Example sentences of "come [verb] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Herbert also penned the verses which have come to sum up the general fate of such investigations :
2 Suddenly the night had erupted into a confusion of fire , noise and light , as first the house had erupted in flames and then five heavy vehicles had come roaring up the twisting driveway , headlights blazing .
3 At any rate , Barth himself was to come to make exactly the opposite criticism of the book , which he later used to call ‘ my well-known false start ’ .
4 The four men looked up as he came scrambling down the steep bank .
5 Kalchu came rushing up the notched-pole ladder .
6 I made 400 before great arcing beams of light snaked out above the eastern-bounding ridges of the valley and I had to stop as blocks and slates came hurtling down the softening snow .
7 Despite disclaimers which recommended submission to great works , the professional study of English came to transcend even the literary masterpieces themselves by virtue of its capacity to offer a complete and final assessment and achieve the kind of complete historical understanding unavailable to the historical actors themselves .
8 ‘ Madame ! ’ she called , and Miranda quickly bundled up her clothes and streaked across the landing , as the proprietress came heaving up the curving stair , the rail quaking in her grasp .
9 And then there Further up the glen from me , from our , house there 's a place called Dalnasnecht It 's a little place in the beside the water and beyond it there 's a great piece of ground on the hill and it was called er Argyll 's Reed where Argy Where all Where Argyll 's men stayed when they came to burn down the bonny house early , Forter Castle .
10 He added : ‘ The chancellor must come to explain why the secret arrangements were such that the public were never to know that this payment had been made . ’
11 Come racing out the bloody office .
12 The child comes to know when the special time is and guards it .
13 This remark had important implications in the theory of the technique of psychoanalysis , where transference — the way the analyst comes to take on the emotional elements of a parent figure for the analysand — plays a key part in understanding the therapeutic effects of psychoanalysis .
14 When it does so , it has a bigger meal than it can manage by itself and many another animal comes to lap up the spilt yolk .
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