Example sentences of "come [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The village founded by King Billy has come through the bad times and it has not surrendered . |
| 2 | Much later , it seemed , she awoke and when she turned over and looked towards where the chanting had come from the African men and women had eaten and were packing away and decamping . |
| 3 | Here , COURSE and LECTURER come from the original entities and TIMETABLE stems from information about the coincidence of the two , that is , their relationship . |
| 4 | They were country people in a sense that Melanie was not , although she had just come from the green fields and they might have lived in London all their lives . |
| 5 | The main differences between the account of the journalist and the sociologist come from the different orientations that each brings to the subject of study . |
| 6 | If some clarity of purpose and coherence of action is to take the place of this drift , the ideas and energy ought to come from the political parties because , in theory , they are supposed to provide the driving force in political development . |
| 7 | At the end of the hut a boy waited , sitting hunched on an upper bunk , for darkness to come to the living quarters because then he could go to the mattress of the man who loved him … |
| 8 | It is interesting that recent research has come to the same conclusions as Golding as to the usefulness of such modes of thought : The deployment of simile , underlexicalisation and metaphor thus makes a major contribution to the exposition of the novel 's thematic concern with the linked development of thought and language in the people . |
| 9 | He must have come across the low fences that separated the row of back gardens . |
| 10 | I remember well , during the air-raids of the forties when I was in London and we waited as darkness came for the first sirens and the deep breath to get one 's courage up , that we felt we were part of the will of the capital of England . |
| 11 | I held them off with steelies and stones , and they fired back with air-guns , and for a while it was quite exciting , but then Mrs Clamp came with the weekly messages and threatened to call the police , and after calling her a few nasty names they left . |
| 12 | It was impossible not to feel that she had been badly treated , but the bad treatment came from the intransigent doctors and not from a Prime Minister who , as she must have known , was immensely supportive and would not willingly have been associated with any slight on her . |
| 13 | What representations have the Government made about the new proposal , particularly in Latvia , to restrict citizenship to those whose descendants came from the Baltic states and to those who speak the Baltic languages ? |
| 14 | At first most came from the British Isles and northern Europe , but from the 1880s increasing numbers arrived from central , southern and eastern Europe from the Austro-Hungarian Empire , Italy , Greece and the Russian Empire . |
| 15 | Although they spoke German and came from the same backgrounds as their charges , they were often young and inexperienced and unprepared for the demands of the work . |
| 16 | The woman came down the remaining stairs and stood before Lee , so close that he could smell the perfume — expensive and subtle — off her . |
| 17 | According to the former , Molla Edebali , a native of Karaman , came to the Ottoman lands and there won the complete confidence of Osman so that the latter " used to refer to him problems in the Seriat and to consult with him in matters of government " . |
| 18 | If the queries coming into the public relations or press office are short questions they can usually be answered on the spot , but quite often they will be in the form of a general request for information on a specific topic and it could be that your organisation has in its files a good deal of material which could be sent out . |
| 19 | Most active construction is coming from the smaller chains and operators like Quality Inns . |
| 20 | Er I think that , that my recollection of the last meeting was that if we could just knock together a Northumberland newsletter a unison newsletter that 's quite clearly coming from the three organizations that represent the membership in Northumberland it would be better than th this national stuff has one union on it , as I see it at the moment . |
| 21 | And make no mistake , although this has been introduced in a piecemeal and seemingly haphazard manner , it is in effect a well thought out policy , with the strategy coming from the Tory think-tanks and implemented with gusto by their close friends and allies in both public and private industry . |
| 22 | The locks did n't come off the animal-house doors until Jenner had cleared out . ’ |
| 23 | As the company is worth less than £30 million , it does not come under the same rules as the water authority when privatised . |
| 24 | They did n't happen often , and could come at the unlikeliest times and places . |
| 25 | Water comes through the roof seams through the windscreen frame and can even come around the rear vents and down the roof side rails to fall on the driver 's knee when braking . |
| 26 | They come from the roughest jails where they expect trouble all the time . |
| 27 | They come from the upper classes and are socially acceptable . |
| 28 | Yes , they come from the local schools and erm The Watch , the children of what they call The Watch erm part of the Sussex Trust come along , and erm oh , they just pop in and very often they , at the end of term they come with tadpoles and things that they Oh , I , I have n't mentioned the frogs and toads , we 've plenty of those . |
| 29 | J. Three of the trading estates have had New Towns built with them to house workers and their families who come from the larger towns or from villages where there is no more work . |
| 30 | And if you can just when you come across the odd ones that do start with K just learn those and then instead of learning about a hundred thousand or something |