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

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31 For the first time Gould came up against the devastating effects of unlimited commercial exploitation .
32 ONCE-RACED MILIYEL * , who came up against the 1,000 Guineas ante-post favourite Musicale when both made their debut at Lingfield last season , may open her account in the Geoffrey Barling Maiden Fillies ' Stakes ( 2.00 ) at Newmarket today .
33 Sounds came back to the watching eagles .
34 The surface had just begun to shimmer in the light when Mrs Rosalia Alderley came out through the French windows of the ballroom and stopped , staring in thunderstruck amazement .
35 A late arrival came out between the automatic doors , stared at the queue , walked back inside to join the uniformed chauffeur who had been waiting and holding a card .
36 Mahmoud came out of the Mixed Tribunals and crossed the street towards him .
37 That came out of the Current Issues in Agricultural Economics book .
38 Hulagu came out of the clustered spectators .
39 Someone came out of The Two Pheasants and latched the door back to the wall hospitably .
40 He came out of the northern clubs and was loved by millions . ’
41 Matthew and Sara and the children with them came out of the old woods into the new plantation , where rows of conifers , dark green , were interplanted with small spindly brighter green beeches .
42 Gazzer came out of the main doors of St Mark 's .
43 No one asked that question , they simply focused upon er the , the communist insurrection in the south and the American , American commitment to the global containment of communism meant that they had to go and do something about it and domestic political pressures were there too er President Kennedy came out of the Cuban missiles crisis a hero because his people mistakenly believed that he 'd won a foreign policy success and that he 'd acted in a restrained and statesmanlike manor .
44 Woodward came out as the two men turned and walked away in step .
45 When I was in the hospital after I 'd had Baby , a bloke came round with the different contraceptives , saying which one are you going to use .
46 ‘ Itsi ’ won his cap eighteen years ago , coming on in the dying seconds of an 8–1 victory over Hong Kong .
47 From his new station he could see the three lakes — Loweswater , Crummock Water and Buttermere — lined up in the valley like three barges ready to be towed down to the shore ; he could see the bivouac huts of some woodmen and he spotted more than one flock coming down from the high pastures — but Mary chided him .
48 Here , in bad weather , there are reputed to be spectacular collisions between the seawater coming in on the westerly winds and the fresh water trying to get out .
49 In addition to the students coming in through the normal channels , two non-uniform routes have emerged during the eighties .
50 But coming in from the shabby streets outside , which smell of coal and cement dust and Wartburg exhausts , the effect is of life and excitement .
51 ‘ When we split up I was really pissed off that we had n't achieved a lot of things we could have done , and that mood was coming through in the last records because it was depressing .
52 and then you 've got smaller branches coming off of the smaller branches
53 Of the young players coming up through the Jamaican ranks , Walsh rates in particular the 21-year-old left-hander Robert Samuels , opening batsman Delroy Morgan , and fast bowler Joel Grant , while Jimmy Adams has already made an impressive Test debut against South Africa .
54 I would have no difficulty whatever in going on any hustings and waxing eloquent about foul sewage coming up in the wrong places .
55 The children who are coming up from the primary schools to secondary schools are going through a change themselves , and it would be such a broad area that we could integrate Science , English , Maths and everything under that sort of umbrella .
56 All gullies , whether they take waste water from upstairs fittings ( via a hopper head ) or waste from kitchen sinks , must have traps to prevent smells coming up from the underground drains .
57 Coming out for the same reasons , Nicholas found him there and heard him make his excuses .
58 ‘ For coming out of the dark ages fighting , with good new cars and a bolder vision of the future ’
59 Their running was impeded by the mass of men coming out of the main doors and scattering in all directions , and heads down , they made their way between them to the back of the Naafi and into the rest room , which was empty ; and they were just in the process of taking off their wet top coats when the supervisor came in , saying , ‘ Oh , I 'm in luck ; I was about to send to the hut for help .
60 Pleat had the chance to follow the same path trod by Terry Venables at Tottenham but could n't come up with the necessary funds for a stake in the struggling First Division outfit .
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