Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In January of 1825 Barratt had decided upon an ambitious and costly project ; a deep adit level to be driven as a cross-cut , some 230 yds. downstream from Taylor 's Level into the eastern bank of Red Dell Beck and in a northerly direction , to come in below the old workings and to explore the vein , especially below that section expected to be opened up by Taylor 's . |
| 2 | A lot of flood water had come down from the upper reaches of the Cherwell , and a body placed in the river , say , at Lonsdale Road … |
| 3 | In a way , failure to come through with the right steps is deception , because most social interaction is based on expectations of behaviour and to set up expectations and then thwart them must qualify as deception . |
| 4 | Investment analysts have come up with the following forecasts for earnings growth : |
| 5 | To come up with the right emotions for the President of the World , though hard work , was still so much easier than identifying her own . |
| 6 | Pete Waterman is making animated conversation at the bar After trying unsuccessfully to blackmail him with photographs of his dancing , we part company , wondering aloud if he would tart the programme up were Granada to come up with the big bucks . |
| 7 | Yeah , you 've come out with the right words have n't you ? |
| 8 | Whilst they had been watching the protesters , a waitress had come out of The Crossed Keys hotel on the corner of the square carrying a tray of interesting-looking glasses . |
| 9 | Erm , I 'm sorry to come back to the central overheads er again , but erm it , considering that the other income largely related to ninety one , I 'm a little unclear why the central costs went down , I ca n't believe there 's been any salary cuts at |
| 10 | It speculated that some 20,000 deaths might have come about during the forced evacuations from Moslem villages , and estimated that the Bosnian Serbs had already largely completed their plans for the creation of homogenous Serb-populated areas . |
| 11 | Thousands of imported sheep had left their devastating mark and the latest ‘ crop ’ , the deer , finished off any saplings the sheep might have missed when they came down from the high tops in the winter . |
| 12 | A bird came down in the topmost branches of the tree in which the cat lay in wait . |
| 13 | There was a layer of grey-blue smoke in the room at about shoulder level , and a big wave in it , probably produced by me as I came in through the double doors of the back porch . |
| 14 | Back home , he dreamt , he filled the whole flat with buckets of earth , even filled soup dishes and the kettle and the wineglasses with soil , and spent hours watering them and moving them carefully around every day , carrying them from room to room so that they would be struck in turn by whatever sunshine came in through the different windows at different times of the day , making sure they were kept warm . |
| 15 | The tiny river sounds came in through the open hatches . |
| 16 | The smell of the flowers came in through the open windows of the bus . |
| 17 | Seve Ballesteros , who had shared the overnight lead on 67 , was making no further progress and was still five under par as he came in on the closing holes . |
| 18 | I had n't intended to speak on the external affairs section , but the discussion had widened so much that I came in with the attached remarks . |
| 19 | The remains of her whiteface make-up came off with the clotted badges of blood . |
| 20 | A number of players had been tried , but none came up to the subtle demands of the job . |
| 21 | But no , Bill then gave them another chance and another meeting , this time 120 skaters went along , and they came up with the following ramps : 20ft wide 6ft tall spine ramp , with the spine itself being 12 ft wide [ the other 8ft bit being platform ] , and another 12 ft wide mini ramp , plus street stuff like fun boxes etc . |
| 22 | For the record , Olivier 's 1978 elephant census came up with the following figures : |
| 23 | Americans came up with the Big Ideas for videocassette recorders , basic oxygen furnaces , and continuous casters for making steel , microwave ovens , automobile stamping machines , computerized machine tools , integrated circuits . |
| 24 | How could she be expected to cope with stupid computers that had n't the wit to understand a simple error , or calculators that came up with the wrong numbers ? |
| 25 | They came up with the Militant Clergy Association , which is understood to be moderate , and the Militant Clerics Society , which is described as left-wing fundamentalist . |
| 26 | For the first time Gould came up against the devastating effects of unlimited commercial exploitation . |
| 27 | Sounds came back to the watching eagles . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Mahmoud came out of the Mixed Tribunals and crossed the street towards him . |