Example sentences of "come [verb] [adv prt] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that , you can expect Leeds mail to come surging down the wires to your computer every day of the week , and aim to join in the talk whenever you can . |
| 2 | ‘ According to this girl , ’ says Charles , ‘ great avalanches are going to come sliding down the mountains , burying people by the dozen . ’ |
| 3 | In Whitehall , three words came to sum up the appointments policy . |
| 4 | These notes were invaluable when I came to write up the results of the study . |
| 5 | Then , as the players came thundering down the boards , she joined the stampede , trying to steal the ball and nearly bringing down the pony of a fat child with pigtails , whose mother promptly started yelling at Daisy . |
| 6 | As a result , people in these institutions quickly came to take on the roles and goals which these institutions required for their survival . |
| 7 | More generally , any laissez faire connection helps very little in understanding how Darwin came to take up the problems his theorizing was to solve . |
| 8 | At the same time , in some towns at least , bishops came to take over the duties of such late Roman officers as the defensores , who had been expected to defend the weak . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , working class women could still filter out useful information from a visit to a School for Mothers , and as the local authorities increasingly came to take over the Schools and Babies ' Welcomes and turn them into infant welfare centres , so they became more acceptable to working class women . |
| 10 | So she 's phoned , and I says , ask them if they 're coming to board up the windows which were boarded when she went in ? |
| 11 | When came to dig out the foundations and like the buildings round the tanks . |
| 12 | When they come to write up the results of their research different anthropologists will , for doctrinal reasons , give very different weight to these two major aspects of the data , but , in the field , the anthropologist must always pay attention to both sides . |