Example sentences of "[noun] come [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Calvin and his successors came up with the dark doctrine of predestination to explain the fearful paradox of God 's love and his implacable wrath . |
| 32 | Richard came on to the terrace . |
| 33 | Grandson Richard came out of the shower-room with a towel around its waist . |
| 34 | ‘ Did you care when you walked out on me the day that you told me about the notes and the wine glass , and then Rebecca came back to the office ? |
| 35 | She was hanging up the jacket of her plum-coloured suit when Rebecca came in through the outer door . |
| 36 | The Bomber came down in the middle of morning service . ’ |
| 37 | This may sound harsh , but it seems to me that when we lost our empire our eyes came down from the horizon and looked at our feet . |
| 38 | Bordon came out for the second half in determined mood and soon Wilson made up for a number of misses by flicking in the third goal . |
| 39 | Several times Paul Guillaume came back to the house to have his portrait painted in a discreet , dark suit , starched collar and tie , jaunty trilby hat , a gloved hand languidly holding a cigarette and thinly parted lips which seem to be saying ‘ I am a man of exquisite taste ’ . |
| 40 | Speed came on towards the end , but did n't have chance to make much of an impact . |
| 41 | Erm , it was called the Marseillaise , erm , because the volunteers from Marseilles came up from the south , and entered Paris and they were singing , erm , this one . |
| 42 | One evening Rosslyn 's horse came up from the paddock as usual for his dinner , but instead of practically knocking her over like he normally did in his enthusiasm to get at the food , he stopped quietly at her side and put his head in her hands , saying non-verbally : ‘ I hurt ! ’ |
| 43 | In his first reign at Everton , Kendall 's fortunes changed when his side came back from the dead in a Milk Cup tie against Oxford back in 1984 . |
| 44 | The lads came up from the gill with buckets of water and stood a-row along the brink . |
| 45 | So as an aircraft came out of the engineering wing I gave it a test . |
| 46 | Angela 's mummy came back with the red mack . |
| 47 | We had a good field of fire all round in case the enemy came out of the sunken road or over the hedge . |
| 48 | ’ The car came up to the standard required . |
| 49 | David came up with the name Depeche Mode after seeing the french magazine of the same name . ’ |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | As each slightly shamefaced figure came up to the table , she peered intently at the face , muttered ‘ Sweet or dry ? ’ and then poured from one of her bottles as if administering Syrup of Figs or Cod Liver Oil to the infant sick . |
| 52 | He had reached the corner of his street and was searching in his pocket for his key , when a dark figure came out of the shadows and crossed the road towards him . |
| 53 | The more he considered all the aspects of the matter , the more Manville came around to the view that Turkey was the best possible choice of all . |
| 54 | A soldier came out of the old jailhouse , rifle held lightly in one hand , barrel pointed down . |
| 55 | A few weeks later Patrick Ashby came back from the dead and went home to inherit the family house and fortune . |
| 56 | An unexpected bonus came up from the Uncle Ben 's food team whereby , regardless of the convection temperature , lkg of long grain dry rice cooked with 2.5 litres of water in 20 minutes on full power . |
| 57 | Even more basic , though , was the pressure on a Celtic team playing for their dignity and self respect and who did so in such a convincing manner that all diagnoses of the final result came back to the same conundrum , where does the level of commitment shown against Rangers go when Liam Brady needs it most ? |
| 58 | Sure enough , a light came on in the middle floor of the wing . |
| 59 | There were no windows and only a trickle of light came in through the door behind him . |
| 60 | Again , the light level was subterranean , but there were no curtains so a fair amount of yellow light came in from the streetlamps outside . |