Example sentences of "come [prep] the [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was n't Iris who told us , though she had known for some time that it had come through the Strait shortly after the Belgrano had been sunk . |
| 2 | ‘ She 's come through the operation very well . |
| 3 | AUTUMN-drilled crops in Scotland and the north of England have come through the winter best , according to the Home-Grown Cereals Authority . |
| 4 | He 's come through the game well , ’ said McCarthy . |
| 5 | She 'd have to take off her thick blue jersey soon , and she could n't remember how many buttons had come off the shirt underneath , and it was sleeveless , and she had n't shaved her armpits since Philippa asked her to supper last week . |
| 6 | I want a thousand pounds to come through the door now . |
| 7 | Candidates include : the inability or unwillingness of the Federal Reserve to stem the banking panic and maintain the money supply ; the failure to use fiscal policy intelligently ( up to and including Franklin Roosevelt 's New Deal after 1933 ) ; the uses and abuses of the gold standard ( Britain deciding to go back on the gold standard in 1925 at the pre-1914 parity , then deciding to come off the standard altogether in 1931 ; the refusal of many countries , especially America , to follow gold-standard rules ) ; the outbreak of trade war sparked by America 's Smoot-Hawley tariffs in 1930 ; and so on . |
| 8 | ‘ You 've got to come off the book sometime . ’ |
| 9 | Since I find novelists tend to say it better than sociologists , let me quote from one who seems to have anticipated a good deal of what was to come after the period when we had never had it so good : |
| 10 | The third defendant appears to have come onto the scene in about 1982 as a financial adviser in connection with the proposal to acquire and develop the bakery for the purposes of the centre . |
| 11 | But most of that property has come onto the market now , which in any event is steeply down in value from the heady days of the late 1980s . |
| 12 | All that means is that the original form was present in the rest of the Rift Valley during this period , never went extinct , and has now come into the lake again and has either made extinct , or in some other way swamped out the local form . |
| 13 | Erm , that 's come into the graph later on , |
| 14 | And who 's come into the side then , tell me a bit about erm Tony Primmer . |
| 15 | Interestingly , Harry had come into the game unusually late because he was already 24-years-old when chief scout Charlie Slade spotted him playing for . |
| 16 | And someone who had come into the district recently . |
| 17 | Light had come into the world again , even if it was to the accompaniment of tap-dancing elves . |
| 18 | ‘ He has not come into the shop once . |
| 19 | It was the other detective , White , who had come into the living-room far too quietly for my liking . |
| 20 | He invited him to come into the cottage out of the wet . |
| 21 | Now I tell them why if you 're gon na tell somebody why why your opinion is something the word because is bound to come into the sentence soon . |
| 22 | " Do n't ever dare to come into the garden again , " he ordered , with the same violence in his voice . |
| 23 | Dudley Moore used to come into the club twice a week to play the piano . |
| 24 | He and Whelan would have had a better chance if they had come along the floor more often , even despite the permanent ten-man claret and blue wall . |
| 25 | The biggest boost has come with the opening up of the Mediterranean . |
| 26 | He chased the customer down the road and told him never to come in the shop again — that was the way Ron was ! |
| 27 | And we 'd knock out things like ‘ Slow Death ’ by The Flamin' Groovies — who also used to come in the shop now and again when they were in town . |
| 28 | This was because the winding up petition was due to come before the court again on 30 July . |
| 29 | The hon. Gentleman has the opportunity of warning us all not to speak for too long , because another important measure , concerning the civil rights of disabled people , is to come before the House today . |
| 30 | A tow chain has been held not to be a ‘ part ’ ( Jenkins v Deane ( 1933 ) , 103 LJKB 250 ) but a tow bar connecting a vehicle and a trailer together has been held to come within the regulation where the joining was defective ( O'Neill v Brown 119611 1 QB 420 ) , |