Example sentences of "they have come [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Instead of having they had to come through the Dock Commission all of the men , they wanted so and so men for that boat , they used to come through to me .
2 Just at the moment other men are beginning to wonder if they 've come to the end of themselves , and if this is all that life has to offer , you discover a complete new range of abilities in yourself .
3 They 've come for the children 's parade , ’ he said softly , motioning her to a seat .
4 They 've come through the hole in time .
5 As soon as they had come through the hedge they saw Fiver .
6 They had come off the M3 and were cruising on the dual carriageway A303 .
7 He and Whelan would have had a better chance if they had come along the floor more often , even despite the permanent ten-man claret and blue wall .
8 They had come to the hotel to make love .
9 They had come to the Kingsbrook bridge and the beginning of the footpath to Sewingbury that followed the waters of the river .
10 Hailing each other , they found that they had come to the same conclusion : that so far as they could tell , in the gloom and confusion , the night was theirs , the camp completely broken up , the enemy scattered and leaderless and unlikely to rally now .
11 Brian felt that they had come to the end of that day 's talk .
12 D'Alembord was an old friend who had dined frequently with Sharpe and Lucille since they had come to the Netherlands .
13 But they had come to the door of her apartment and the moment was here and now , impossible to delay .
14 And they had come to the conclusion that it was not American slate cos there were no quarries in that time .
15 Since they had come to the house she had grown progressively calmer , more relaxed .
16 They had come to the right guy !
17 They had come to the stile at the end of the park .
18 Then Joseph realized why they had come upon the city so completely by surprise ; it was the uncanny silence .
19 Originally they had come from the Dartmoor Pony Sale as weanlings the previous autumn and had spent the winter in a large stable .
20 Someone stepped on a loose plank in the alley down which they had come from the bridge , and the timber squealed .
21 On the carpet by the tallboy were several red carnations , as fresh as they had come from the florist , and beside them , a shattered glass spill .
22 They had come from the Murray .
23 Meredith waved goodbye and watched her set off back the way they had come in the direction of Pook 's stables .
24 They had come in the night and lit a fire under the stage .
25 In the Exchequer , as we have seen , they had come by the sixteenth century to be usual even for so important an officer as the Chancellor .
26 Even if you are only seeing a few people there should be someone to greet them on arrival and make them feel they have come to the right place on the right day .
27 Scientists have been measuring the tide at Burnham-on-Sea , jotting down hours of sunlight , measuring the temperature to 14 decimal places and they have come to the conclusion that water levels could rise by a foot over the next 40 years .
28 Parents sometimes feel embarrassed about describing their child 's problems in front of the child , so asking the child first why he or she thinks they have come to the clinic can open the discussion .
29 There is an alternative to either of these courses which may be worth considering and that is that the Government should take the line that they have come to the conclusion that , while some restriction ought to be made in the infliction of the death penalty , the time has not yet come for its complete abolition .
30 They have come to the conclusion that , from the point of view of the welfare of the children , it is more important to the children that they should not be separated from each other than that either child should go to one of the grandmothers .
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