Example sentences of "they come [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And er Oh and if he If the time of the the er tinkers that they came round , if they came round about the time of the the pig killing they would look for the piece of bacon . |
| 32 | You were let out four times a day for slop-out , when they came round with the trolley and collected the plates . |
| 33 | When they came round in the valley , they were entertained with every delightful variant of wine , women and song promised in the holy scriptures to those who would go to Paradise . |
| 34 | It , just before we set off they came round in the car and they had a loaf for me . |
| 35 | The movement continued to grow and develop and to absorb new media as they came on to the market . |
| 36 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 37 | Seventy-four , they came in to the collection in seventy-four . |
| 38 | They stood on their ends in the inward sloping shelves for a fortnight or so when they came in during the spring or early summer . |
| 39 | I joined a party to climb down the great west cliffs to the boulder scree of Carn Mør , where we stayed until darkness fell and listened to the calls of Manx shearwater , Leach 's and storm petrels as they came in from the ocean to feed their young , hidden deep under the boulders . |
| 40 | As soon as they came in from the fishing , John — Augustus left Robinson and his potboy to take the tackle and the satisfactory number of dead char back to the inn while he went over to Hause Point . |
| 41 | At the top they came out into a kind of clearing . |
| 42 | They came out into the corridor together , Rostov holding back as he allowed the older and more senior man to go before him . |
| 43 | She smoked more than she had done before too lighting a cigarette with real hunger when they came out into the sunlight . |
| 44 | It was not until they came out into the clearing where the lame horse was dismally hobbling amongst the forest grasses that he became aware of what had happened . |
| 45 | ‘ He does n't totally trust them either , ’ the Director said to Rostov as they came out into the open . |
| 46 | They came out into the open . |
| 47 | I know some young women rightly feel that they came out as a result of their own strength — and of course many of them do come out without any youth work involvement . |
| 48 | As they came out onto the path a muffled roar sounded from the football pitch . |
| 49 | There was n't such a warm welcome though , when they came out onto the pitch a shortwhile ago . |
| 50 | They came out along the track we just followed , the very same one . |
| 51 | They came out to the car with me . |
| 52 | ‘ I see , ’ said Doyle softly as they came out at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 53 | After considerable discussion they came out with the word " numinous " . |
| 54 | They came out of a restaurant and had a race with Juan O'Brien and two of his cousins . |
| 55 | They came out of a summer house or folly , or some such thing , and found themselves in the company of a servant girl who was out walking . |
| 56 | He had made the remark , or something like it , ‘ to the back of Admiral Poindexter ’ as they came out of a meeting with Reagan , and Reagan could not possibly have heard it . |
| 57 | Starting at about 4,000ft , the Vimy rapidly lost height , Jack fighting to hold the joystick , they came out of the mist about 50ft above the water and at a dangerous angle . |
| 58 | The air-conditioning roared softly and they got their first drinks as they came out of the tunnel and on to the New Jersey marshes where gulls circled the refuse dumps among a forest of concrete stilts carrying the highways south . |
| 59 | He swam away and Adam swam away and very soon after that they came out of the lake and went back to Mary on the terrace . |
| 60 | They came out of the audit , did n't it . |