Example sentences of "[prep] come [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1867 , nearly twenty years after coming to the throne of Austria , Francis Joseph was crowned here by that same Count Andrássy who , in the aftermath of 1848 , he had sentenced to death . |
| 2 | Something permanent had clearly been created in Virginia and , shortly after coming to the throne in 1625 , Charles I did what he could to stabilize the situation by declaring it a royal colony and taking into his own hands the power to appoint the governor . |
| 3 | Although throughout the crisis Alexander III had expressed his contempt for any concessions to appease the government 's critics , for some two months after coming to the throne he hesitated to reverse official policy . |
| 4 | When he 'd first arrived he had lived in a succession of bedsitting rooms on the west side , for which he had been charged extortionate rents by landlords who he never met ; the third night after coming to The Bar for the first time he had slept with someone who knew of someone who had a spare room at a much more reasonable price , and Boy had moved in . |
| 5 | Music mogul Richard Branson was increasingly disillusioned with his company 's rating in the eyes of the City after coming to the market in 1985 . |
| 6 | Forgotten-man Pavel emerges from the shadows for only his second League appearance for the Geordies in 13 months and just three weeks after coming off the transfer list . |
| 7 | It is a good idea to wait for one to three months , after coming off the Pill , to see what effect this has — for some women , the Pill itself is the unsuspected source of vague health problems , so the anti- Candida diet may be unnecessary . |
| 8 | But officials admit some livestock has simply disappear after coming into the country . |
| 9 | Well the parrot he sort of came in the Boar War he did he sort of flitted on my shoulder and I 've been lumbered with him ever since and nobody seems to want him . |
| 10 | The third report I know of came from the Johannesburg Sunday Times of 14 February , 1982 , and was sent to me by a medical colleague . |
| 11 | In November 1558 , she was succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth , who within a few months of coming to the throne had authorized a new religious settlement which once again left the country officially Protestant . |
| 12 | But , within a couple of months of coming to the throne , Siraj-ud-Daula marched on Calcutta , seized and plundered it after a few days of frantic but ill-prepared resistance , and allowed the few British survivors of the seige to be locked up in the prison of the fortress for the night . |
| 13 | Scottish Members of Parliament has been reduced to the nefarious nine , and now that the Secretary of State for Scotland and virtually every one of that nefarious nine trembles on the edge of the abyss of a total political wipeout in Scotland , will the Government finally see the sense of coming to the negotiating table and talking about Scottish government ? |
| 14 | The impropriety of coming to the court when political capital was sought to be made could not be overstressed . |
| 15 | Other strands , particularly the Evangelical , have so concentrated on ‘ the Lord Jesus ’ in their teaching and worship that they have virtually made an idol of the flesh of Christ instead of coming to the Father through him . |
| 16 | Yes I just wanted to say that , can I just say that within about three days of coming off the drug , all my symptoms of feeling violent , murderous , suicidal completely disappeared and they 've never come back since , and all I 've had since then is a dose of vitamin B six every day . |
| 17 | Yeah , she was just sort of coming down the stairs yeah it 's alright , you know , had a word with her |
| 18 | Rather like the children we were discussing earlier in this chapter it is possible to meet elderly people who have achieved a serenity of understanding and/or faith that supports them utterly as they develop the skill of coming towards the end of their life . |
| 19 | I think that the hon. Gentleman will know what I mean when I say that in the context of coming towards the end of a particular available time , whether it is the time for talks or the time for a general election , there is reluctance among certain parties — and I make this remark generally — to turn their cards face upwards if there is any danger that other people will not have turned their cards face upwards by the time the whistle blows . |
| 20 | Instead of coming under the floor ? |
| 21 | Whatever the ups and downs of life in the Colonel 's household , I was spared the ordeal of coming under the fire of my old friends . |
| 22 | It was probably difficult for Sheila to take the step of coming into the CAB with the very sensitive subject of homosexuality that for all she knows may be taboo at the bureaux . |
| 23 | Perhaps there was some amount of crafty deception here , as he explained to the National Defence Association : ‘ By not insisting on military drill we catch a lot of boys who would otherwise have no idea of coming into the education that we are trying to give . ’ |
| 24 | He had a confused impression of coming into the dining room while the man was there and hearing him rather grudgingly assess the value of the glass cabinet . |
| 25 | Professor John Vincent in a long assessment of Gladstone observes " He was appalled by frivolity , and frivolity was appalled by him … " something in the tone of his voice and his way of coming into the room that is not aristocratic . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've no intention of coming into the palazzo at this time of night . ’ |
| 27 | Valentin Mesyats , the first secretary of the CPSU committee in Moscow oblast ( region ) , said that the platform ignored the fact that besides the CPSU no other force was " capable of uniting the people , capable of coming through the difficulty of this transitional period and bringing the country out of the crisis " . |
| 28 | This will have the advantage of coming at the beginning of a new financial year . |
| 29 | ‘ We 'd dreamt of coming near the mountains and the sea and were out for a drive one Sunday afternoon with that idea in the back of our minds . |
| 30 | The Antarctic meteorite ( ALHA8 1005 ) , which is suspected of coming from the Moon , was discovered far to the west of the main meteorite concentrations in the Allan Hills region . |