Example sentences of "[subord] he come [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he comes from the same mean streets that spawned Tyson , Bowe says : ‘ My approach is totally different to his . |
| 2 | Ian pressed on down the passage , down two steps , until he came to the small wooden door in the fabric . |
| 3 | He ran on until he came to the tall reeds . |
| 4 | Martin walked carefully along a narrow path that would tortuously between ancient graves and heavy , ornate tombstones until he came to the first of the family plots . |
| 5 | Charlie ignored the order and crawled quickly forward until he came to the prostrate body of his friend . |
| 6 | But instead of releasing it he began to kiss each finger in turn until he came to the pale circle on the third finger of her left hand . |
| 7 | He walked silently along the thickly carpeted floor until he came to the last cubicle . |
| 8 | He was educated privately at home , and never knew there were other deaf people in the world until he came across the manual alphabet in one of the publications he was reading , and out of curiosity mastered it . |
| 9 | I know , if he comes through the back door and |
| 10 | Cos he came round the next week and talked to me , he had a quick chat with me for about three hours ! |
| 11 | ‘ You draw good pictures , ’ said the boy , turning over the pages of the note-book till he came to the whole page drawing of a pheasant , the cock pheasant that Philip had coloured in at home . |
| 12 | As he gave out his text , his voice rose like a steam of rich distilled perfumes , ’ and when he came to the two last words , which he pronounced loud , deep , and distinct , it seemed to me , who was then young , as if the sounds had echoed from the bottom of the human heart , and as if that prayer might have floated in solemn silence through the universe . |
| 13 | He sorted through Blanche 's things deliberately , one by one , and only stopped when he came to the building-society books she had purloined and Marek 's exercise book . |
| 14 | I 've actually seen erm er been in a workshop as a participant where a chap who was excellent at this had what he did was while while the participants were doing some sort of an exercise he was actually making these tiny notes up in the top corner for himself so that when he when he came to the next sort of section that he wanted he 'd he 'd got he 'd got the odd notes just up there in the corner . |
| 15 | He was going like a winner when he came to the third from home , fell and broke a leg . |
| 16 | When he came into the Provincial 's small executive team under managing director in June 1990 life was tough for the industry as a whole after the storms and other claims-raising disasters . |
| 17 | When he comes to the first dramatic event he appears to be reaching towards a dramatic present here comes but is constrained by the prevailing past tense of the narration . |
| 18 | And when he comes to the richer and more respectable inmates of the borough who can veil their defects behind money , he remains sardonic , and sees them as poor people who have not been found out . |
| 19 | IAN WOOSNAM , so out of form coming into the Masters , nevertheless began to put up an heroic defence at Augusta National yesterday and was within a stroke of the lead as he came into the finishing holes in his second round . |
| 20 | Dr Nolan looked deadbeat as he came into the little bedroom at Milltown . |
| 21 | As he came off the 13th green he was six under fours with five holes to play and Patrick 's prospects of collecting had improved . |
| 22 | He slowed as he came to the first of the two rows , leaning across the dashboard in order to be able to see up the slope . |
| 23 | As he came through the front door he had picked up his post . |
| 24 | Philip ran towards it and as he came round the slight bend in the wide path he saw the boy tugging at it . |