Example sentences of "he came [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | He came down the tiny steps at the side of the stage and sat beside Zach . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | He ran on until he came to the tall reeds . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | And he came with the highest recommendations , from Margaret Thatcher and Helmut Kohl . ’ |
6 | First he came across the reserve trenches a few hundred yards in front of the hospital tents , known as the ‘ hotel area ’ as they were a quarter of a mile behind the front line , where each soldier spent four days without a break before being allowed four days of rest in the reserve trenches . |
7 | Leonard Cheshire and I were pilot officers together in No 4 Group at the beginning of the war ; he came from the dreaming spires of Oxford and I had just been commissioned as a pilot officer after serving a stint of five years as a sergeant pilot . |