Example sentences of "they come [prep] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all her encouragement to them to come at any time to her house , Rose herself was wary of calling at Great Meadow . |
| 2 | This stereo assault on them came from two men in late middle age , bizarrely costumed in matching Victorian evening dress . |
| 3 | You have to remember that some of them came from remote parts of Scotland , and the stores catered for them . |
| 4 | Ace could see them coming in boiling waves through the sick-bay door . |
| 5 | Confirmation of this view is provided by the enormous and extremely rapid gains in productivity which were achieved in the motor vehicle and iron and steel industries when they came under strong pressure through government rationalisation schemes in the 1970s [ Bhaskar , 1979 ] . |
| 6 | They trailed 6–0 to two penalties by Gary Ellis as they came under early pressure from Horden , who won a lot of good ball but kept it among the forwards . |
| 7 | Timely interventions by senior Army officers had already established the ‘ official view ’ that the paratroops had fired only at clearly identifiable targets , and only when they came under heavy fire from gunmen , and nail and petrol bombers ( Curtis , 1984:41–2 ) . |
| 8 | As they reached the enemy coastline they came under heavy fire from the Turkish batteries . |
| 9 | They came for six months after seven day wonder , something had happened to us . |
| 10 | These Sephardic Jews did not take kindly to newcomers , especially to European or Ashkenazi Jews , unless they came with large sums of money . |
| 11 | They came to that conclusion on the grounds that it appeared to them to be a tenable meaning of the words and in accordance with what they thought to be the policy of the Act of 1914 as to jurisdiction . |
| 12 | Fortunately , both those clauses enjoy the protection of unanimous voting or could be changed when they came to practical application into law . |
| 13 | The thousands of miles of new hedgerows in the Midland countryside , when they came to full growth after a generation , added enormously to the bird population , especially with the extermination of the larger hawks and kites as pests , a process that is abundantly recorded in the church-wardens ' accounts or the field-reeves ' books of Midland villages . |
| 14 | Terry Lovell 's Pictures of Reality was a seminal text in this respect , since it presented a scrupulous critique of the semiotic and psychoanalytical preoccupations of film theory even before they came into full swing in feminism . |
| 15 | Simmo , who has become a favourite of pupils of Hurworth Primary School , near Darlington , described the slow build up to the conflict and the dangers they encountered as they came within four miles of the Kuwaiti coast . |
| 16 | They came from various parts of Europe , many with poignant backgrounds and experiences of hardship and misery . |
| 17 | They came from all parts of the kingdom and abroad . |
| 18 | Where companies provided data on more than one project they came from separate divisions within the firm , thus representing 65 separate R&D organizations with their own management . |
| 19 | They came in four pairs from the only four directions from which the farm could be assailed . |
| 20 | They come amid mounting pressure for the leadership formally to renounce the symbolic Clause 4 of the party 's constitution , which promises the ‘ common ownership of the means of production , distribution and exchange ’ . |
| 21 | They send their prospective consultants out for two days before they come into head office for the three day training . |
| 22 | Catalysts are rather esoteric thins which look — in the form industry uses them — either like macaroni or granules and they come in any colour of the rainbow . |
| 23 | And they come from all corners of the world . |
| 24 | I 've not had the experience perhaps of teaching so many dyslexic children to be able to comment on this , but certainly when I was making the videotape at Brickwall School and I asked the headmaster about that and he pointed to the fact that they certainly have a very wide intake , a complete social mix , and Professor Miles at Bangor University says that in his experience of dealing with dyslexic children they come from all walks of life , and it 's really quite inaccurate — I suppose there 's a sense in which , if we 've got to use these phrases , that middle class people have always been very concerned about the education of their children and so they may be the parents who will ask questions about their children 's lack of development , but I think it 's only , you know , more significant in middle class terms because of that . |
| 25 | they come from all types of er social backgrounds |
| 26 | They come from all parts of the country , although it 's true that a function organised by one particular branch will tend to attract mainly members from that area . |
| 27 | Only 15 months later , the participants in that match , which , it must be said , was not full of passion , are now presumably heavily engaged in destroying each other simply because they come from two sides of a divide that dates back to the tragedies , miseries and horrors of the second world war , back to the first world war and into the deep recesses of history before that time . |
| 28 | Because they are copied from it directly ( with only minor changes ) , they make sense as individual sentences ; but they do not connect together , because they come from different places in the original book . |
| 29 | They may look alike in shape and have some forms of behaviour in common , but they come from different parts of the world . |
| 30 | United by their love of comedy they come from diverse backgrounds in London and Surrey . |