Example sentences of "[vb past] come [adv prt] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one of the most touching passages , he recalled coming up to America on his emigrant ship in 1955 , his father and brother and he standing by the rail , feeling this sense of opportunity , this relief that the bad times were over , that a new world was out there waiting to be conquered . |
| 2 | It never stopped raining , and the plague began to come back into London . |
| 3 | ‘ Do you remember that old lady who kept coming in for Roald Dahl , saying he was a woman ? ’ sobbed Denise . |
| 4 | The pepper pot analogy kept coming back to Raymond Cusick as he began sketching his ideas down onto paper . |
| 5 | And er on the other hand you can get in your car and you can get down to suddenly find they 've got the the road up or E G as we did coming down to York today there 's driving his his er surface lifter down the road and and er you 're stuck in a traffic jam for a wee while er |
| 6 | To get experience in obstetrics and gynaecology for vocational training I had to come back to London . |
| 7 | He remembered that Sunday morning in '39 , when Wilf Bullingham , the local amateur photographer , had come around at Bert 's request . |
| 8 | Even when Liz had come over for Mr Harding 's funeral , which had taken place just over a year ago , Laura had n't felt able to explain all of the difficulties she had faced . |
| 9 | The prince had come over to London to be married — from the house of Anna 's sister who was settled there — he hated every minute of it . |
| 10 | one of Mrs Tibbs 's boarders , ‘ an Irishman recently imported ’ who was ‘ in a perfectly wild state ; and had come over to England to be an apothecary , a clerk in a government office , an actor , a reporter , or anything else that turned up — he was not particular ’ . |
| 11 | Janina 's father was a Polish Jew who had come over to Britain to fight in the war . |
| 12 | George Herbert was a member of a family which had come over with William the Conqueror and had a long tradition of service to the Crown . |
| 13 | The Scots had come over from Ireland and colonised most of Galloway , Kintyre and Arran . |
| 14 | The task of of carving through the English countryside was carried out by unskilled navvies , many of whom had come over from Ireland to earn a living . |
| 15 | At the end of the match Comte Ghislain de Vogüé of Moët et Chandon , who had come over from France especially for the match and the luncheon that preceded it ; and Viscountess Marchwood , wife of the managing director of Moët et Chandon UK , presented the Moët et Chandon prizes , and Miss Liz Kershaw the publisher of Harpers & Queen presented the Harpers & Queen trophy . |
| 16 | Falling under the spell of an older , flamboyantly dressed and well-educated kinsman , Esme Stuart , who had come over from France , he was suspected of dangerously Papist leanings and of some unnatural sexual habits . |
| 17 | The Kleibers had come over from Germany some years before the war , and settled in Poplar . |
| 18 | Our older son had come over from San Francisco with his wife and the three children , so they were all here . |
| 19 | On 5 June one of two Iranian F-4s that had come over from Bushehr , looking for another kill off the Saudi coast , was shot down by the Saudis ' more advanced F-15s , armed with the Raytheon Sparrow missile and guided on to their targets by AWACS surveillance craft . |
| 20 | I had already employed an attendant , Toril , who had come over from Norway at the end of July to help me during and after my move . |
| 21 | Everyone was wandering around the house getting everything ready for my uncle who had come over from Nigeria . |
| 22 | She had come on to Benedict 's from an interview with her bank manager . |
| 23 | She had come up to Jasper , who caught her wrist in his bony grip , and they ran together up towards the Underground . |
| 24 | How strange that from all the many places to which she might have been drafted , chance had come up with Ardneavie . |
| 25 | The next day or the day after perhaps , when they had talked a lot about the commune project , Mary had come up with Bella 's name . |
| 26 | He too , was proud and as he looked round the crowded pews of St Christopher 's in Englefield , New Jersey , he thought of what a good turn-out it was considering that so many of them had come up from New York . |
| 27 | He was a ‘ blackshirt ’ ( fascist ) and was one of fifty who had come up from London to act as stewards . |
| 28 | Ibn Fayoud looked at the place settings , noting that the few racing contacts he had been obliged to invite had sensibly been distributed among the more amusing people who had come up from London . |
| 29 | You , th cos the railway men used to make the path , cos the terrific amount of railway men used to work down at and most of our round consisted of railway people and most of them had come up from Wales and places like that . |
| 30 | And in the mid-afternoon , only a few hours after they had arrived back at the apartment , an urgent message had come through for Ross by fax . |