Example sentences of "[was/were] come [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Largely due to Bernard , they were to come to the forefront of politics and to find a place within the papal court . |
| 2 | If someone very close ( a member of your family , for instance ) were to come into the room while you were in that state , you would be aware of it but you probably would not move or do anything about it because it felt ‘ right ’ . |
| 3 | The rewards of this parliamentary victory were to come with the defeat of the French armies in 1870 , but at the time opponents of the Emperor saw only a means of forcing him further along the path of change . |
| 4 | Morel 's even-handed appeal to ‘ artisans ’ and ‘ industrialists , quickly gave way to the belief that ‘ if any radical changes were to come in the system of intercourse between states … the driving force must come from the organisations of labour . ’ |
| 5 | And when they were come into the house , they saw the young child with Mary his mother , and fell down and worshipped him ; and when they had opened their treasures , they presented unto him gifts : gold and frankincense and myrrh . |
| 6 | The doughs were come through the machine cut into sizes certain weights moulded and the men put them in tins . |
| 7 | I forgot the cars were coming down the road . |
| 8 | A small group of men were coming down the path . |
| 9 | The door of the plane was open and people were coming down the steps one after another . |
| 10 | It will die out over there and the flames were coming through the bricks were n't it mam ? |
| 11 | They had passed through Arundel and were coming over the ridge at Whiteways Lodge roundabout , heading for Petworth and then the A3 at Milford . |
| 12 | Troops and tanks were coming over the bridge , the soldiers appeared very pleased to be here , waving and smiling at everyone . |
| 13 | ‘ Then how do you explain the fact that the kidnappers phoned urgently , demanding to see Ubaldo in person , at a time when you were still in Rome and no one supposedly knew you were coming except the authorities ? ’ |
| 14 | So , although I , I met individual tenants at prior to that , that was on a much more kind of ad hoc basis , they w when they were , were coming into the Law Centre , maybe about something completely different . |
| 15 | So they set off anyway and just in no time at all they were coming into the shore below Greentoft . |
| 16 | So if y there would be the cognitive demon which was the letter A and what would happen is , it would start looking at the features that were coming into the system and it would say , are they the ones associated with A ? |
| 17 | The several centuries of the ‘ Dark Ages ’ that followed the Roman withdrawal from Britain were a period in which peoples from northwest Germany and Denmark were coming into the country . |
| 18 | One day , soon after he arrived in the dale he had reason to go to another farm and overheard a conversation between two old ladies.p They were lamenting that it was a sad day because outsiders were coming into the dale and taking over farms and was n't it a shame they could n't be let to locals . ’ |
| 19 | They had followed her up the path meantime , and were coming into the room ; her uninspiring sons , Paul the lawyer , George the insurance broker , Hubert the medical student , his eyes strained with reading . |
| 20 | By the end of the fourth century the martyrs were coming into the city . |
| 21 | The letter has caused some concern in the Lower Ormeau area of Belfast as it would appear that outsiders were coming into the area after dark and running a carnival , during the week of our community festival and did n't even invite us . |
| 22 | ‘ People were coming into the shop saying they could n't understand why I had taken such an attitude . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ She 'll have told you we were coming for the boat . |
| 24 | Katherine 's remains were coming on the Saturday and on the Friday I slipped up to the cemetery and saw the grave diggers digging Mary 's grave . |
| 25 | The tone here mocks both anthropology and the related theories of racial purity ( as seen in the work of Frobenius ) which were coming to the fore at that time . |
| 26 | At the same time new types of industry , demanding different locational requirements , were coming to the fore . |
| 27 | We had been eight weeks in basic training and even in the most placid of us the qualities of self preservation and selfishness were coming to the surface . |
| 28 | Every flipping two minutes they were coming to the toilet . |
| 29 | Mrs Parkin described how children were coming to the school weighed down with tins of food . |
| 30 | The wounded Tree Spirits that the Robemaker had hacked and mutilated were coming to the aid of the two Humans who would free the Wolfprince . |