Example sentences of "come [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been disappointed to find Dr Ockleton absent from his rooms in the morning , but a pretty girl in jogging kit , who had come loping down the stairs whilst he was knocking at Ockleton 's door , had run on the spot long enough to tell him that the doctor lectured on Tuesday mornings and that Harry would probably have better luck after lunch . |
| 2 | Terence was Jessica 's cousin , who had come sniffing at the Cultra house a couple of times early in Karen 's visit . |
| 3 | She prayed for Oliver to come crashing into the flat and take control . |
| 4 | A number of gipsy men had crowded around to learn why Seb had come galloping into the camp and now Noah Plunkett turned to them and began issuing orders in the Romany tongue . |
| 5 | The two biffos would have come sneaking through the door , rubbing their hands and telling themselves they 'd got me by the balls , and I 'd have pointed the extinguisher and put out their fire . |
| 6 | And as patients have become more involved in identifying and negotiating areas for learning and behavioural change , the field of investigation has come to borrow from the theories and practice of counselling . |
| 7 | Once , when he had been late and a crowd of louts from the factory had started to shout at her , calling out about her legs and what they 'd like to do to her , Georg had come storming down the road on a bicycle , jumped off , and knocked two of them down before the rest ran away . |
| 8 | There were on the film set few of the moments I had come to dread during the run of the stage show — when he 'd slap me down , or even when he would encourage me , egg me on . ’ |
| 9 | Kenneth , Mary and the boys had come holidaying to the Hebrides , as they did most years . |
| 10 | She had given him no opportunity to indicate that there was an old friend with him — not that there was , at that point , but there might have been , and if there had been , it was hardly his fault if Alexandra had chosen to come knocking on the door without giving him a chance to explain — and then getting stroppy when she found someone had got there before her . |
| 11 | He glanced up to where Merrill had come to stand in the doorway , an amused smile flickering across his sensual mouth , his eyes slightly mocking . |
| 12 | But all the other animals had grown so suspicious of El-ahrairah and his tricks that they would not let him out of that wretched country and every day Prince Rainbow used to come walking through the marshes to make sure that El-ahrairah was still there . |
| 13 | The Madame lived to the age of 90. when she died , some time in the 1970s , the hotel was left to Abdulrahim , a Nubian from Aswan who had come to work for the Madame as a young boy before the Second World War . |
| 14 | Or again , it is as though the disorganized and random bursts of photons present in a beam of white light were suddenly all being accelerated and agitated to precisely the same frequency and directed at the same spot — to produce the awesome source of energy that we have come to know as the laser . |
| 15 | From this tiny house had flowed some at least of the immortal words that the world had come to know as The Pickwick Papers . |
| 16 | Did you yourself come to know about the article in the Telegraph ? |
| 17 | Representatives of the few people they had come to know in the course of their wanderings round the world were left to clear up . |
| 18 | But this Christmas an invitation had come to celebrate with the Bradfords , and he had found her . |
| 19 | This time it was an inspector I who had come looking for the wing commander , his sergeant and his constable . |
| 20 | He had heard reports of a pirate ship in Black Hill Cove and had come looking for the pirates . |
| 21 | ‘ He 's come to talk with the General . ’ |
| 22 | This is where family work could be useful helping the whole family to understand the part alcohol has come to play in the life of the vulnerable elderly person , the pattern of abuse , the defensiveness about it , and the likely outcome . |
| 23 | Firstly the process of moving down towards our S S A needs to be facilitated because my own instinct is that the government , faced with all sorts of financial tribulations , is going to take a harder and harder nosed attitude towards local government expenditure , as it will unfortunately with an awful lot of the rest of what we have come to expect over the decades to be the responsibility of central government , clearly the current expenditure review is going to have some nasty shocks in it for consumers of account services , consumers of other assets of the welfare state but particularly I would suspect , the local government . |
| 24 | The Aggravated Vehicle-Taking Bill follows a course that we have come to expect from the Home Secretary and the Government . |
| 25 | It seems the French got the better part of the deal when the Eurodisney share price was announced in the City yesterday with all the overkill we have come to expect from the Americans . |
| 26 | However , lively detail is no substitute for an integrated texture of the sort we have come to expect from the WNO chorus and orchestra . |
| 27 | In general , this guide continues the same high standards we have come to expect from the Fell and Rock , despite a scattering of proof reading errors here and there . |
| 28 | Mrs Heaton said : ‘ I certainly did not expect this we had come to look at the architecture . ’ |
| 29 | The time has come to look at the Treaty of European Union and the philosophy which lies behind it in a little more detail . |
| 30 | She had come to look at the frescos of Sandweg , the frescos that interpreted the story of the Massacre of the Innocents — the slaughter of the male children of Bethlehem at the behest of Herod . |