Example sentences of "they [vb past] come [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similar complaints were heard in the Church of England about the condition of curates during the nineteenth century , a time when what pay they got came from the parish priest under whom they served or whose place they took in the parish while he lived elsewhere . |
| 2 | They agreed to come to the negotiating table and Robert Carnwath , with their counsel , drafted terms of agreement under which a settlement could be worked out . |
| 3 | Er they started coming in the Christmas oranges . |
| 4 | As soon as they had come through the hedge they saw Fiver . |
| 5 | He and Whelan would have had a better chance if they had come along the floor more often , even despite the permanent ten-man claret and blue wall . |
| 6 | They had come to the hotel to make love . |
| 7 | D'Alembord was an old friend who had dined frequently with Sharpe and Lucille since they had come to the Netherlands . |
| 8 | They had come to the Kingsbrook bridge and the beginning of the footpath to Sewingbury that followed the waters of the river . |
| 9 | But they had come to the door of her apartment and the moment was here and now , impossible to delay . |
| 10 | They had come to the stile at the end of the park . |
| 11 | Brian felt that they had come to the end of that day 's talk . |
| 12 | Since they had come to the house she had grown progressively calmer , more relaxed . |
| 13 | And they had come to the conclusion that it was not American slate cos there were no quarries in that time . |
| 14 | Then Joseph realized why they had come upon the city so completely by surprise ; it was the uncanny silence . |
| 15 | They had come from the Murray . |
| 16 | On the carpet by the tallboy were several red carnations , as fresh as they had come from the florist , and beside them , a shattered glass spill . |
| 17 | Someone stepped on a loose plank in the alley down which they had come from the bridge , and the timber squealed . |
| 18 | Originally they had come from the Dartmoor Pony Sale as weanlings the previous autumn and had spent the winter in a large stable . |
| 19 | They had come in the night and lit a fire under the stage . |
| 20 | Meredith waved goodbye and watched her set off back the way they had come in the direction of Pook 's stables . |
| 21 | Mind you , a lot of them had come from the army and from the navy — but I do n't think that makes man 's nature alter to that effect . |