Example sentences of "we come [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think it might even be further away than we came on the Long Drive , ’ said Masklin quietly . |
| 2 | ‘ The memory will always be with me of those lads ' faces , even though at the time I was only twenty years old myself , to see them sat on the floor of the aircraft , and some of the trying to negotiate the main spar , and the cheers and tears when we came over the white cliffs of England . |
| 3 | Cos , they sold out the , that 's all now and I think came from Yarmouth , they used , they used to have a big place at Yarmouth and we came through the other week and er I see their sheds are nearly all empty now , there . |
| 4 | After 15 minutes we came to the comforting realisation that the phone had come unplugged from its socket . |
| 5 | Someone whistled them out when we came to the narrowest place , bows strung and shafts fitted , shouting to us to halt . |
| 6 | There is nothing new in that ; we came to the same conclusion earlier when studying the field of a line charge . |
| 7 | Eventually we came to the Old Mill area where there were no railings at the waterside , making the mill pond quite a frightening place for small children . |
| 8 | But when we came to the Old Town , the Marshal and Sapt moved nearer to my horse , and I could see that they were afraid for me . |
| 9 | When we came to the German trenches there was nothing to see . |
| 10 | When we came to the third hole I thought we were going to need some of that cushion . |
| 11 | We look like we came to the wrong party — like we brought our adopted son to his friend 's birthday , and called at the wrong address . |
| 12 | ‘ As we came off the 17th green Seve said , ‘ There 's going to be a playoff . ’ |
| 13 | As we came off the 17th green Seve said , ‘ There 's going to be a playoff . ’ |
| 14 | But erm we went into half time , and we were very pleased with the way things had gone , and it was just a case of trying to keep it going erm we stopped them from playing erm and then we came off the second half and everything just seemed to go wrong for us . |
| 15 | As we came into the front hall I heard Kevin yelling up the stairs , ‘ Stop the hammering ! |
| 16 | You know when we came in the other day , you came to see the sofa ? |
| 17 | Yeah , and I said erm , and I said that were n't , if that was n't enough I said bearing in mind he 'd just come out of intensive care off a life support machine , I said and which I think that , that tells us that he needs a bit of extra care compared to some of them on the ward , I said I know they 're all important and I know you 're busy but I said I think you should 've had a bit of priority , he was dying , and you know he 's dying , you 'd been told , she said yes that 's right , I said but what really broke my bloody heart was from one o'clock that dinner time he sat in that chair , we left that hospital at half past eight and you assured us he 'd go to bed and when we came in the next morning at half past ten Joy he sat there exactly the bloody same , in the same filthy blanket and the same catheter on him , oh I went fucking mad and I said how dare you , I said because somebody 's told they 're dying does that mean they 've got to be forgot ? |
| 18 | It was a pleasant walk along well-trodden paths through Birbeck Woods beyond which we came upon the first set of workings in Gunnerside Gill : the remains of dressing floors belonging to the Old Gang Mining Company . |
| 19 | As we came upon the moving picture with its ability not only to entertain us but also to analyse what we could not easily see with the unaided eye , we began to recognize that we had new tools for discovery ; we now knew exactly how a horse used its feet in galloping , what an explosion was like in slow motion , what a street looked like to the condensed eye of the time-lapse camera . |
| 20 | Once the New Year festivities are out of the way , we expect that sales will pick up significantly and continue to improve as we come into the traditional pre-spring buying season . ’ |
| 21 | Finally , we come to the new county of Mid-Glamorgan , which inherited as its institution of higher education the Glamorgan Polytechnic , at Treforest , Pontypridd . |
| 22 | In summary , we come to the following conclusion : |
| 23 | Now we come to the current account — the year-by-year income and expenditure on which the holding will succeed or fail . |
| 24 | Now we come to the serious part of this letter . |
| 25 | So we come to the second implication , which is that the student has to understand the practical aspects of the life of reason . |
| 26 | At this stage we do not know whether the " dayes ' are general ( which would imply that the missing verb is are ) or particular ; but we get a clearer picture when we come to the second clause " when I / Shin " d " . |
| 27 | After the victory at the sea the triumph song , but hardly have the last notes escaped Israel 's lips than we come to the second story of complaint ( 15.22–7 ) . |
| 28 | So we come to the second point . |
| 29 | This paradox about being able to predict one 's actions is closely related to the problem I mentioned earlier : Will the ultimate theory determine that we come to the right conclusions about the ultimate theory ? |
| 30 | It is only at this point that we come to the central theme , the reason why all those who wish to understand the problem of drugs in sport should read this book . |