Example sentences of "come [prep] the [num ord] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Mark Breland took less than four rounds to come through the third defence of his WBC welterweight title yesterday in Tokyo , opening up a bad cut above the right eye of his Japanese challenger , Fujio Ozaki .
2 In the long term , Britain has to come into the next century with a partnership in Europe .
3 Several titles are already available with the joint logo , and the first new titles under the arrangement come in the first half of this year .
4 A fall in urban rent values can also be seen in Oxford , although the evidence cited is less comprehensive than that for York , and the most drastic fall seems to have come in the second half of the fifteenth century after a period of relative stability .
5 In the Exchequer , as we have seen , they had come by the sixteenth century to be usual even for so important an officer as the Chancellor .
6 His hundred , the ninth in a career which has now entered its 15th year , came off the last ball of the game after his captain , Graham Gooch , had delayed the final formality of a declaration .
7 Sarah came through the first week of marriage with few hopes of real happiness , though she was pleased enough with her elevated circumstances .
8 The accusations came during the first day of a tribunal in which Ron Thomson claims he was forced to quit his post as general manager at the trust .
9 They came for the first lot for nine months , then they went back .
10 Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons .
11 ‘ I came into the first form of his boarding school .
12 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 .
13 Yesterday 's court hearing came in the seventh week of the bitter dispute which began as a strike in protest over lay-offs then led to the sacking of 340 workers .
14 Yesterday 's hearing came in the seventh week of the dispute which began as a strike in protest over lay-offs then led to the sacking of 340 workers .
15 On being granted freedom of the guild in 1922 Llewellyn Davies singled out three campaigns , all of which came in the second half of her term of office when the guild was emerging as an influential body and could build upon the experience of the earlier struggles — the attempt to bring cooperation within the reach of the poorest , minimum wages for women employees in cooperative societies , and reforms in married women 's lives , in particular the inclusion of maternity benefit in the 1911 National Insurance Act ( Gaffin and Thoms 1983 ) .
16 A change came in the second half of the 1370s , when there was a sharp drop in prices at a time when wages continued to rise , and from 1377 until the middle of the 1390s the Phelps Brown index shows a markedly higher level of real wages .
17 Two of them came in the first half as Bolton tore Watford to shreds .
18 Atkins felt that Peterborough 's first goal , which came in the first minute of the second-half , should have been disallowed because Cambridge goalkeeper John Vaughan had the ball kicked out of his hands by sliding Peterborough midfielder John McGlashan .
19 The only casualty came in the first week after the ceasefire last August .
20 The goal came in the 65th minute after good work on the left by Gary Barnett and Simon Charlton .
21 The sixth came in the 74th minute with Rush pouncing to punish Christophi again after he had failed to hold another Jamie Redknapp shot .
22 The death blow to the Aksumite kingdom came in the tenth century from unassimilated Agaw in the south .
23 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 ?
24 The turning point for Hunt came in the last race of the first half of the season when Lauda retired from the French Grand Prix with a rear mechanical fault and Hunt took full advantage by winning .
25 They only came in the last winter of the war , just a few months .
26 The second came in the last minute of normal time and followed an impressive maul , in which Boro drove over the line but could n't get the ball down .
27 One was the absence of faction round an heir to the throne old enough to provide a focal point for political opposition , The only exception came in the last years of James III ; in 1488 , in the second and final crisis of his reign , his opponents could use his fifteen-year-old son , the future James IV , as their figurehead .
28 Croydon 's turn came in the third stage on the night of Saturday 7 April 1951 .
29 The Nationalist denouement came in the third week of April , and the Republican at the beginning of May , in a week of violent confrontation between communists and anarchists in Barcelona .
30 She felt even sorrier for him with that stammer when he went up to read the first lesson , and had to announce that it came from the eighth chapter of Deuteronomy , a word which took him four goes .
  Next page