Example sentences of "come [prep] the [noun sg] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've come through the hole in time . |
| 2 | , John ( d. ante Feb. 1315 ) , popularly regarded as a saint , should not be assumed to have come from the village in Kent of that name . |
| 3 | A chance mention in a letter written in the 820s shows that one card in a Carolingian king 's hand was the existence of a " solemn custom " whereby any recipient of a benefice had to come to the palace in person and ritually " commend " himself to the king . |
| 4 | The thought has come to the surface in order to be released . |
| 5 | Vice-Admiral Hawkins , together with his two scientist friends , had just come to the bridge in response to Talbot 's invitation that they join him . |
| 6 | He came through the wall in front of me ! |
| 7 | The appeal for a day of prayer for peace came as the conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina grows worse and threatens to spread into other areas of the Balkans and beyond . |
| 8 | The meetings came after the publication in February of a report by American lawyers which contained further allegations about the circum stances surrounding the UDA murder of Belfast solicitor Patrick Finucane at his home in 1989 . |
| 9 | Two community schemes came under the spotlight in Middlesbrough yesterday . |
| 10 | OVERCOMING rural isolation through teleworking came under the spotlight in Stanhope . |
| 11 | When one came under the hammer in Morgan 's — the boat belonged to a fisherman who no longer required it — it drew strong bidding and sold for £2,000 . |
| 12 | New German money flocked to buy jewels , silver and objets de vertu touched with the lustre of German history when the treasures superfluous to requirements of the Fürsts von Thurn und Taxis came under the hammer in Geneva on 17 November . |
| 13 | In the period following the Great Fire of London in 1666 several companies were floated , but the real expansion came with the increase in urbanisation of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries . |
| 14 | Apparent success came with the announcement in April 1985 of a three quarter million pound investment programme to resignal the line . |
| 15 | Evidence that drug-related corruption had penetrated Venezuelan institutions came with the arrest in June of Adolfo Ramirez Torres , a former governor of the Federal District of Caracas , who was accused of being part of a cocaine smuggling ring . |
| 16 | During the sixteenth century Myddle was essentially a society consisting of numerous smallholders and a few large farmers , but from the second half of Elizabeth 's reign onwards poor immigrants came into the parish in search of labouring work and the opportunity to erect a cottage in the woods or on the manorial wastes . |
| 17 | He came into the department in Orkney at a time of crisis , his remit to operate on a shoestring budget , and to repair social work 's damaged reputation . |
| 18 | They came into the city in trainloads . |
| 19 | However , the invasion of Rhodes was cancelled when German troops came into the fighting in Greece . |
| 20 | A growing athleticism and professionalism came into the game in Australia . |
| 21 | The single small pellet collection came from the desert in Qatar ( Table 2.3 ) , and the analysis of bones from this desert variety shows remarkable similarity to the bone assemblage from Sweden despite the great difference in species composition and diversity of the prey . |
| 22 | The memory-discs connected to these computers came from the factory in Mainz , West Germany , and the printers from the factory at Jarfalla in Sweden . |
| 23 | The expression is well known in the South , especially among service families and may I add , there were a great number of fine soldiers who came from the South in units as famous as that fine body of men who serve and have served in the DLI . |
| 24 | I did the er there was a an ambulance came down the road in front of a bus you see , and a chap which was on the cor , side the road and he he went like this so I stopped and the ambulance came round and turned into this building site and I and while we were sitting there bang ! |
| 25 | That would be bad news for Wales , although they have expected all along that wonder wing David Campese would be 100 per cent by the time it came to the crunch in Cardiff . |
| 26 | And it came to the crunch in April , I was on a death wish . |
| 27 | Vince Hilaire was a supremely talented winger who came to the fore in Palace 's great FA Youth Cup-winning side of 1977 , and then matured in Division 2 in 1977–78 while helping the club retain the Youth Cup at the same time . |
| 28 | She came to the house in response to a card Miss Matlock had placed in a local newsagent 's window and Miss Matlock took her on to replace a cleaning woman who had recently left . ’ |
| 29 | Paramedics came to the house in Thompson Street , Darlington , and struggled to revive her but it was too late . |
| 30 | The visitor to , or resident of , Looe who strolls along Banjo Pier , drives round to Hannafore Point , or rides the railway to Liskeard has , for these feats of engineering skill , to thank a Cornishman who came to the town in retirement in 1890 . |