Example sentences of "come [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm thinking about marketing my services on quality and relating to customers in a way that I 'd just begun to think of before but now it 's come right to the front .
2 I am a Labour supporter with many friends carrying cards , and , despite having observed the ‘ anti-Labour virulence ’ of the SNP , I do want Labour to come together with the Nats , the Liberals , the Greens , the Unions , the churches , the mosques , the synagogues , Uncle Tom Cobbley and all .
3 In fact anti-racism and anti-sexism seem to come naturally to the Ahlbergs .
4 Darkness had come prematurely with the deluge , the gloom summoned early by such an abundance of black cloud .
5 The inspiration for the first stones seems to come less from the East than from Bronze-age pieces found and imitated .
6 It 's not that we 've planned a compromise , it 's what has come naturally within the group .
7 The eight parties which had come together as the Kurdistan Front took part on May 19 in elections for an executive leader and a 105-seat Iraqi Kurdistan National Assembly for the Kurds of northern Iraq .
8 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 .
9 To this end , they have come together under the umbrella of the Negros Ecumenical Endeavour for Development ( NEED ) , an institution that was formed in 1979 to serve deprived and oppressed communities in the central islands of the Philippines , including Negros .
10 The previous year , BASF , Bayer , Hoechst , Agfa and a number of smaller German companies had come together in the Interes-sengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie ( IG Farben ) .
11 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 .
12 Unsettled at having come halfway around the world to find herself in the same town at the same time as Vitor d'Arcos , she had skipped over any articles which mentioned him , but , on turning a page , had found an article which she could not ignore .
13 Put the dish(es) into a roasting pan containing enough freshly boiled water to come halfway up the sides .
14 Place the dish in a large baking pan and pour boiling water in the pan to come halfway up the sides of the dish .
15 ‘ Not that anyone 's going to come anyway at the moment .
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17 Mr Widmer praised the minister for his ‘ sympathetic attitude ’ and said the company had come away from the meeting re-assured that it would not be forced to move .
18 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 .
19 But then anyone who picked up a book entitled Does God Exist ? hoping to come away with the answer is liable to be disappointed .
20 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 .
21 The first priority tomorrow must be to come away from the game with at least a point .
22 He refused to come downstairs into the cellar but more or less instructed me to return to Oakington at once , as the Commander-in-Chief wanted to speak to me .
23 He soon learned that it had come ashore on the island of Cyprus , where the ruler , Isaac Ducas Comnenus , had already seized several survivors from other wrecks and now virtually held Richard 's bride and his sister to ransom .
24 While we had been on the opposite bank a new barge had come upriver from the direction of Minya and had moored near the end of the Corniche .
25 However , a rule that is easier to remember and to follow is : never allow the horizon in a scene to come exactly on the centre line of the frame .
26 Some women would have come downstairs with the poker at the ready . ’
27 Return the fruit to the pan and add enough water to come just below the level of the fruit .
28 I used to get a pretty good idea of what was to come just from the way they shook hands with a grown-up .
29 Observers commented that the party 's support appeared to come largely from the Kikuyu , the country 's largest ethnic group , and that it lacked the broad-based support enjoyed by FORD .
30 Two points away from winning the league flag , Christmas has come early to the Perth fans ; ensconced in a new all-seater stadium , they are visiting an Ayr team under Ally McLeod 's managerial direction .
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