Example sentences of "come [prep] [pron] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Indeed , the suggestion might well have come from him in the first place , which would have been so much better for everyone . |
| 2 | It had come to him over the last year or so that there was only one thing that made him different from other men , and that was the weight he was carrying on his mind . |
| 3 | Nothing came for her by the first post . |
| 4 | Since it was the golden-fleeced ram the king really wanted , he was not at all pleased when Marko came before him on the seventh day with a jug of sweet wine and a cluster of grapes in his handkerchief . |
| 5 | ‘ It came from me in the first place , did n't it ? |
| 6 | One such attempt came to nothing during the Second World War , when a military coup mounted under the pro-Nazi Rashid Ali al-Gailani was defeated . |
| 7 | You will also find a splendid array of fine performers who are coming to us for the first time — many surely due to be favourites of the future . |
| 8 | ‘ She did come to me in the first place . ’ |
| 9 | How did you come across her in the first place ? ’ |