Example sentences of "we come [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think it might even be further away than we came on the Long Drive , ’ said Masklin quietly . |
| 2 | ‘ In a cliff on the edge of the city , about 2,500ft up from the valley floor , we came on an old tomb , full of bones and ceramic pieces . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ The selection committee is multi-racial and we came with the 30 best players we could pick . |
| 4 | ‘ The memory will always be with me of those lads ' faces , even though at the time I was only twenty years old myself , to see them sat on the floor of the aircraft , and some of the trying to negotiate the main spar , and the cheers and tears when we came over the white cliffs of England . |
| 5 | Cos , they sold out the , that 's all now and I think came from Yarmouth , they used , they used to have a big place at Yarmouth and we came through the other week and er I see their sheds are nearly all empty now , there . |
| 6 | Walking along the canal bank one day we came across a wee lady siting on the banking drawing . |
| 7 | We came across a small party of people sitting innocently on a rock enjoying the sunshine . |
| 8 | On the rocky point near the settlement we came across a small flock of birds which had a very familiar look about them : they were whimbrel , that Arctic version of the curlew which breeds on most of the northern islands , including Shetland . |
| 9 | As we turned another corner we came across a few villagers handling copra . |
| 10 | When we came to a final stop we were carried up many flights of stairs , taken into an apartment and dumped on the floor . |
| 11 | We returned to the car and drove on until we came to a small wooden bridge spanning a rivulet of water coming from a waterfall not far up the hillside behind . |
| 12 | Then , after quite a while , we came to a small clearing . |
| 13 | Masha and I found further cause for depression as , walking in search of a tube station , we came to a major intersection , a roundabout of relentless , screeching vehicles , three and four abreast : for in the centre , on the small concrete island , we saw a man lying on his side . |
| 14 | But unfortunately this did not last for long as we came to a narrow , shallow strip of the river . |
| 15 | ‘ Eventually we came to a mutual understanding whereby I would fill out five forms to cover each £50 cheque and I actually ended up signing 25 forms and five cheques to obtain my fuel . |
| 16 | And the first was a twelve volt but then we came to a hundred and ten so I just strung it down along the two top wires of the fence and they were live and oh there were about six or nine hen houses attached to the fence with those wires for electricity . |
| 17 | At the forward end of that we came to a glass-panelled door , which needed no key , and suddenly we were in the comparative quietness of the drivers ' cab , right at the front of the train . |
| 18 | Then we came to a smashed yellow stone façade and a doorway that led down into a cellar . |
| 19 | ‘ We came to a lonely place where I could hear the sea crashing on rocks near by . |
| 20 | After two days of arduous travel , we came to a dark-flowing river . |
| 21 | Soon after setting off we came to a forested valley along the banks of the Gwaun . |
| 22 | At about four o'clock in the afternoon , just before dusk , we came to a wooded bluff . |
| 23 | ‘ Part-way along the gorge we came to a smooth cavity that had been ground into the rock by swift flowing water . |
| 24 | We walked further along till we came to a quiet part . |
| 25 | We were examining the homework , sorting through the usual kind of difficulty but there was nothing to amiss , until we came to a light green garment . |
| 26 | Finally we came to a high plastic wall . |
| 27 | Everything seemed to be plain sailing now as we came to the 17th . |
| 28 | After 15 minutes we came to the comforting realisation that the phone had come unplugged from its socket . |
| 29 | Someone whistled them out when we came to the narrowest place , bows strung and shafts fitted , shouting to us to halt . |
| 30 | There is nothing new in that ; we came to the same conclusion earlier when studying the field of a line charge . |