Example sentences of "they come [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They came towards the seated group cautiously but without hesitation — almost as if their entrance had been prearranged . |
| 2 | When they came up the grassy track that led to the headland , out of the wood that clothed the side of the valley where the village was , the girl was delighted and her mother relieved that she liked it . |
| 3 | As they came down the sloping road to the harbour they could see the ferry just coming in to dock . |
| 4 | They came for the first lot for nine months , then they went back . |
| 5 | Fellow aviculturalists ‘ do n't call them twitchers , it 's the ultimate insult , ’ said Yvonne , Harry 's daughter Robin Pickering and Peter Banks from Stanhope were called in , and after much research and consultation they came to the extraordinary conclusion that this was a Glaucous Macaw . |
| 6 | By the time they came to the sharp bend at Borlick they had caught up with the McCulloch family , old Donald limping and muttering to himself , Donald hand in hand with Jean , Mary and her friend big Mary striding on ahead , their arms pulled down by heavy baskets of pies and eggs . |
| 7 | Jim Lenehan , assistant manager at the Sheikh 's Kildangan Stud , confirmed that Royal Gait suffered a massive heart attack , and added : ‘ The sad part is that Graham said he had felt as good as ever as they came to the final flight . ’ |
| 8 | When at last they came to the lower end of Spring Street , Agnes stopped and , looking from one to the other , she said , ‘ This is where I live ; I 'll be all right now . |
| 9 | They came to the second door . |
| 10 | Lead on said her father , and he lead the way till they came to the flowing river . |
| 11 | Dozens of times they 'd gone in single file when they came to the narrow place , made narrow by a growth of gorse . |
| 12 | Beyond the long line of windows , past the Conservatory and the Laburnum Walk , they came to the winter-bound Pleasure Garden where yellow jasmine crawled over a tree stump , hamamelis , the wych-hazel shrub , thrust out golden hedgehog flowers along its leafless branches , and the stream coming from the kitchen garden — a winter river now — hurried into the culvert that carried it on into the baby lake in the field outside the Pleasure Garden . |
| 13 | Jitka turned and put her fingers to her lips as they came to the main bedroom and they tiptoed passed . |
| 14 | The expedition then sailed out into the Pacific until , 600 miles from the mainland , they came to the lonely archipelago of the Galapagos . |
| 15 | He 'd thought he 'd die himself , he said when they came to the white iron gate , he 'd thought he 'd die when he 'd heard the woman 's scream , sharp as a blade above the whine of the wind and the rain . |
| 16 | There was a catch in her voice and he took her arm as they came to the magnificent front of the cathedral . |
| 17 | At last they came to the topmost ridge of the mountain , and there lay a great field of cloud ahead of them . |
| 18 | Erm some additional sidings , mills over here , some additional sidings were put in , in the early part of this century , and they came off the this track erm just this side of on the left hand side of the level crossing , erm and went er up to a dead end er just along in the right hand side , er over now towards where factory is . |
| 19 | THE ROAD was hidden slightly at the bend , behind the overhang of the rowan trees and they came across the barred gate a little too quickly , crossing the bridge before realising that it was now behind . |
| 20 | Within a few yards of the bank on which they had spent the uneasy night they came across the first sign of man . |
| 21 | They came via the narrow snicket leading past the Alexandra Hotel into Great Horton Road . |
| 22 | They came into the upper room . |
| 23 | She wondered what her father and brothers were doing at that moment , and pictured Niall and Roger riding in through the castle gate with more stories of escapades , cattle raids , skirmishes , pranks and hunting expeditions ; and so vividly could she imagine them that it seemed that she actually heard their voices , saw their red-cheeked smiles , and smelt the leather of their boots and the steam from their bodies when they came into the big kitchen at the end of a day . |
| 24 | Then , as they came inside the final furlong , Piggott got the break he needed . |
| 25 | As for the clothes , money and jewellery sported by many locals , they came from the gruesome supply of drowned bodies that were washed ashore each morning on the high tide . |
| 26 | They came from the same country . |
| 27 | These characteristics very considerably , but similar patterns can be found in several different churches and one can be fairly confident they came from the same workshop . |
| 28 | Denis wondered sometimes if they came from the same father and mother . |
| 29 | I er I did n't buy them and he sent us three boxes and they came from the same warehouse . |
| 30 | Although there is no precise information about the provenance of all of these finds , it is reasonable to assume that they came from the original excavation of the ‘ villa ’ or from adjacent sites . |