Example sentences of "they come [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I no longer vociferously challenge those who insult ; instead , I may casually invite them to come for a coffee and see/meet some students .
2 They came for a weekend just before we left Starlings . ’
3 They came for a draw and got it .
4 But in latter days they came with a tank and they put it out and put it in a trailer you see but I just worked with bags when it was the first of it .
5 They came with a boat , and did all their shopping in Tobermory , so we did not see much of them at all . ’
6 Marching on that night , suffering terribly from thirst , they came on a track that was not marked on their maps but was used by vehicles .
7 Next morning they sighted U-593 and attacked her ; about midday they came on a fleet of French trawlers but were satisfied they carried no German radio operators .
8 A few miles further down the road they came on a group of Italians with rifles waving at them to stop , obviously having been alerted by the German post .
9 They came as a lightning surprise to them when two hundred American planes came over the city clearly visible in the cloudless sky , the Italians kept separating in two camps because of fascist and non- fascist fleet ran around frantically trying to get fog machines working , trying to obscure the target but the fog prevented warships in the harbour for putting up an effective anti-aircraft barrage .
10 There would have been no question whether the children would come ; they came as a matter of course and ‘ right behaviour ’ .
11 At last they came to a clearing , where Vic headed for a mossy log .
12 They came to a clearing and Nicky slumped on to the trunk of a felled tree , shaded by the overhanging branches that almost covered the space it had made .
13 Next they came to a clearing in the forest where they saw a great flock of doves .
14 Anabelle and Uncle Alfred left the turtle and hurried along the bank of the canal until they came to a hole in the ground , where they stopped .
15 Presently they came to a stone wall , beyond which was a huge symmetrical mound .
16 They came to a kitchen with a spacious drawing room beyond at the front of the house .
17 But they came to a working arrangement with her — ‘ and the price they exacted from her was this up-front crusading thing about AIDS . ’
18 ‘ Whoa there , lass , ’ said Jake as they came to a halt .
19 What is more , the old iron trucks with their armour plating are still lying rusting beside the old Kubri road just where they came to a halt in 1948 , the wheels stripped of their tyres but their iron bullet shields still intact .
20 They came to a halt at a barrier , assuming it was manned by a few nervous Italians .
21 Tom squeezed on the reins and they came to a halt .
22 They came to a halt at a busy road crossing .
23 They came to a halt before the doors of the Manse and grooms ran out to take their horses , unarmoured Hearthwares helping their comrades from the saddle .
24 They came to a halt outside the front door flanked by huge stone urns overflowing with red geraniums .
25 ‘ About this afternoon , ’ she said again , as they came to a halt outside the pillared portico of her hotel .
26 It took the three of them over an hour to reach the bottom of the slope , where they came to a halt .
27 They came to a head in 1562 at the Council of Trent , reconvened after a ten-year break .
28 They came to a pub which was low and dark and already starting to get crowded .
29 In the darkness , arms around each other , they came to a decision , and though the decision was a relief for Chrissie in terms of her two kids , it was a sad one for the two adults .
30 They came to a stop .
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