Example sentences of "come [prep] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the suggestion might well have come from him in the first place , which would have been so much better for everyone . |
| 2 | Although Blanche had been sad standing there in Mother 's empty flat , she had been overtaken then by the same feeling she sensed come over her in the interrogation room that night after Taczek had left . |
| 3 | He had come to her in the night . |
| 4 | I am a recent subscriber , having recently renewed my subscription for a second year and I have enjoyed every issue that has come to me in the post . |
| 5 | I strongly felt that Resenence had come to me in the dream and yet , when I awoke , when the morning came , I told myself I had created it myself . |
| 6 | Jesus had not left them orphans : he had come to them in the person of the Spirit , who was not only the special gift of the Messiah to the messianic people in order to enable them to know his continued presence with them , but was the first instalment of the Age to Come , the pledge that the last days which had dawned with Jesus of Nazareth would , one day , come to God 's perfect conclusion . |
| 7 | But nothing came of it in the end . |
| 8 | ‘ It came from me in the first place , did n't it ? |
| 9 | Eluard 's soaring ‘ lyricism ’ helped to perpetuate a tyranny , and is the kind of thing which led Kundera to employ the title The Lyric Age for the work which first came to him in the mid-Fifties , and which his publishers prevailed on him to retitle Life is elsewhere when it was completed in 1969 . |
| 10 | It came to him in the small hours . |
| 11 | Carrie 's voice came to him in the darkness . |
| 12 | Conversely , if the accused can show that the material came to him in the normal course of business from a reputable supplier , he may have a defence . |
| 13 | Picasso 's grand-daughter , Marina , is selling forty-eight of his works which came to her in the share-out among the family of his estate , and which are normally kept at the Geneva freeport warehouse . |
| 14 | When Pat came to me in the autumn of 1989 she was suffering from osteoarthritis of the neck and spine with accompanying raised blood pressure . |
| 15 | I waited until you came to me in the hospital , I had to . |
| 16 | ‘ When they came to me in the summer , some of the shirts they offered were horrible . |
| 17 | No more than an hour passed before Jean-Claude came to me in the scullery and said he would be away for a few days . |
| 18 | She said er well they came to us in the interval and Con was just like , I thought she 'll call me when Sally has gone , Sally had their address , she 'd just you know , she was gon na be in there and Con said , look , did you look at that dress she said , whoever makes them ! |
| 19 | If he came on them in the darkness and they were … but she would n't … it was perfectly natural … she was eighteen and he … |
| 20 | Well I 'm finishing me tape she 's coming for it in the morning . |
| 21 | As they came up , Meredith was surprised at the amount of body-heat coming from them in the low outside temperature . |
| 22 | A bit of thought indicated that , clearly , consumers , having minds , emotions , senses , and all the psychological paraphernalia that foul up our mental processes , would in some way ‘ process ’ the material coming to them in the form of advertisements . |
| 23 | She now turned quickly towards Aggie , adding , ‘ She will come for me in the morning , wo n't she ? |
| 24 | They both remained silent , looking at her ; then Aggie said , ‘ She 'll come for you in the mornin' . |
| 25 | We all know why we are there , But there is a constant control and you go to bed not knowing if they might not come for you in the night . |
| 26 | he said , he did n't wan na go out with , he did n't wan na come with you in the holidays . |
| 27 | More and more she was acting like a bitch ; more than once she had to restrain the urge to hit out at him , punch him in his good-looking , smarmy face , especially when she would come upon him in the drawing-room sitting holding her great-gran 's hand , stroking it gently as if it were a cat , and that old woman sitting there and , like a cat , lapping it up . |
| 28 | ‘ She did come to me in the first place . ’ |
| 29 | They 'll still come to nothing in the end … |
| 30 | ‘ Some answer might come to you in the middle of the night , and if it does n't , you can tackle Faye about it tomorrow . ’ |