Example sentences of "and come [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | What you have going for you is the ability to withstand whatever is dished up and to come out on the winning side . |
2 | In this situation , the onus is on the band to sell all the tickets and to come out with the extra money . |
3 | Theodora circled the house in the direction of the arrow and came round to the back door . |
4 | My father — who could n't have been described as a saint by anyone — worked on the docks by day , lived in the pub at night and came home in the early morning because it was the only place he could fall asleep without being disturbed . |
5 | Rachaela did as she was told , and came out to the examining table , very white with something on it like a large paper towel . |
6 | As they rounded the hump and came out on the broad , gentler seaward slope they saw a uniformed policeman standing on the cliff edge , and when they joined him he pointed to the rocky shore below . |
7 | But they reached the house , or rather the road below , and when Adamus had paid the driver-no account was mentioned — they walked up the crumbling slope in the shadowed midday light , and came out among the wet green oaks , and the house appeared . |
8 | It was unfair to the defendant and came about by the calculated action of the police to lull Newall into a false sense of security , he added . |
9 | He took in Marcus 's absence , went upstairs and came down with the pale boy behind him . |
10 | ‘ An alternative theory is that the killer knocked him out first , then went into the washroom to strip and came back for the final throat-cutting before Berowne had a chance to come round . |
11 | It 's possible that he tiptoed down the passage and came in by the main door . |
12 | I started at one corner and I went right across and came off at the other corner , and I did n't go back . |
13 | And in addition to that , of course , they have copper , and coming up on the future horizon cobalt , and erm the possibilities of developing tourism on quite a big scale , as they were beginning to do in the nineteen sixties before Amin Amin took over . |
14 | This error is like climbing below a col , and coming up on the wrong side of it . |
15 | risking their lives and coming back with the whole lot that he collected and brought back again . |
16 | He stumbled but did n't fall , turning his motion to attack with balletic ease , and coming back at the other man with tremendous force . |
17 | Anyway , ’ Finch said in his ordinary voice and coming out of the interesting counterpoint , ‘ if he 's not rotten , he 's certainly out of the usual run of analysts . |
18 | And he turned back to the Toyota , reaching in to the rear seat and coming out with the blasting plunger . |
19 | A hundred parachute troops from the 2nd Parachute Battalion made this entrance on 27 February 1942 , fighting their way into the station and coming out with the vital gear dismantled by Flight-Sergeant Cox , a radar expert . |
20 | Then there were those brown corduroys and blue jeans : the very seams of his old , faded pants enraptured me , seeming to underscore the seductive outlines of his lower frame , running from the back of his thick leather belt down along that mysterious , rich intercrural channel , and coming out at the other end of the tunnel at the tense crossroads orienting the scrotum 's heavy bag with its blissful raphe , or subtly defining and underlining the inside and outside of the long , smooth thighs and the stocky , bulgy , athletic calves . |
21 | ‘ My eldest daughter Catherine 's behaviour became unacceptable to the family : she was always disappearing with these friends and coming home in the early hours . ’ |
22 | After a long time I heard him get up and come over to the long wall , near to where I was sitting listlessly in the arm-chair . |
23 | You can also circle your hips , swooping down to your heels as you go round and come up to the other side ! |
24 | He sang the same song for three-quarters of an hour , he 'd go sit on the drum riser , and come back to the mic and sing a verse , and then sit and stare into space and then come back again and again . |
25 | They wo n't do away with them , no but cos they , they 're trying to do away with the National Dock Labour Board and come back to the old system . |
26 | I had just checked into the hotel and come down to the sunken terrace when I saw armed men running in a crouched position by the swimming pool . |
27 | ‘ The confiscation of proceeds from drugs crimes makes it difficult for traffickers to salt away their funds , do time and come out to the high life . ’ |
28 | Bond 's technical wizard Q ( Desmond Llewellyn ) and new assistant Eve Barker , from BBC 's Born Kicking , realise the security implications and come out from the shadowy world of espionage to help publicise them . |