Example sentences of "come [prep] the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And he was encouraged by the way he came through the first 10-round contest of his 33-fight unbeaten career . |
| 32 | Perhaps the snake came through the air-vent many times before it killed Julia . |
| 33 | Also on the recovery trail is Marine fullback Keith Proctor , who came through the full 90 minutes of a reserve game at the weekend after a six-week injury lay-off . |
| 34 | I do not know how I came through the next few months — but , yes , I do . |
| 35 | His rise to prominence came during the first Dutch war ( 1652–4 ) . |
| 36 | The calls came as the British Medical Association in a new report stepped up its demands for a total ban on boxing . |
| 37 | ‘ That 's the calm sea , ’ he pointed out the inlet that ran to Ballysadare as they came along the narrow twisting road into Strandhill . |
| 38 | The breakthrough came with the middle-of-the-road National Union of Railwaymen , which promised to come up with their target £150,000 ‘ subject to a positive response from a number of other unions ’ . |
| 39 | He said : ‘ The selection committee is multi-racial and we came with the 30 best players we could pick . |
| 40 | The spray-painting on the wall came with the big double M in. ‘ 87 — Meltdown in the Market , which started on Wall Street — but some of the bigger houses and the banks were already letting people go . ’ |
| 41 | The first grassroot backlash in the Ulster public came within the Irish republican districts . |
| 42 | The best final came in the under-10 open tournament . |
| 43 | The castle 's end as a noble residence finally came in the late 17th century , and it was eventually given into state care in 1935 . |
| 44 | Zhelev 's victory came in the second round run-off , when he won 53 per cent of the vote against 47 per cent for Velko Valkanov , an independent supported by the ( former communist ) Bulgarian Socialist Party . |
| 45 | Portsmouth 's best chance came in the sixty fourth minute , a great breakaway down the left , the cross coming in , seventeen goal man Guy Whittingham getting his head to the ball , but it was n't going to be his eighteenth goal of the season , because Ken Vasey dived to his right , just got his finger tips to the ball and held on to it and the chance had gone . |
| 46 | He was also ready for office , and was delighted when an offer came in the first few weeks of the new Government . |
| 47 | Meaby 's crucial thrust came in the decisive bottom match at the 13th after he and Davies had lost the 11th and 12th and fallen back to all-square . |
| 48 | The best bit of leeds pressure and the noisiest participation from the crowd came in the next 10 mins or so . |
| 49 | Two of the goals came in the last two minutes . |
| 50 | this match will go down in the records as a runaway victory for United but all the goals came in the last ten minutes … |
| 51 | What does my hon. Friend think of the actions of Derbyshire county council , which refused one low-cost tender because it came in the wrong coloured envelope and ended up accepting a higher tender from its own work force at an enormous extra cost to charge payers ? |
| 52 | They came from the right hon. Member for Brent , North ( Sir R. Boyson ) ; from the hon. Member for Hendon , South ( Mr. Marshall ) ; from the hon. Member for Lancaster ( Dame E. |
| 53 | I was married to Bernard Parkin for fifteen years , a man who came from the lower middle class , but identified quite violently , for a number of years , with the workers . |
| 54 | James II 's marriage to Mary of Gueldres had the attraction of providing him with a queen who came from the great artillery-making centre of northern Europe . |
| 55 | From the 1960s to the 1980s , they came from the impoverished north-eastern states — Paraiba , Pernambuco , Bahia and Minas Gerais — to find shelter , food and livelihood in a city that has expelled them . |
| 56 | Most of the basic equipment came from the British General Post Office , then responsible for Britain 's telephone system . |
| 57 | Strong opposition against the measure came from the Hindu communalist Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) and other Hindu groups . |
| 58 | Most of them came from the single European act . |
| 59 | A year head who originally came from the secondary modern school at the time of reorganisation had this to say on the status of the school : |
| 60 | There are also clear indications that although the assassinations may have been carried out by low-ranking army officers the orders came from the military high command . |