Example sentences of "[adv] come [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | SHOULD the worst come to the worst , John and Norma Major will at least be able to make a dignified departure from Downing Street . |
| 2 | Dr G. Hefter and Dr P. M. May have tried wittily to come to the rescue , but by misinterpreting the ‘ obituary ’ ( Chem . |
| 3 | ‘ In approaching the wife 's defence I have regretfully come to the conclusion that the judge has overlooked two critical points of distinction between her case and that of the husband . |
| 4 | I 've only come for the afternoon because Sheila 's off sick . |
| 5 | The initiative for bodies of this sort has not only come from the centre . |
| 6 | The realization that these three systems can interact , and the identification of the mechanisms involved , has only come within the past few years . |
| 7 | ‘ You 'd better come to the flat with me for a start , as soon as the warrant arrives . |
| 8 | His manner was that of a man resigned to repeated interruptions : ‘ I suppose this is about Mr Francis ; you 'd better come into the office . ’ |
| 9 | Though before she could get in with a quick plea for an interview , Vendelin Gajdusek revealed that he had not for a moment forgotten the way in which the Dobermann had attached himself to her ankle , by decreeing , ‘ You 'd better come into the house and have some antiseptic put on that wound . ’ |
| 10 | The uncle had apparently come to the school gates at the end of school and when the girl was a little way on her way home had caught up with her and taken her to his house . |
| 11 | Those 35 were good enough to come through the pre-qualifying system . |
| 12 | Under ordinary circumstances , Nurse Goodman would probably not have given permission but ‘ the Major ’ , as he had become known , was such a mystery that she was glad to feel that at least somebody knew of his fate and cared enough to come to the hospital to see how he was getting on . |
| 13 | ‘ Everything was just perfect , ’ he said , ‘ but when one is fortunate enough to come to the Chewton Glen , it has to be right … the standard is so high . |
| 14 | He only came to the Sahara to get a sun-tan and lose weight , so that he can put on his dark glasses and show himself off in the bars back home . ’ |
| 15 | The case of the chartered accountant who has just been found guilty of a serious reckless driving offence only came to the Institute 's attention by chance , when an Investigation Committee member heard about it on the radio . |
| 16 | He only came to the forefront as ‘ governer and ruler of the kingdom ’ , to use Walsingham 's words , ’ after the Good Parliament of 1376 . |
| 17 | Opals were totally unknown to the early civilizations of the Old World and only came to the knowledge of the Mediterranean peoples as an outcome of Roman military expansion into the Balkans . |
| 18 | The Official Solicitor answered the call of the court within minutes and , although this application only came to the notice of the court officials at 1.30 p.m. it has come on for hearing just before 2 p.m. and now at 2.18 p.m . |
| 19 | As it turned out , he only came for the funeral . ’ |
| 20 | But she only came on the scene recently ; there were others . |
| 21 | I only came across the 1936 front page because it was hanging framed on the right-hand wall of old Pierre Gemayel 's office when I went to talk to him in the summer of 1982 in east Beirut . |
| 22 | Section 8 only came into the argument because it was contended on behalf of Mrs. Gillick that , but for section 8 , no minor could ever consent to medical treatment and that section 8 was designed only to lower the age of consent to such treatment from 18 to 16 : see [ 1986 ] A.C. 112 , 123 , per Parker L.J. , and at p. 144D , per Fox L.J . |
| 23 | This china lived in the sideboard in the dining-room and only came into the kitchen to be warmed before a meal and washed up afterwards . |
| 24 | I only came into the room and I switched it on and i there were quite a lot of recriminations with people who |
| 25 | Aye , they only came in the su they only came up here in the summer . |
| 26 | They only came in the last winter of the war , just a few months . |
| 27 | The 1.5 per cent pay rise for the public sector was announced by Mr Lamont in his autumn statement , but the details only came from the pay review bodies yesterday . |
| 28 | The next morning , after I had drunk some coffee and sat for an hour with the first suggestions of boredom stirring inside me , the Feldwebel who had enjoyed the ride in the Mercedes so much came to the door . |
| 29 | ‘ On the last tour I basically played the same thing every night and I suddenly came to the realisation that I was n't progressing as much as I should . |
| 30 | On the last tour I basically played the same thing every night and I suddenly came to the realisation that I was n't progressing as much as I should |