Example sentences of "[noun pl] come [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the rags came out the mass of frizz made Sally screech with horror but when Louise had teased it a little with her Mason Pearson brush and a long tail comb Sally saw that the usually severe schoolgirlish cut had been transformed into a mop of pretty curls . |
| 2 | From a thousand voices came back the response : ‘ He is risen indeed , Alleluia ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ The cars come down the bank there very quickly . |
| 4 | Just needs a string of natives bearing head bundles and brollies to come up the footpath . ’ |
| 5 | Coffin heard feet coming down the staircase from the upper floor of the house . |
| 6 | Since the objectives themselves are unreal and unclear , and since there are so many people at every level , multiple messages come down the line the whole time . |
| 7 | When the lights came up the girl looked at the audience , her mouth slowly opened and on her face was an expression of incredulity . |
| 8 | with maggots coming out the beak |
| 9 | erm And the cultivators coming down the logging roads , I agree entirely . |
| 10 | And she would take ye a wee walk round the cemetery , and I can remember pinchin' rhododendrons comin' out the gate . ’ |
| 11 | Large , hairy and gruff-voiced , with an ugly , grinning face , these bear-like creatures come down the chimney to the nursery . |
| 12 | Its high resistance to detonation allows high compression ratios to be used and thus offers potential for more power than petrol ; little or not particulate emissions come out the exhaust pipe and CO 2 production is relatively low . |
| 13 | They came down , they were altogether like that but at one point those red ones came down the ice altogether . |
| 14 | The combined use of the matting and beads , when misted with water , produces a spray effect as skiers come down the slope and the continuous surface is claimed to have safety advantages . |
| 15 | Will Bryan Robson , Roy Aitken and the boys come down the catwalk in gathered sleeves , button-down collars , funny geometric patches of colour , or even power-dressing shoulder pads ? |
| 16 | I 'll be back beneath it when the bird bans come off the rest of this stretch of coast on August 15th , unless the military gives me a very good reason not to in the interim . |