Example sentences of "he come [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | between a lot of parked cars and there was a , I was coming down the road and all I needed to do was to actually stop where I was cos there was enough room on his side of the road for him to come past the parked car and round me |
| 2 | Had he come to the wrong crossroads ? |
| 3 | He came down the tiny steps at the side of the stage and sat beside Zach . |
| 4 | When he came into the Provincial 's small executive team under managing director in June 1990 life was tough for the industry as a whole after the storms and other claims-raising disasters . |
| 5 | IAN WOOSNAM , so out of form coming into the Masters , nevertheless began to put up an heroic defence at Augusta National yesterday and was within a stroke of the lead as he came into the finishing holes in his second round . |
| 6 | Dr Nolan looked deadbeat as he came into the little bedroom at Milltown . |
| 7 | But he came to the front bench late , as Secretary of State for Employment from 1974 to 1976 , and leader of the House of Commons from 1976 to 1979 . |
| 8 | He ran on until he came to the tall reeds . |
| 9 | Ian pressed on down the passage , down two steps , until he came to the small wooden door in the fabric . |
| 10 | He came to the final special award , and then read out my name . |
| 11 | He sorted through Blanche 's things deliberately , one by one , and only stopped when he came to the building-society books she had purloined and Marek 's exercise book . |
| 12 | He found a certain amount of fossil evidence that the time planes were not parallel with the lithological boundaries and he came to the general conclusion that the facies to the north are in the main younger than those to the south . |
| 13 | But instead of releasing it he began to kiss each finger in turn until he came to the pale circle on the third finger of her left hand . |
| 14 | Charlie ignored the order and crawled quickly forward until he came to the prostrate body of his friend . |
| 15 | ‘ You draw good pictures , ’ said the boy , turning over the pages of the note-book till he came to the whole page drawing of a pheasant , the cock pheasant that Philip had coloured in at home . |
| 16 | He came up the steep Hill of Heaven on all-fours , his boots scuffing the flowers out of their holes and his fingers scrabbling . |
| 17 | First he came across the reserve trenches a few hundred yards in front of the hospital tents , known as the ‘ hotel area ’ as they were a quarter of a mile behind the front line , where each soldier spent four days without a break before being allowed four days of rest in the reserve trenches . |
| 18 | Just off Highway 83 north of Wellington , Texas , he came across the abandoned house of Mr and Mrs Sam Pritchard , who were unlucky enough to have been at home when the gangsters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker paid a call after their car had plunged off the road . |
| 19 | He was educated privately at home , and never knew there were other deaf people in the world until he came across the manual alphabet in one of the publications he was reading , and out of curiosity mastered it . |
| 20 | As he came through the front door he had picked up his post . |
| 21 | He came from the far north and at the Highland games he used to array himself in kilt and sporran and throw cabers around like matchsticks . |
| 22 | to the inside in , working his way round it , he came from the outside and then he was coming in , you know . |
| 23 | Leonard Cheshire and I were pilot officers together in No 4 Group at the beginning of the war ; he came from the dreaming spires of Oxford and I had just been commissioned as a pilot officer after serving a stint of five years as a sergeant pilot . |
| 24 | Clever , witty and articulate , he came from the intellectual elite which McCarthy so effectively attacked as responsible for many of America 's problems . |
| 25 | Philip ran towards it and as he came round the slight bend in the wide path he saw the boy tugging at it . |
| 26 | But how could he come from the opposite direction ? |
| 27 | He come to the remarkable conclusion that Ardakke was nothing less than the setting for the next evolutionary step for mankind . |
| 28 | I know , if he comes through the back door and |
| 29 | Cornwall tells him , ‘ the revenges we are bound to take upon your traitorous father are not fit for your beholding ’ ( III.vii.6ff. ) ) , he comes into the final stage of his career , moving from subject to object , first of Goneril 's love , then of Regan 's . |