Example sentences of "come [prep] the [adj] [noun] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | The smooth pillars which support it in the centre have capitals of a style that has made some art historians suppose that they may originally have come from the Roman villa or palace presumed to have existed on this site in the fourth century . |
| 2 | When she had stopped the car and climbed out , she wondered for a moment whether she had come on the wrong day or at the wrong time , though she was sure she had not . |
| 3 | The experience is like entering the catacombs and I would n't have been the least surprised to have come across the odd skull or two in this formidable kind of Davey Jones ' locker . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Erm and I would I would want to try and do some er organize some press coverage at that time for the losers as well as for the winner so that a a and one of the things when we select the participants , er the entrants , er we will not have them all coming from the same school or from the same area , even if the five best entrants all do come from the same school . |
| 6 | The stone did n't hit him and luckily it did n't come through the front window or something more serious could have happened . ’ |
| 7 | God 's constant watch over the created world is compared to that of a female bird caring for its young , or a woman suckling her child ( these images come from the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If John and Bill have a lot in common if , for example , they come from the same community or are part of the same culture then Bill is likely to interpret most of the signals in the way John intended . |
| 10 | Most messages about the significance of the TVEI programme for the education of younger children come from the secondary sector or from those who speak for the ministries , either of Employment or of Education and Science . |
| 11 | The child or young person very seldom comes to the social worker or agency to state a case for social work intervention in his or her affairs . |
| 12 | Only when it comes to the nuclear deterrent or matters of top intelligence-gathering is the short-term commercial approach deliberately shelved . |