Example sentences of "they [verb] come [prep] [art] [noun sg] " 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 | Further evidence to suggest that events are important in depression according to their threatfulness rather than according to the amount of change they signify comes from a study by Tennant and Andrews ( 1978 ) . |
| 8 | And they 've come to a judgement on those issues and their judgement is that erm they s should support the principle of a western route . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They 've come through the hole in time . |
| 11 | As soon as they had come through the hedge they saw Fiver . |
| 12 | They had come on a sight-seeing visit and , of course , they had their cameras with them . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They had come into a gallery at the centre of which was a large glass case , round which the boys — apart from Khan and the Husayns — were crowded . |
| 15 | It was n't until they had come to a halt that she had felt able to raise her eyes from the floor and look at the two men standing by the alter rail . |
| 16 | ‘ You can open your eyes now , ’ the Bookman told him when they had come to a stop . |
| 17 | They had come to a bridge . |
| 18 | They had come to the hotel to make love . |
| 19 | But they had come to the door of her apartment and the moment was here and now , impossible to delay . |
| 20 | They had come to the stile at the end of the park . |
| 21 | Brian felt that they had come to the end of that day 's talk . |
| 22 | Since they had come to the house she had grown progressively calmer , more relaxed . |
| 23 | And they had come to the conclusion that it was not American slate cos there were no quarries in that time . |
| 24 | They did n't often have a chance to leave the pub together , but this afternoon she was determined to have a family outing , so as soon as the dinner-things were washed up , they had come for a walk to the Island Gardens . |
| 25 | Then Joseph realized why they had come upon the city so completely by surprise ; it was the uncanny silence . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Someone stepped on a loose plank in the alley down which they had come from the bridge , and the timber squealed . |
| 28 | Nutty realised afterwards that they had come within a hairs-breadth of total disaster . |
| 29 | They had come in the night and lit a fire under the stage . |
| 30 | Meredith waved goodbye and watched her set off back the way they had come in the direction of Pook 's stables . |