Example sentences of "come [adv] [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To this end , they have come together under the umbrella of the Negros Ecumenical Endeavour for Development ( NEED ) , an institution that was formed in 1979 to serve deprived and oppressed communities in the central islands of the Philippines , including Negros . |
| 2 | The true population of genes , which constitutes the working environment of any given gene , is not just the temporary collection that happens to have come together in the cells of any particular individual body . |
| 3 | Place the dish in a large baking pan and pour boiling water in the pan to come halfway up the sides of the dish . |
| 4 | Plaster had come away from the walls from ceiling to floor , and along the lower part the bared cement , originally grey , was stained yellow and smelt of urine . |
| 5 | Scotland must take their chances in London against a side that has been the most consistent for the last few years if they are to come away with the spoils of victory . |
| 6 | The first priority tomorrow must be to come away from the game with at least a point . |
| 7 | He soon learned that it had come ashore on the island of Cyprus , where the ruler , Isaac Ducas Comnenus , had already seized several survivors from other wrecks and now virtually held Richard 's bride and his sister to ransom . |
| 8 | While we had been on the opposite bank a new barge had come upriver from the direction of Minya and had moored near the end of the Corniche . |
| 9 | Some women would have come downstairs with the poker at the ready . ’ |
| 10 | Return the fruit to the pan and add enough water to come just below the level of the fruit . |
| 11 | Just as Jesus had come forth from the Father into the world as the Father 's gift to mankind , so it is with the Paraclete ( 5:43,16:28 , 3:16f ) . |
| 12 | No man wants to come home from the war to a wife or sweetheart who shows in her face how much she has worried about him . |
| 13 | They had come home during the height of the disturbances to discover their teenage daughter being ravished by a young police officer . |
| 14 | The celebration of Artai 's Khanate having properly commenced , the common people were anxious to come close to the path of their newly enthroned lord through their city . |
| 15 | He held that an injunction could be granted against a stranger who had come innocently into the possession of confidential information to which he was not entitled . |
| 16 | He had come close to the mark in his various schemes for the inner cities , but he had always taken great care not to overstep the boundary . |
| 17 | A Lurgan solicitor who could speak menacing words in a slow quiet voice , he had come close to the leadership of the Unionist Party , had held cabinet office and retained good links with the paramilitaries and the workers ' leaders who had planned and organized the 1974 strike . |
| 18 | There would have been a time when most small city streets would have come clearly within the jurisdiction of one parish ; nothing so simple for Brunswick Place — it lay within the civil parish of St Leonards , the municipal ward of Hoxton New Town , the parliamentary borough of Hackney , the urban sanitary district of Hoxton , and the ecclesiastical parish of St John 's . |
| 19 | Before them was a landscape that could have come straight from the brush of Giotto . |
| 20 | He 's come straight from the heart of it . |
| 21 | She was thinking that the girl might have lacked an umbilicus ; might have come straight from the hand of God , who having finished making the mountains had picked a bit of clay from under his thumbnail and fashioned just one more sort of person , perhaps as an experiment . |
| 22 | These have come partly through the influence of Vatican II , but also because of the availability and use of a wide variety of biblical and liturgical texts in modern English . |
| 23 | In the sixth century they were said to have come originally from the island of Scandza , to have migrated to the Black Sea , and thence to have come into contact with the Roman Empire . |
| 24 | He had come now in the mid-passage of his life to a forest dark and he had lost the straight path . |
| 25 | He had come here in the autumn of 1920 . |
| 26 | Most residents of homes for the elderly are in their eighties and have come there towards the end of an active life . |
| 27 | Right at the outset , perhaps we can read a verse from one Timo , er two Timothy , chapter one and verse twelve and Paul says there , he 's come almost to the end of his life , he 's , he will shortly be , taken out and will be executed and he says , for this reason I also suffer these things . |
| 28 | The major obstacle to the restoration of Mantegna 's first documented work has always been a lack of funds , but now a sponsor has come forward in the shape of Francesco Piccolo Brunelli , an engineering contractor of Venetian origin , who lives in Africa . |
| 29 | If the unholy alliance in favour of the National Curriculum is likely to come apart at the seams over the issue of resource , so also , given the very different aspirations of those who support its introduction , there is likely to be a parting of the ways over principles . |
| 30 | The season of the hunt had come again to the people of the North Water . |