Example sentences of "come [adv] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 We know more about Milton , his personal concerns and his literary plans than we do about any other poet of his time , and indeed it may be that we have to come right up to the nineteenth century before we learn so much about the inner life of any poet .
2 We had fellows who had come straight out of the First World War , afraid of nothing .
3 Even though we spent that money we are projected to come in with balances of three million pounds in excess of the budget figure set by the Conservatives , and that is a six million pounds difference that 's come straight out of the twenty-four and I think it tells us two things .
4 The phone call came right out of the blue : would I like to take a small party up north to Spitsbergen ?
5 The major-domo came quickly out of the inner chamber .
6 He came straight up to the open window and smiled .
7 And then I have always fancied a little hall and stairs because at the farm the stairs came straight down to the front door .
8 ‘ I have got a very good deal , and it came virtually out of the blue , ’ said the Doncaster-based rider , who until last week thought his future lay with a new team being planned in Belgium .
9 He came briefly back from the dead a few minutes later , pulling into a Backdoor tube and getting fried on the reef .
10 The inner cities came seriously on to the political agenda and Michael Heseltine made a brave attempt to introduce new policies to tackle the undoubted deprivation .
11 The late sun setting over the mainland lays a bright path over the water , coming right in at the small bay .
12 Much as I hope this will never occur , all that would happen is that the patient would either open his eyes and come completely out of the hypnotic state , or that he might doze for some ten or fifteen minutes before waking as if from a nap in an armchair .
13 The second part , which comes right up to the 1980s , will be international in character and recently acquired works by Fontana , Schnabel , Newman , Kelly , Gordillo and Navarro will be exhibited .
14 The latter quality comes directly out of the former , and there is a nice continuity in Mr Eliot 's work .
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