Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] come [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1991 ended with youth affiliations at an all-time high of 360 , and school donations of more than £17,000 coming in to the section . |
| 2 | It was as if Moses came down from the mountain with the Ten Commandments to find Christ and the disciples standing in the crowd . |
| 3 | In most cases the processing power required is that of an AT type machine with a Hercules or EGA graphics card so until Amstrad come out with the next generation machine this aspect of desktop publishing will have to wait . |
| 4 | ‘ If people come down to the police station with their bikes we will postcode them . |
| 5 | If people coming down from the North wearing British Coal Rugby League jumpers think they 're travelling away from home and the event is rather special , imagine the feelings of an Australian as he goes up that long concourse to the Vatican of the inflated rubber bladder . |
| 6 | I did that until Elvis came out of the Army , and then we went back to work with him , went in and did the sessions , did an album in Nashville , got on a train , went to Miami and did the Frank Sinatra show . |
| 7 | But Anna did not talk to him , because Sarah came in at the same time . |
| 8 | You 'll have to save it till Paul comes back for the car . |
| 9 | Happened a lot with Cantona too — the famous Chelsea goal came shortly after Cantona came on in the 8 ? th minute . |
| 10 | The bottle was in his hand when Nicandra came back from the kitchen . |
| 11 | When Ben came back to the table he placed the fork with great ceremony to the side of Millie 's plate , saying , ‘ There you are , madam . |
| 12 | She was hanging up the jacket of her plum-coloured suit when Rebecca came in through the outer door . |
| 13 | But the variable of interest may of course genuinely swing around abruptly ; the monthly count of unemployed people rises very sharply when school-leavers come on to the register , for example . |
| 14 | So we were back before the firebox , exhausted and happy , and Laura had just shut down the kiln , when Edward came round into the yard again . |
| 15 | But as Ruth came out of the basement , all she was struck by , quite irrelevantly , was his likeness to Jake ; for an instant she almost thought it was Jake , standing there . |
| 16 | The girl looked up as Ebert came back into the hold , her eyes wide , filled with fear . |
| 17 | Just the kind of remarks one would hear as parents come out of the display of their children at annual ballet school spectacular . |
| 18 | When Nara came back with the milk , the calf had collapsed , exhausted . |
| 19 | Laura was still roughly chastising herself , and attempting to ignore the hard knot of unsatisfied desire still gripping her body , when Ross came back into the room . |
| 20 | Lyn switched off the set as Stephen came in at the back door . |
| 21 | Her teeth stopped chattering , and when Matthew came back with the tea and the whisky , he remarked that the colour had come back into her face . |
| 22 | This proved to be one of the sources of its downfall : there came a point when failure to come up with the goods , rationalised by ‘ the need for more research ’ , began to sound a little hollow and begged the asking of more fundamental questions . |
| 23 | Sophie heaved a long sigh , then looked up as Helen came back to the table , her face drawn and anxious . |
| 24 | When Ludovico came back to the apartment with food for lunch and found her stripped to the waist , washing herself in the cracked kitchen sink , he immediately started making love to her , pushing her back until the taps dug into her . |
| 25 | As Theda came out into the dark hall , she heard someone bustling down the stairs , and recognised Mrs Diggory 's voice . |
| 26 | When Fred came back to the table , the two old friends suddenly fused and started to laugh , while Daisy had to wait upon them as their natural audience . |
| 27 | He turned as McKenzie came on to the bridge : ‘ And how are our oil-stained survivors , Chief ? ’ |
| 28 | The daylight faded when Raghunath came back to the teacher tired and dripping . |
| 29 | ‘ He does n't usually throw tantrums , ’ Ashley said ruefully , as Vitor came round from the boot , ‘ but he has had a very long day . ’ |
| 30 | Tim climbed down the tree just as Pegs came back into the garden . |