Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [adv] to the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 One of the soldiers had come up on to the cabin top .
2 We can never be a hundred per cent sure with security , we are , it is a public building , we do encourage er patients and their relatives to come up on to the children 's wards as part of the treatment er to make it a much more homely atmosphere .
3 In the less than half light Owen saw that Georgiades had come out on to the gallery .
4 Then , not even glancing at the room beyond , or at a woman who had come out on to the stairs , she led him away to a small room of perfect luxury at the back of the house , which was clearly her own .
5 Jilly Jonathan was sitting just as she had been ever since they had come out on to the terrace .
6 Then my granny had to come out on to the verandah and interfere .
7 Also pensioners , there 's now more of an incentive for them to come back on to the labour market .
8 Finally , the conversation came back around to the subject of Alina 's new job .
9 ‘ Well , I came back here to the apartment and Rico 's not home .
10 He came back smartly to the office and the desk on which he was leaning .
11 Later , when the Porter came out on to the platform , Peter asked about the white line .
12 All London came out on to the streets to watch when Essex and his men left for Ireland .
13 He came out on to the balcony with the bottle and sat down next to her .
14 The General rose from behind his enormous mahogany desk , without visibly gaining in stature , and came out on to the veranda to see us off .
15 The sound of the door opening and of voices as people came out on to the deck shocked her so much that she felt physically sick .
16 She came out on to the porch , lifting the lamp higher .
17 Mrs Pettifer came out on to the terrace with a tray , glasses and a big bottle of champagne .
18 The nearby door opened and two men came out on to the landing .
19 When she came out on to the landing , her grandmother called to her .
20 The Inspector who reported on that Litchfield city local plan said , go away , leave your Litchfield city plan and look at the options beyond the greenbelt , including erm the possibility of a new village , and I think that 's that 's the point here , instead of rolling back the greenbelt you should be looking beyond , you know , what is the general extent of the greenbelt to see what options are available , just coming on then to the size point , again that Mr Grantham raised , I have through erm experience both in the Cambridge situation which I referred to extensively erm in my statement , and in East Staffordshire where we are promoting a plan , er a site for a new village which is included in the deposited plan , we 've looked in both the Cambridge and the er East Staffordshire situation , bo at service provision , both from speaking to the providers of those services and whether or not they need a specific facility in the settlement , and from the developers point of view , that if you 've got a pot of money what can you afford to erm provide within a settlement of that size , and the conclusions we are rai er sort of reaching are a du a settlement of the order of twelve fifty dwellings can support your primary school , community centre , erm a range of shops , and so on and so forth , so what I 'm saying in my submission that the an appropriate size is in the thousand fifteen hundred mark , is that were you can get a reasonable co balance of community facilities and provide the relevant infrastructure in terms of services .
21 The extraordinary thing was , you could see them coming down on to the leaves as you passed and waving their heads around , sniffing , and when you were underneath they would just drop and go straight down your neck , or on to your ears , hundreds of them .
22 Winter was coming in slowly to the North East of Scotland .
23 Raymond Radiguet was a youth of 12 when Modigliani painted him , a brilliant schoolboy who had won a scholarship to a Paris Lycée and began coming in daily to the city from the suburbs .
24 ‘ Certainly , madam , ’ I said , coming back abruptly to the matter in hand and , realizing with a shock that she had already asked me once , I fetched her a knife fast .
25 They had to walk down the long straight street past Shea 's pub with its sour smell of drink coming out on to the street from behind its dark windows , past Birdie Mac 's sweet shop where they had spent so much time choosing from jars all their school life .
26 Coming out on to the landing he was horrified to find Eleanor mounting the stairs , this time wearing a thick tweed trouser suit with a scarf wrapped round her throat , presumably as some sort of protection against the peasouper outside which he knew , to his cost , had already infiltrated his lodgings and was making him cough .
27 But I 'll come up here to the post office this evening , and call you again . ’
28 These two had known each other for well over thirty years , meeting first at school and then finding their paths crossing again and again as they shifted with their respective jobs , till finally they had both come back permanently to the town they started from .
29 But why did he come out on to the moor ?
30 Come on up to the bridge . ’
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