Example sentences of "they come [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fred joined them and urged them to come to the cemetery in the funeral cars . |
| 2 | We fought for them to come to the Assembly , where they could speak their minds and meet the Africans they never meet , and together listen to the Almighty Who might know better even than they what is best for the country . |
| 3 | On the Sunday following the manor fire , as Tom , Seb , Dolly and Carrie left Swinbrook chapel after the morning service , Christian asked them to come to the farmhouse . |
| 4 | Wiping her eyes once more with a sodden hanky , Evelyn waited for them to come into the room . |
| 5 | When the public respond to your advertisements or because they have heard that you do personal injury work , it is not enough just to tell them that you do and expect them to come into the office . |
| 6 | they 'd like , like them to come from the floor and not from another from a committee member says , yeah I sponsor Billy , and another committee member says I |
| 7 | I doubt if they would in this well I would n't want them to come in the fog |
| 8 | ‘ What do you want ? ’ shouted a frightened Goodenache as the two of them came into the room . |
| 9 | So when I got there , it 's the swimming coach there and a uniformed inspector and a particular individual who came from Cambridge University ( quite a few of them came into the force at that time — in 1932 ) . |
| 10 | He could have sat down with only one of them and achieved the same guidance on weight and machining capability , but three of them came to the meeting , which he thought typical of engineers . |
| 11 | The general occupational picture of black sportsmen 's parents is consistent with the rest of the first generation Caribbeans in the UK and as nearly all of them came from the West Indies ( mostly from Jamaica , but others from Dominica , Antigua , St Kitts , St Lucia , Montserrat and Guyana and fewer still from Trinidad , Nevis and Barbados and a small number from West Africa ) this is not unusual . |
| 12 | all three of them came from the pub , |
| 13 | It is known that many families emigrated to Canada during the fifty years from 1818 to 1868 and a great number of them came from the crofts . |
| 14 | We could hear them coming up the stairs right to our door and then shouting and hammering on it . |
| 15 | Quite soon I heard them coming up the stairs . |
| 16 | The verses seem to be saying that the disciples understand because they have been given the secrets of the mystery of the kingdom but everybody else is taught in parables so that it will confuse them and prevent them coming into the kingdom . |
| 17 | We waited for them coming across the brig . |
| 18 | Sarah Fleming saw them coming through the window of the front room . |
| 19 | I remember them coming through the shop once , want any cheap bananas ? |
| 20 | As Kim tugged T'ai Cho around the corner he could see them coming down the corridor , not forty ch'i away . |
| 21 | Shareholders are requested to complete and return the proxy card , but this does not preclude them coming to the meeting and voting in person . |
| 22 | We did n't like them coming in the police station , they used to come into our parade room where our men were having food , and you can imagine them coming in a bit lousy and so on . |
| 23 | You could hear them coming from the distance , back . |
| 24 | so we saw them , er saw them actually because we live in a flat , and we saw them coming from the station , er one , one Saturday morning |
| 25 | About 10 per cent of the new jobs are likely to go to the self-employed , most of them coming from the ranks of those already in employment . |
| 26 | Too often now , in the last four years in planning committee , time and time again , we get applications from departments , and most of them coming from the police authority , for changing residential accommodation to other uses . |
| 27 | With just over 20 miles to go Curry led Boone by 1.10 , but the less experienced Roe Valley rider was starting to slow , and as they came past the finish line with 16 miles remaining his lead was down to 48 seconds . |
| 28 | And as they came towards the end of the day he had to do some quick thinking to find out whether he 'd have to keep the men working right up to the last minute in order to get the stint , of three-quarter of an acre 's ploughing for each man , finished . |
| 29 | His parents did not get on and parted during the war , which put an end to the old hierarchic world of Amnersfield , where you were not to look at your masters when they came up the drive , but to hoe on regardless . |
| 30 | She could hear Jack and Alison modifying the pitch of their voices as they came up the stairs . |