Example sentences of "come [adv] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The night shift volunteer was standing next to me getting ready to come on to the phones and as I came off a call he started to chat to me . |
| 2 | You know people who 's coming in from o the outside to come on to the flats , they 're the people at risk . |
| 3 | Amid mounting chaos , Iliescu issued a radio appeal to factory workers and others to come on to the streets to defend the revolution . |
| 4 | All the lights are up and cold air has come in with the officials . |
| 5 | The train had come in from the sidings and stood in the station , warm and pulsing , its engines reattached , the horses and grooms on board and fresh foods and ice loaded . |
| 6 | ‘ This report has just come in from the Environments Officer . |
| 7 | At my parents house , erm , in that , we 've had an extension in there , so the garden 's not there any more , but erm , I used , the light used to come in from the windows , so of at , at the angle to the bath , so I could n't lift my leg up , so I rub it gently like this , and I 'd watch the told me where I missed bits and |
| 8 | Manpower had come down over the years from 470,000 in 1960 to 215,000 twenty years later , but the business was still over-staffed . |
| 9 | I think that 's probably come down through the years and things are still that way for musicians : get them as cheap as you can and never give them the credit that they deserve . ’ |
| 10 | It 's come down through the years , this story . |
| 11 | This was used by Bourgeois and Certon for Ps. 36 and Goudimel for Ps. 68 , ‘ Que Dieu se montre seulement ’ , but has come down through the centuries as a hymn to Sebaldus Heyden 's words ‘ O Mensch bewein dein Sunde gross ’ . |
| 12 | After more anxious discussion , the woman who had come down with the leaves , bony and greyish of skin with her hair wrapped in a yellow turban , poured half , then all the small bottle of gin into the steaming mixture and ceremoniously put it in the centre of the floor . |
| 13 | This group is remarkable not only for the quality of its work , but also for the fact that no individual has ever been known by name ; only the corporate identity has come down across the years . |
| 14 | Eye-witness Maureen Darwin , who was waiting to board one of the US-bound jumbos , said : ‘ It was as if a giant unseen hand had come down from the heavens and just lifted the planes up and across the tarmac . |
| 15 | Because then Jesus said to him , who was he talking to , let's , let's start off on the verse one after er after he had come down from the mountains , great crowds followed him that 's Jesus is n't it ? |
| 16 | Her spirits had come down from the heights to the abyss . |
| 17 | In Lucien 's family , they had only come together at the times appointed by the Church : meals , various holidays , family councils and those mysterious , Church-nominated occasions when children were conceived . |
| 18 | The true population of genes , which constitutes the working environment of any given gene , is not just the temporary collection that happens to have come together in the cells of any particular individual body . |
| 19 | Put the dish(es) into a roasting pan containing enough freshly boiled water to come halfway up the sides . |
| 20 | Place the dish in a large baking pan and pour boiling water in the pan to come halfway up the sides of the dish . |
| 21 | They asked me a few questions and they said , ‘ You 'd better come along to the police station . ’ |
| 22 | Plaster had come away from the walls from ceiling to floor , and along the lower part the bared cement , originally grey , was stained yellow and smelt of urine . |
| 23 | Scotland must take their chances in London against a side that has been the most consistent for the last few years if they are to come away with the spoils of victory . |
| 24 | ’ ‘ It 's funny to think that just this afternoon I had the idea of getting poor old Eddy to come over to the Gates and tell me something about himself … |
| 25 | Aung San got through a message that he was ready to come over to the Allies while the Japanese understood that he would be fighting for them . |
| 26 | And er , we 'll see that if they 've , if they 've come through with the goods all right . |
| 27 | A wind had come through with the Josephites , and blown away the man 's whole world . |
| 28 | Once a call has come through from the police the team initiates a ‘ cascade call ’ system where say , one person is responsible for telephoning six other team members . |
| 29 | ‘ These have just come through from the printers . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ But I 'll be able to come home in the evenings and you can teach me the things I need to know , ’ said Endill . |