Example sentences of "we come [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We came up with the idea of attaching nose rings to all our players and getting someone in the kop to give a hefty tug when necessary . |
| 2 | Well we got to and there 's three weeks well when we came up at the beginning of May there was a notice on the main main twenty one which said |
| 3 | We came up behind the break and manoeuvred into position and sat on our boards . |
| 4 | We came on to the dirt road and a woman in a fluttering robe of pale pink organza walked towards us . |
| 5 | When we came out on the platform , he said , come round one day . |
| 6 | We came out on the waterfront into a gust of wind . |
| 7 | When we came out of the church we were told our King had passed away . |
| 8 | ‘ But , ’ Frick went on , ‘ if we are to take our rightful place in history , then it 's time we came out of the woodwork . ’ |
| 9 | When we came out of the trees , I saw the house from the other side . |
| 10 | When we came out of the Clerecia , after dipping hands in the holy water stoup and placing a drop on each other 's brows , as we had seen the novios and novias do ( the boy on entering a church would dip his hand in the water and transfer a drop to his fiancée 's fingertip so that they could cross themselves in unison ) , we would go into La Casa de las Conchas next to the Clerecia , with elaborate wrought-iron window-grilles and its tranquil courtyard , and sit there quietly for a while , thinking of the next poem , or of the one we were working on . |
| 11 | ‘ I simply had a drink after we came out of the pool ; surely you ca n't read anything into that ? ’ |
| 12 | But we also had the attendant holding the door for us as we came out of the changing room because the wind was threatening to tear it off its hinges , as well as relentlessly trying to move the deep end up to the shallow end . |
| 13 | We came out of the ditch , moving now with a lot more urgency . |
| 14 | We came out of the shop , turned left turned left there , and then turned right . |
| 15 | We had tea in a still half-deserted seaside town and when we came out of the cafe Edward produced from his pocket a tomato-shaped ketchup-holder which had taken Laura 's fancy and amused Edward with its outrageous farting noise . |
| 16 | After a long walk we came out between the dunes and were staring at the sea . |
| 17 | We were not very popular when we came down to the sitting-room . |
| 18 | I remember how cold it was when we came down in the winter . |
| 19 | Charity bets twenty five pounds and we came down in the car from Newmarket she had the she had the post out the light everything , now what 's what 's it going on ? |
| 20 | And we came down in the morning as safe as we would have been anywhere . |
| 21 | We came back with the ice creams and we sat there , just sitting there , all in a row . |
| 22 | We were in a shabby little hole in Paddington , and when we came back from the pub that night he went walking up and down that hotel room , sticking his chest out and saying , ‘ I 'm the sex queen of Bloomsbury . |
| 23 | Oh well I b , it were , we all had to be in the union anyway and so we used to er we used to go to the meetings a a a you know as youngsters and then when we came back from the Army we 'd got to the union meeting as well . |
| 24 | In my judgment , the election campaign started when we came back from the Christmas recess — Order . |
| 25 | Shortly before yesterday 's debate on the economy you told the House that in your opinion the general election campaign started when we came back from the Christmas recess . |
| 26 | So we came back in the dark , there were fifteen of us in th this jeep bouncing up and down so that was quite fun too . |
| 27 | er perhaps Tom himself was erm not really concentrating very much but I know when we came back after the Christmas Day , the Boxing Day that is , erm , Tom was quite oblivious as to what had gone on on the Chr on the Christmas Eve , so I remember we c we put our heads together and erm came to erm some arrangement as to who should be invited for this next tractor course and nothing was ever said so I expect the right people went after all but erm it 's funny how when he was |
| 28 | Kingsley Amis , who wrote an adventure for Bond as well as creating Jim Dixon , reflects aptly on the reasons for his : ‘ What happened was that we came in at the tail end of the literary tradition to the effect that no decent girl enjoys sex — only tarts were supposed to do that . |
| 29 | Tommaso appeared as we came in from the street , hamming it up just the way I remembered . |
| 30 | ‘ Ca n't we come up to the hill ? ’ asked someone . |