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

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1 An adult owl normally knows this and stays in shelter , but inexperienced hunters may not have the sense to come in out of the rain .
2 He would n't have enough sense of self-preservation to come in out of the rain .
3 Will he please help her and others like her to come in out of the cold ?
4 One of the soldiers had come up on to the cabin top .
5 Almost before you can see what has come up out of the hold the fish is loaded on the barrow and trundled off at breakneck speed , followed by the small boys and the cats .
6 We can never be a hundred per cent sure with security , we are , it is a public building , we do encourage er patients and their relatives to come up on to the children 's wards as part of the treatment er to make it a much more homely atmosphere .
7 ‘ As the shier and more uncertain of the two brothers , his problem was n't to be wimpish but to be funny , and he knew immediately that the comedy had to come up out of the character , not just out of what he said .
8 ‘ Years ago we threw the old didacticism ( dowdy morality ) out of the window ; it has come back in at the door wearing modern dress ( smart values ) and we do not even recognize it ’ ( p. 159 ) .
9 Jilly Jonathan was sitting just as she had been ever since they had come out on to the terrace .
10 Then , not even glancing at the room beyond , or at a woman who had come out on to the stairs , she led him away to a small room of perfect luxury at the back of the house , which was clearly her own .
11 In the less than half light Owen saw that Georgiades had come out on to the gallery .
12 Then my granny had to come out on to the verandah and interfere .
13 Also pensioners , there 's now more of an incentive for them to come back on to the labour market .
14 , like to come back up onto the yard line .
15 Maybe it is time that I came in out of the storm . "
16 The wind , I thought , was shaking the door , but no , it was St John , who came in out of the frozen darkness , his coat covered in snow .
17 As I came up out of the trough , the wave was pouting out a lip like the deck of an aircraft carrier .
18 Besides those who waited to journey together there were others who came up out of the forest alone and who seemed to belong there , men licensed by the Lord Warden to carry on their trade in certain parts of the forest , woodmen , trappers , charcoal burners , for the most part a silent surly sort of men who emerged from the forest , went briefly about their business , had little to say for themselves , and then disappeared into the solitude again .
19 After we came up out of the dank womb of the pit , we went for a drink in the welfare club .
20 But as the shaking continued she came up out of the bad dream , trembling and drenched once more with perspiration , her cheeks damp with tears .
21 Inside his head , beneath the odd blaze of hair , behind the reckless display of freckles , the same low horizon unrolled , the same milk-crate stacks of Council flats came up out of the east , like this , slowly turned , just so , and fell away into the west , like that …
22 There was something else that came up out of the minutes .
23 So Mary said she , she came back up to the , a little while ago she said she did n't get do something
24 Finally , the conversation came back around to the subject of Alina 's new job .
25 She came back out onto the terrace a few minutes later .
26 I , I think er erm when I first started down there , it was a job , I thought well this is a good job fifteen bob a week , that 's , that 's a lot more than some of the other boys who 'd left school got , they were twelve and six you see and erm , I think erm I came back out of the forces and took over more responsible jobs , I do n't think I could have gone to anything else but transport .
27 Well there was a big reunion er you know for all the m all the soldiers all the sold came back out of the war .
28 I , I did do years gone by yes and they , they did move into the football combination at one time , because it was considered that the Midland Intermediate League was too big a jump for young men into the first team and the difference was so vast in the type of football that Walsall second team they u only playing young fellas , and they used to win seven and eight goal margins every week you know , but then they moved up into combination that was a better standard of football , but latter years economy drives and everything they came back out of the combination reverted to the Midland Intermediate again which I believe there are two phases of that no one for s older players and the other one strictly for youth players
29 We all waited outside in St Martin 's Lane for 55 minutes , and to my surprise about 99 per cent of them came back in for the finish . ’
30 As Billy came back down by the river and up the hill towards the cottage , he knew the danger in the kitchen had a name at last .
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