into the office after spending the morning talking to a woman who had started her own cosmetics business in her kitchen , and the pink message slip on her desk , saying that Matthew Prescott had called her . |
| 28 | But they , they did come up with the work on the results , and then they , they did get time to plan it . |
| 29 | One of the warmer meetings I 've done but th I think that we did come out in the end with all bar four people in the room , I believe that 's right Councillor is it ? |
| 30 | The rain certainly did come down during the night , it was so loud on the window the noise made it difficult to sleep . |