Example sentences of "[adv] come [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , not merely was there a conflict of medical evidence , but even Dr. D. , upon whose opinion Thorpe J. eventually based his decision , described W. as having ‘ a mild case of anorexia nervosa ’ and that although he ( Dr. D. ) had eventually come round to the view that W. should be treated at the specialist London unit , the decision was quite finely balanced . |
| 2 | The mitre template has since come back onto the market , but at prices like £18-£20 and considering the relatively small amount of work in which it is employed , some readers will no doubt feel that they could spend that money more profitably , so will want to make their own . |
| 3 | With only three minutes remaining in their Sharwood 's Irish Senior Cup semi-final clash against Pegasus , Sinead , who had only come on at the start of the second-half , popped up to score the only goal of the game . |
| 4 | One Sunday at the Trocadero the chief circle usher said to me , ‘ I think you 'd better come up to the back circle , Gents , we 've got a bloke behaving obscenely . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You 'd better come back in the house and dry your shoes and socks , ’ said Betty . |
| 6 | They asked me a few questions and they said , ‘ You 'd better come along to the police station . ’ |
| 7 | The Jarvis family had all come down in the world , considering the money their Victorian grandfather , a manufacturer of bathroom fittings , had made for them , Ernest with the dwindling Cambridge School , Evelina nutty as a squirrel 's cage and with her first sojourn in a nursing home behind her , Cecilia married to a Customs officer . |
| 8 | The lorry had not long come out of the tunnel when Tony suddenly clicked his tongue and applied the footbrake . |
| 9 | Illes had not come up through the state bureaucracy , and his appointment as deputy state secretary was looked upon as a " statement of intent " by many in the environmental lobby . |
| 10 | One can speculate that if Mezey had not come up with the idea of dispensing with two hospitals , and of the remaining four being given a quadrant of the region to serve each , the idea that it was an RHA rather than local management responsibility to deal with the issue , might never have stuck in the minds of senior regional officers . |
| 11 | and what you 've got to be very careful , cos you ca n't offer them and not come up with the goods |
| 12 | ‘ I tell you what , ’ he said , after thinking for a few seconds , ‘ as you 're so keen on horses why not come up to the farm when you 've got some time to spare and help my young niece in the stables ? |
| 13 | Then if he still has not come out of the tent I will go down there while it is still light , very quietly , and see if I can see , without getting too close , how he is . |
| 14 | But no , she could not ride tomorrow , her boots had not come back from the shoemaker 's . |
| 15 | Edward had not come back from the construction firm at David with anything saved up , but then , she had hardly expected him to . |
| 16 | Fings are changin' now though , an ? it 's not come about by the kindness o' the employers . |
| 17 | ‘ In fact , if you 're not otherwise engaged , why not come along to the wedding with me ? |
| 18 | MRS Thatcher 's friends tell me that she has finally come around to the idea of going to the Lords after the election . |
| 19 | After years of anticipation , the Taiwanese-backed NuTek USA Corp in Cupertino , California has finally come down to the wire with its Macintosh-compatible technology : the company claims that it has developed the first machine that emulates the Macintosh without requiring installation of Apple Computer Inc 's proprietary ROMs . |
| 20 | Demand is so high that there is bound to be plenty of interest in two new properties in need of some tender loving care which have just come on to the market . |
| 21 | Well it was if it 's only just come through from the fryer |
| 22 | ‘ These have just come through from the printers . ’ |
| 23 | This was odd , since the BBC had just come up with the figures of 301 for the Tories and 298 for Labour . |
| 24 | The wh he said in fact it 's just come in for the programme or something has n't it . |
| 25 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 26 | It was quite soon after the terrible motor accident that had crippled him for life , and she had just come in from the garden with a bunch of flowers for him . |
| 27 | ‘ This report has just come in from the Environments Officer . |
| 28 | Then , when the horse is brought out of the stable , instead of just walking quietly along ( which it would if it had just come in from the paddock ) , it is jumping out of its skin , ready to spook and shy at anything , nostrils dilated , eyes bulging , and tail hoisted high . |
| 29 | Brown Owl called out anxiously to Mr. Gordon , who had just come down to the gate leading into the Brownies ' meadow . |
| 30 | But he admitted : ‘ It is a crashing diappointment for Rob because he had only just come back into the side — and his return coincided with two successive clean sheets . ’ |