Example sentences of "they come [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He asked the senior players if they 'd seen anything as they came away from the dressing-room and they said they had n't . |
| 2 | Now they came again to the forefront of her mind . |
| 3 | They came partly for the singing , the people . |
| 4 | They came fast through the smoke : three men in black clingsuits , breathing masks hiding their features , their heads jerking from side to side , their guns searching . |
| 5 | Schooldays and the void they both felt when the boys went off to boarding school , followed by the joy unconfined when they came home at the end of term . |
| 6 | They came home from the sortie on Sunday knowing that the next time they sit down to pick an Under-25 international side they will be looking for three new skips . |
| 7 | Possibly it was only after they came together under the aegis of Apollinaire , one of the greatest artistic impresarios of his age , that they felt the attraction towards each other that was to result in the most unusual and intensive collaboration in the history of art . |
| 8 | They came together near the hamlet of Senlac , on the most convenient road from Pevensey to London . |
| 9 | Just as they came late in the century to promote travel facilities actively , so the railway companies were slow to issue promotional travel literature . |
| 10 | And they came close to the wall of flint where Wynne-Jones waited , breathless with anticipation . |
| 11 | Through a string of three rooms they came close to the Ballroom ; only an ante-room divided them from it . |
| 12 | They covered that without difficulty before dark , their only delay a meeting-up with their late fellow-invaders , the Armstrongs , whom they came across at the Kershopefoot crossing of Liddel Water , driving an even larger drove of cattle from Gilsland than the main body had collected , and taking a more northerly course home . |
| 13 | In a perverse way , losing their best player lifted the ‘ Stiffs ’ and they came more into the game , although Micky Deere and Terry Wade were both booked for negative play . |
| 14 | Well , Christine takes him up there if they come here for the weekend . |
| 15 | and actually you know this Time Chemicals , they , they deliver you know , they come here with the stuff . |
| 16 | Bertram and Clarence would be classed as visitors as they come lawfully onto the land . |
| 17 | Distant objects are small and get larger when they come closer to the camera . |
| 18 | Had they come together with the antiques in the dining room from a larger house , a family home ? |
| 19 | Signs to the Waterfalls abound , all pointing to the usual entrance which is a short distance along the Thornton road from the centre of the village , passing over both streams on the way ; they come together under the railway viaduct alongside . |
| 20 | ‘ They are not in the same cells , but they come together in the trucks going to court and in the exercise yard where they are often subject to physical and sexual abuse , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Many mothers continue to work part-time even when their children start school , so they can be there when they come home in the afternoon and so holiday childcare arrangements are a little easier . |