Example sentences of "they came [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turbin lights and they were for use of coastal command of the RAF first searchlighting for submarines , looking for submarines , the er the Harvards were very much trained as some of them came in from the Navy they were used for training landing of pilots on aircraft carriers , and they had hooks underneath you know the er they were a very good trainer they were still used today , but when we used to go and see films at the pictures they used to use them a lot as Japanese aircraft because they looked alike , and they used to use them as zeros in the American films these Harvard trainers , er and but like as I said they had a experimental department at Helliwells and they used to try out various things to see if they could improve on the structure or the instrumentation things like that |
| 2 | A good many boys and girls had joined the crowd now and shouts of laughter broke out as a few of them came out from the gate in the kitchen-garden wall , their hands full of ripe peaches , their chins dripping with juice . |
| 3 | Donal Lunny came down , and Gerry O'Beirne and Mary Custy and Eoin O'Neill , my sister Mary , and Adam Calyton , Mike Scott and Steve Wickham had been over in Spiddal at the time , working with John , so they came over for the crack . |
| 4 | ‘ They came over in the summer and at half-term and I 'll be in England for Christmas . |
| 5 | They came up to the gate of the city and the guards saw Rabscuttle with King Darzin 's son . |
| 6 | They came up to the Renault . |
| 7 | As they came up to the warren bank he suddenly caught sight of Fiver . |
| 8 | As they came up to the gates , Aziz sidled up to the little boy with his mop , an ingratiating smile on his face . |
| 9 | They came up with the council tax . |
| 10 | They came up with the idea , what did the form teacher do ? |
| 11 | MEMBERS of Southport Branch 's Service Circle each won 50 Ovations when they came up with the idea to give printed appointment cards to customers . |
| 12 | The owners say they came up with the idea first . |
| 13 | They came up with the man with the staff at last . |
| 14 | and what they wanted was the easiest ones and they came up with the answer economics Gerald simply , we Ge Gerry and I put our heads together and went bib bib bib bib bib , you know as good parents do and we both presented him with a fait accompli you either take an engineering degree , we do n't care what sort or you go out to work in a bank because economics you will not get a first because you are not reader and t to get a first in economics , which is what you 'll need if you 're gon na make any money out of it |
| 15 | As they came up into the May morning he hopped over the ditch and skipped into the long grass as blithe as a squirrel . |
| 16 | As soon as any efforts to form national unions were made , they came up against the imbalance between Glasgow and the rest of the country . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | You were let out four times a day for slop-out , when they came round with the trolley and collected the plates . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It , just before we set off they came round in the car and they had a loaf for me . |
| 21 | The movement continued to grow and develop and to absorb new media as they came on to the market . |
| 22 | Seventy-four , they came in to the collection in seventy-four . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | They came out into the corridor together , Rostov holding back as he allowed the older and more senior man to go before him . |
| 27 | She smoked more than she had done before too lighting a cigarette with real hunger when they came out into the sunlight . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ He does n't totally trust them either , ’ the Director said to Rostov as they came out into the open . |
| 30 | They came out into the open . |