Example sentences of "[n mass] came [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 One rather novel feature , fitted by David Fenton just after the aircraft came onto the UK register , is a Rockwell wing-leveller system which is linked to the turn & slip and the VOR .
2 47% of actuality contributions on all programmes were made by ministers and Opposition front-bench spokespersons and 53% came from the back-benches .
3 So of course I went away down to the Station and the folk came off the Edinburgh train and that , and this gentleman and lady were left and of course I approached them , I says , by any chance , I says , are you Professor .
4 The bream came to the lone anglers swim first and he blanked too .
5 Both flounder came from the Evening Hill shore mark to ragworm fished in just six feet of water on a size 2 hook to 15 lb line .
6 The Eel came round the bushes , saw him and cried his triumph .
7 In Palace 's early days , and at least until the end of the 1920s , almost all the playing staff came from the North of England or the Midlands but Bateman was a popular and welcome exception .
8 Our training staff came from the 3rd Squadron , which had returned from the war in Chad three months before .
9 You could tell that the real reason people came into the shop was to hang out .
10 The snow sparkled in the sunshine outside the window and nobody really minded much when people came into the room and said ‘ Happy Christmas ’ .
11 I hung around deciding what to do and then some people came off the boat .
12 It expanded from 47,000 people in 1841 to 102,000 in 1901 and in 1860 nearly 150,000 people came to the town by excursion train in two successive days .
13 And last night , we sang the top ten , in the Songs of Praise service , and it was a surprising how many extra people came to the church , as a result of that .
14 When people came to the doors they stood on the step talking and looking over at our side of the street .
15 The opening ceremony was managed for us by Cosmo PR in Tokyo and a specially selected audience of 120 people came to the event including around 70 customers from the four business areas represented at KITEC .
16 On Saturday , 9th July , over 1,000 people came to the Families Day at Elderslie .
17 So these people that had little private shops in them days did well because when the people came to the lodges it all the commodities were bought to as well as them .
18 on some of their things and in fact two of their people came to the intellectual property thing
19 a transcription you remember last year , we had about one week on phonetics , and John , some people came to the John talk , where we did n't really talk about phonetics script there .
20 People came in the summer to walk and to sail and , if development plans succeeded and the roads could be kept clear , they 'd soon be coming in the winter to ski .
21 The Ephraim Hallam Charity promised £18,500 , and a further £4,000 was donated while the School was being built ; £2,000 came from the Brownell Charity ; Mr. G. H. Norris , a Governor and Old Boy gave £1,000 .
22 After what could only be described as a very spirited fight a small but brilliantly coloured koi of about 7lb came to the net and I remember looking at it with disbelief that such a small fish could have pulled so hard .
23 That year , total sales for the company were in the region of £300,000 , of which £250,000 came from the shops .
24 In the very early years , people were really exploring ; then came the early botanists who identified what they saw and made lists ; later came the ecologists who related plants to their environment ; by the 1980s conservation of the flora came to the fore .
25 In 1982 roughly half of Italy 's gas consumption was domestically produced , 18% came from the Netherlands and 32% from the USSR .
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