Example sentences of "[vb past] come [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing political in this , and , when the Young Liberals branch had closed down , they all started coming to the YCs . |
| 2 | A couple of months later he did come to the Hammersmith Odeon with Bernie and me to see them play I could seethe relief on his face when he realised they really were a band . |
| 3 | Anti-English slanders they were held to be by the genteel Victorian travellers who continued to come to the Pyrenees . |
| 4 | He felt that , on the whole , we should aim for people who had come off the BBC training course , who were n't yet ready to tackle major dramas , but who needed to cut their teeth on something demanding . |
| 5 | They had brought tales with them from England of witchcraft and the King 's concern ; an Essex man who had come with the Hopewell on the return voyage recalled how when he was a child , a pricker was calling on all the households of the nearby villages to discover the sources of a murrain on the flocks . |
| 6 | I recognized him as the man with only three fingers on his left hand — the one who had come to the Admiral Benbow ! |
| 7 | One of the corpses was that of a local youth , the other that of an English girl , Gail Benson , who had come to the West Indies as the slavish lover of an American Negro , Hakim Jamal , ‘ God ’ to his friends , who was eventually to be shot dead in Boston . |
| 8 | David had come to the United States as a headliner . |
| 9 | D'Alembord was an old friend who had dined frequently with Sharpe and Lucille since they had come to the Netherlands . |
| 10 | Some 200 Russian Jews had come to the Netherlands from Israel via Hungary in mid-1991 and sought asylum on the grounds that they had been discriminated against when they arrived in Israel from the Soviet Union . |
| 11 | But had it not been to rid herself of her aura of wealth and privilege which had created her feeling that she was the darling of the gods — although the same gods knew how brutally they had treated her — that she had come to the East End to work , and to live as though she really needed to , and to survive on the pittance which she had earned , without bolting back again to luxury and comfort ? |
| 12 | He had bought a copy of The Times before he had come to The Randolph that morning , but hitherto had not even glanced at the headlines . |
| 13 | Urquhart had come to the Nowaks ' house , Blanche thought , for the same purpose as her — an illegal search for clues about Marek 's past activities . |
| 14 | He had come to the Borinage as his parents ' representative , dressed correctly in the approved manner , his accents refined , and ‘ showed in his appearance all the characteristics of Dutch cleanliness . ’ |
| 15 | They had come to the Kingsbrook bridge and the beginning of the footpath to Sewingbury that followed the waters of the river . |
| 16 | Lewis seemed to be taking it as a personal insult that the family had come to the Hebrides for their summer holiday . |
| 17 | In my job , I had expected the sick and the dying to trust God , and I had come to the Sahara hoping to discover whether I myself would keep the faith in adverse circumstances . |
| 18 | We had come across the Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway about to enjoy a ‘ Tank Engine ’ weekend of some kind . |
| 19 | When Morse , himself looking far from serene , had come into The Randolph and demanded to see Messrs Aldrich and Brown immediately , he had resolutely avoided her eyes , appearing to have no wish to rekindle the brief moments of intimacy which had occurred in the morning 's early hours . |
| 20 | The German Foreign Ministry called for a fairer distribution of the burden of aid to the CIS , citing figures produced by the European Commission which showed that about 75 per cent of all aid to the Soviet Union since September 1990 had come from the EC and 57 per cent from Germany alone ( the figure included humanitarian aid , credits and special payments for troop withdrawal made by Germany ) . |
| 21 | She had come from the BBC . |
| 22 | It had come from the London Group of members , but the Operations Department have not yet come to a decision on this . |
| 23 | The solution was provided by Mark Cole , a brilliant climber and naturalist who had come from the UK with us . |
| 24 | Additionally , William Sherard had sent seeds from Rome and others had come from the Oxford Garden and from Scotland . |
| 25 | They had come from the Murray . |
| 26 | There were other gifts , too : new oak doors , given by Sir Geoffry Christie-Miller , adorned the side entrance ; cathode-ray oscilloscopes had been donated by Ferranti Ltd. and Professor Williams ( who had recently received the Hughes medal of the Royal Society ) ; £1 , 000 had come from the Sir Alan Sykes Trust towards the cost of the Sixth Form rooms ; and Mr. Charles Royle , MP and Old Stopfordian , and Mr. David Blank , Old Stopfordian and a recently co-opted Governor , were arranging to provide £100 to endow a Sixth Form Essay Prize in memory of the former 's father , a Governor from January 1923 until his death the previous November . |
| 27 | Most of the refugees had come from the Kurgan-Tyube region , the scene of bitter fighting between pro- and anti-government forces . |
| 28 | The challenge , of course , had come from the CEGB . |
| 29 | Originally they had come from the Dartmoor Pony Sale as weanlings the previous autumn and had spent the winter in a large stable . |
| 30 | Marietta of Patras had come from the Morea in the train of Helen Paleologa , wife of John , King of Cyprus . |