Example sentences of "[adv] come [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there 's no doubt this activity stood Alec in good stead when he finally came across the truly Unknown . |
| 2 | The results of the study of early Anglo-Saxon pottery have yet hardly come near the commercially based model envisaged by Myres , with specialists producing for a consumer market ; social explanations appear to be more appropriate for similarities between vessels , and their movement . |
| 3 | It seems probable that supplies of wire also came from the long demolished Cambridge wire works a few miles away on the River Cam , close to the old road to Dursley . |
| 4 | As young romances often come from the most unlikely places , just bide your time and wait and see what turns up ! |
| 5 | I now come to the most shameful escapades committed — to which I was a party . |
| 6 | It may well have shocked listeners in 1957 , but it now comes as the most delightful interlude — genuine , not mocking , in its evocations . |
| 7 | Nor could Creggan see that with that return of some sense of a spirit of life that can never die there came to the nearly lifeless wings of the close-caged Minch a sudden struggle and slight flutter of purpose — not much , but enough to make the Man look down in surprise and tighten his grip on the carrier cage . |
| 8 | In the end , however , they and everyone else came to the less romantic conclusion that these objects were rotating neutron stars . |
| 9 | In the end , however , they and everyone else came to the less romantic conclusion that these objects , which were given the name pulsars , were in fact rotating neutron stars that were emitting pulses of radio waves because of a complicated interaction between their magnetic fields and surrounding matter . |