Example sentences of "they [verb] come [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similar complaints were heard in the Church of England about the condition of curates during the nineteenth century , a time when what pay they got came from the parish priest under whom they served or whose place they took in the parish while he lived elsewhere . |
| 2 | They agreed to come to the negotiating table and Robert Carnwath , with their counsel , drafted terms of agreement under which a settlement could be worked out . |
| 3 | Instead of having they had to come through the Dock Commission all of the men , they wanted so and so men for that boat , they used to come through to me . |
| 4 | Er they started coming in the Christmas oranges . |
| 5 | In fact , some people when they do come into the salon they say , ooh it 's like an operating theatre ! |
| 6 | But , they also go on headed note paper which says Oxford City Council Environmental Health Department and all the other stuff we put on the top , erm and it 's perfectly clear that they do come from the City Department upon your behalf . |
| 7 | Just at the moment other men are beginning to wonder if they 've come to the end of themselves , and if this is all that life has to offer , you discover a complete new range of abilities in yourself . |
| 8 | ‘ They 've come for the children 's parade , ’ he said softly , motioning her to a seat . |
| 9 | They 've come through the hole in time . |
| 10 | As soon as they had come through the hedge they saw Fiver . |
| 11 | He and Whelan would have had a better chance if they had come along the floor more often , even despite the permanent ten-man claret and blue wall . |
| 12 | They had come to the hotel to make love . |
| 13 | D'Alembord was an old friend who had dined frequently with Sharpe and Lucille since they had come to the Netherlands . |
| 14 | They had come to the Kingsbrook bridge and the beginning of the footpath to Sewingbury that followed the waters of the river . |
| 15 | But they had come to the door of her apartment and the moment was here and now , impossible to delay . |
| 16 | They had come to the stile at the end of the park . |
| 17 | Brian felt that they had come to the end of that day 's talk . |
| 18 | Since they had come to the house she had grown progressively calmer , more relaxed . |
| 19 | And they had come to the conclusion that it was not American slate cos there were no quarries in that time . |
| 20 | Then Joseph realized why they had come upon the city so completely by surprise ; it was the uncanny silence . |
| 21 | They had come from the Murray . |
| 22 | On the carpet by the tallboy were several red carnations , as fresh as they had come from the florist , and beside them , a shattered glass spill . |
| 23 | Someone stepped on a loose plank in the alley down which they had come from the bridge , and the timber squealed . |
| 24 | Originally they had come from the Dartmoor Pony Sale as weanlings the previous autumn and had spent the winter in a large stable . |
| 25 | They had come in the night and lit a fire under the stage . |
| 26 | Meredith waved goodbye and watched her set off back the way they had come in the direction of Pook 's stables . |
| 27 | However , the scoring information they contain comes in the form of lists of performers in a given entrée that , although valuable , are subject to certain limitations . |
| 28 | Parents sometimes feel embarrassed about describing their child 's problems in front of the child , so asking the child first why he or she thinks they have come to the clinic can open the discussion . |
| 29 | Scientists have been measuring the tide at Burnham-on-Sea , jotting down hours of sunlight , measuring the temperature to 14 decimal places and they have come to the conclusion that water levels could rise by a foot over the next 40 years . |
| 30 | There is an alternative to either of these courses which may be worth considering and that is that the Government should take the line that they have come to the conclusion that , while some restriction ought to be made in the infliction of the death penalty , the time has not yet come for its complete abolition . |