Example sentences of "[noun] come [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Act amended the 1944 legislation which had divided schooling at age 11 between primary and secondary , by allowing the break to come between the ages of 10 and 12 , to cover the development of middle schools . |
| 2 | Well I was thinking of things like witchcraft , which would seem a rather a luxury fringe subject , but some of the most fascinating research that 's been done recently in my period of early modern history has been showing how witchcraft erm was the second most important erm crime to come before the courts apart from theft in , in my period , and in exploring why witchcraft had this appeal you 're learning much more about the age . |
| 3 | Eventually a reply came from the Islands ' Director of Administration and Legal Services , Rowan McCallum . |
| 4 | Its engine stopped , the door slid open and a courier-woman in high heels came down the steps and put up an umbrella . |
| 5 | It was almost time for Compline when Cadfael came from the gardens after his last round of the evening , and saw horsemen riding in at the gate . |
| 6 | Also , the boat was so small that when I rowed , the waves came over the sides of the boat . |
| 7 | At one and the same instant the audience burst into a thundering shout ; the orchestra pealed forth the strains of the Hallelujah Chorus ; the wheels of the great Ellis engine in Machinery Hall commenced to revolve ; the electric fountains in the lagoon threw their torrents towards the sky ; a flood of water gushed from the McMonnies Lake and rolled back again into the basin ; the thunder of artillery came from the vessels in the lake ; the chimes in Manufacturers Hall and on the German building rang out a merry peal , and overhead , the flags at the top of the poles in front of the platform fell apart and revealed the gilded models of the ships in which Columbus first sailed to American shores . |
| 8 | Voices came from the battlements , and a twinkle of steel . |
| 9 | One witness said : ‘ The plane had already landed , but the wind came under the wings and lifted it back into the air . |
| 10 | The shape of a vardo loomed in the twilight and the whinny of a horse came from the trees . |
| 11 | The mounting violence came as the parents of Tim Parry , the 12-year-old victim of the IRA 's Warrington bombing , made the agonising decision to switch off his life support machine . |
| 12 | 47% of actuality contributions on all programmes were made by ministers and Opposition front-bench spokespersons and 53% came from the back-benches . |
| 13 | One or two anxieties came with the memories . |
| 14 | The evening light came through the skylights high overhead , glossing the scurfy backs , the sores , the scabby manes , and a soft echo came back from the walls of the vast , bare concrete building of animal content , feeding . |
| 15 | Most of the light came from the openings onto the balcony . |
| 16 | Not only that , but the way the light came around the edges and through the door would enable you to perceive clearly and in three dimensions what was happening on the other side of the door ! |
| 17 | As the engine caught again Travis came through the curtains , his face pale and tense . |
| 18 | The strongest opposition came from the Communists ( PCF ) and their youth wing , the Jeunesse Communiste . |
| 19 | The only problem was the stitch each side of the tucked stitch came off the needles at the same time . |
| 20 | She heard the sound of voices coming up the stairs . |
| 21 | The front walkway was deserted , though he could hear the murmur of voices coming from the pigsties past the trees and bushes . |
| 22 | Although subsequently in the 1910s and early 1920s , she furthered her experiments with abstraction in watercolour and oil , examples of which include the ‘ Evening Star ’ series ( 1917 ) and ‘ Blue and Green Music ’ ( 1919 ) , she also made paintings that were decidedly realistic in character , like ‘ Plums ’ ( 1920 ) , or semi-abstract , like ‘ Light Coming on the Plains II ’ ( 1917 ) . |
| 23 | They had blue cushions on them , but I thought they 'd register better just white , so I glanced round the paper adding carious different coloured touches — light on dark and dark on light — to give the impression of light coming through the leaves . |
| 24 | During our stay we were awakened not only by the cocks , but on several occasions by piercing screams coming from the rice-paddies behind us , which would continue for some time before abruptly stopping . |
| 25 | And cycle it certainly is : area tutors and in-bureau tutors come from the ranks of the advice workers . |
| 26 | This beautiful bob comes from The Collections Hair Club |
| 27 | This is probably true ; my main concern is that no harm comes to The Boys . ’ |
| 28 | The income of solicitors and barristers in private practice comes from the fees paid by clients . |
| 29 | One of the most illuminating insights into the character of Frederick Barbarossa comes from the descriptions of him in the Fourth Book of Bishop Otto von Freising and from Rahewin , his twelfth-century biographer . |
| 30 | Political pressure for these latter proposals came from the police themselves , who now formed a strong lobby for increased state regulation . |