Example sentences of "come [prep] [art] [noun pl] ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 've come for the children 's parade , ’ he said softly , motioning her to a seat . |
| 2 | Possibly this was not the intention of Parliament for " restored " seems inappropriate to describe the situation where goods have come into the police 's possession . |
| 3 | I do n't I thin I think there 's probably a lot lot less sexism just in terms of I think we 've won their respect by you know and and certainly when th they did n't want us to picket in the beginning , and then over the months really the women have done quite a lot of successful picketing when we 've been asked and and we 've staged quite big pickets quite a lot of you know the big pickets were really organized and the rallies have been organized by us and really sort of quite a lot of the input into into the strike I think has come from the women 's support group in in quite a unique way . |
| 4 | The Major began to feel that Onyx Muggeridge was not quite what he had come to a Parents ' Evening for , and was quite grateful when the headmaster disengaged himself with palpable reluctance from the Fromes and sailed in his direction , exuding Manner . |
| 5 | In 1933 it first appeared in its present format , accompanied by the slim one-volume Supplement which added quotations , words , and meanings that had come to the editors ' attention after the publication of the relevant part of the Dictionary . |
| 6 | He had come to the comrades ' attention when he wrote an article in the journal of the Right-On wing of the Communist Party , Marxism Today , shortly before the £750 GLC pre-feasibility study was completed in November 1984 . |
| 7 | Another dramatic instance of historical déjà vu came during the miners ' strike , when it was reported that an attack had been made on the police station in Malby , South Yorkshire , scene of an anti-police riot a century earlier when the ‘ new police ’ first arrived there . |
| 8 | Fussy stripes and piping , shoulder flashes and chest panels , buttons , drawstrings and cuffs all came under the manufacturers ' scrutiny and were tampered with . |
| 9 | She came into the working-men 's club one lunchtime and got her bottle of stout . |
| 10 | It set out therefore to ensure , in consultation with the DES , that surveying came within the polytechnics ' orbit and that ‘ centres of excellence ’ for surveying education were established . |
| 11 | The most immediate effect upon the lives of the people , however , came in the railways ' ability to transport perishable foodstuffs very long distances , not just within but between countries . |
| 12 | The giant wrought-iron entrance gates , for example , came from the people of Tetbury , the fruit trees espaliered against the walls of the vegetable garden were presented by the Worshipful Company of Fruiterers and the herbs came from a women 's institute in Sussex . |
| 13 | Eventually a reply came from the Islands ' Director of Administration and Legal Services , Rowan McCallum . |
| 14 | Another important source of secondary danger clues came from the parents ' life histories : for example , parents who had certain ‘ personality traits ’ , had been abused or ‘ in care ’ themselves as children , had been in regular ‘ trouble ’ as children or/and as adults , were seen as being more likely to harm their children . |
| 15 | The colour came from the men 's uniforms , gorgeous uniforms , uniforms of scarlet and gold , royal blue and saffron , silver and black ; uniforms of Hussars , Dragoons , Guards , Jaegers and kilted Highlanders . |
| 16 | I came over the Brownies ' Bridge . |
| 17 | Aunt Margaret came to the girls ' bedroom and unhandily undressed Victoria , although she could perfectly well undress herself . |
| 18 | Six minutes from the end Murdoch again came to the visitors ' rescue when he dived to block a shot from Hateley . |
| 19 | Many came to the women 's movement from backgrounds where the state was viewed as an instrument for enacting their own class specific demands . |
| 20 | The Fijian captain , Waisale Serevi — whose side defeated the district of Suva 26-0 in the final — came to the Scots ' hotel to say ‘ thank-you , good-bye and good-luck , ’ to the teams who had ventured to Fiji 's first such tournament . |
| 21 | I think but continuing down the corridor erm which was all the Education Department , you came to the typists ' room right at the bottom of the corridor on the left |
| 22 | Suddenly they heard loud cries coming from the servants ' rooms , at the side of the house . |
| 23 | People seem to assume that it will , but although women may expect it , there 's nothing coming from the men 's movement , the working men 's clubs , the trade unions and the Labour Party to encourage that transition . |
| 24 | He imagined a policeman with nothing more to go on than a tiny , once brightly embroidered , label , a square inch of bloodstained , earth-stained , half-rotted cloth , hawking it round boutiques in Kilburn and West Hendon , narrowing the field , finally coming to an importers ' warehouse … |
| 25 | The once-in-a-while reward is often used to deal with disobedience about coming to the parents ' bed in the middle of the night . |
| 26 | She 'd come into the women 's group after the others had spent some time talking about their individual relations to femaleness ; feminism for her was a safe place , a rhetoric spoken to her by other women , a description they made of her , a set of ideas they had worked out and which she acquired to wear as a badge . |
| 27 | When the signal for launching crusade finally did come to the Fists ' astropaths , Battle Brothers would depart in warpships from the jutting sword-deck — to return , perhaps years later in realspace time , as heroes … and some as cripples needing reconstruction by the experts in the Apothacarion … and others as honoured corpses , or perhaps only in the form of retrieved progenoid glands from which new Marines would be kindled . |
| 28 | Ironically , the quest for profits may ultimately come to the dolphins ' rescue . |
| 29 | I come from a learners ' perspective , a needs ' perspective , and I do n't believe that anybody has a God-given right to make those programmes with all these resources without thinking about it that way . |
| 30 | For that , he needed not just hundreds of incorruptible field agents writing down what they overheard , but also analysts able to detect when people were joking ; some of the oddest accusations , like Eleanor Roosevelt 's supposed affair with two lefty trades unionists , come from the agents ' innocence of dirty jokes . |