Example sentences of "come [adv] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donna shivered and decided to head back to the car , not even sure why she had come here in the first place . |
| 2 | A thousand people have come here in the last year and another thousand are expected in the next year . |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't ask you to come here in the first place , and I certainly did n't ask for your help out here . |
| 4 | The possibility of getting that accommodation encourages many refugees to come here in the first place . |
| 5 | I was confident I could wear her down eventually , but I certainly never expected her to come across at the first time of asking . |
| 6 | It was on this trip that a remarkable partnership came together for the first time . |
| 7 | Four of the five protagonists of this story — Greco-Macedonians , Romans , Jews and Celts — came together for the first time in the Hellenistic period . |
| 8 | However , the worst outrage on Fox Hill came only after the Second World War , when horrid concrete housing was plonked on the top . |
| 9 | Susan came downstairs for the first time on Christmas Eve , and was genuinely delighted to see how pretty Breeze had made the sombre old dining-room . |
| 10 | I should say that I , I came away from the last meeting with an enormous list of things to do , and I have n't managed to do them all , but they 'll emerge as we go through , erm , developments Perth , Perth if inter interrupt me |
| 11 | During the visit , which came shortly after the 50th anniversary of the start of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union ( " Operation Barbarossa " ) on June 22 , 1941 [ see pp. 4667-69 ] , both leaders confirmed their countries ' friendship . |
| 12 | The crunch came early in the next year . |
| 13 | The only goal came midway through the second half . |
| 14 | One goal was good enough … it came midway through the second half … skipper Andy Melville ran it in and ran off to celebrate … |
| 15 | The winner came midway through the second half . |
| 16 | At about this time , the BBC offered him a World Service job based in London and , at the age of 30 , he came here for the first time . |
| 17 | She came across for the first time today , I was out egg yard getting some eggs |
| 18 | And another good old word is the crome , now er that was one I came across for the first time when I came into Suffolk , the crome . |
| 19 | But what does amaze me , is the reason why this motion came forward in the first place . |
| 20 | Trying to mould together a side in only four days with eight players coming together for the first time is a pretty difficult task . |
| 21 | In early July the waiting was broken by the excitement of Maggie coming home for the first time since she had left for London . |
| 22 | His father had been ‘ under the weather , since July , and Lewis was half-aware that he might be coming home for the last time . |
| 23 | Both teams were somewhat weakened for this visit of Lansdowne to Eaton Park but Ballymena just about deserved their narrow 3–0 win , the only score of the game , a penalty by Derek McAleese coming midway through the second half . |
| 24 | Royston Lambert captured this mood in a seventeen-year-old boy talking about his family and school : ‘ They have been coming here since the seventeenth century , I think , although what they did before that I ca n't imagine , had Tutors I suppose . |
| 25 | And I reflect that if you remember to post early , the letter will come here by the first post ! |
| 26 | You go to the most wonderful places , you STAND in Soweto outside Nelson Mandela 's little house and watch him come home for the first time in 25 years . |
| 27 | ‘ Come forward from the second post , ’ I was directed , ‘ to the left of that group of six … it 's lifted its head . |