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

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1 Is it not the case that although the wage increases of British workers have come down the benefits of that have been dissipated , and that due to the recession induced by the Government productivity has gone down although it has gone up in Germany and as a result unit labour costs in the year to the second quarter of 1991 went up by 3 per cent .
2 The news of the day was that British tanks had got across the Irrawaddy near Meiktila , having come down the Chindwin valley .
3 May I , as someone who has recently come off the dole , comment on Donald Gould 's article ( Forum , 20 January , p 180 ) .
4 He said ‘ The RS/6000 is not big now in Hungary , and it has only recently come off the Comecon list .
5 Although Vinny Samways has now come off the transfer list , Spurs look light in the key area .
6 I 've now come off the pill without telling my boyfriend .
7 Unfortunately for our timing one of the hosts suddenly said , ‘ I 'm sure you do n't want any coffee , Prime Minister , you 've just come off the plane .
8 The tot , Britain 's most premature surviving child , had just come off the danger list after a three-month fight for life .
9 The front of the jeep was as clean as if it had just come off the boat from Japan .
10 ‘ I 've just come off the Isle of Man boat . ’
11 At last the restoration was completed and R5868 looked as if it had just come off the production line , a fine tribute to F/L Peaple and his team .
12 He has not yet come off the fence and told us whether he supports the barrage project .
13 She had emigrated with half her family to England when a baby , but they had all come back the night an auntie 's house in Derry had been seen on TV news , with the sofa flying from an upstairs window and loyalist thugs pouring petrol on the geraniums .
14 Erm , and it 's quite an early start so it 's , it just makes it such a late night to for eating by the time you 've come out the cinema it 's erm
15 In 30 years no band has ever come out the system alive .
16 The Sunday newspaper articles had come out the week before last , and were still bringing in letters .
17 give us time to get dressed , she says oh hurry up now and we 've just come out the bath
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