Example sentences of "come [adv prt] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | You 'll hear it coming down the anal passage |
| 32 | Dot woke when she heard Gloria coming down the clanky metal steps outside , heard her stumble her way across the room , and then felt herself being pushed to the far side of the bed . |
| 33 | When one thinks , however , that coming up the Sacred Way one 's first sight of the building would be the corner , the long Gigantomachy stretching in front of one , the combat of the east abutting on it and the seated gods closing the composition at the end , one understands that it is so designed to suit its position ; as the formal archaic structure of the west frieze suits the highly decorated frontally approached entrance-façade . |
| 34 | She was coming up the central passage between the rows of tables . |
| 35 | And coming back the other way . |
| 36 | In fact , George Every , then a lay brother at Kelham , with whom I had started a correspondence , told me later that Eliot , while praising some individual points , had said that the general impression it gave was of material being put through a machine and coming out the other side more or less as it was before . |
| 37 | She stayed where she was , waiting to see him come down the senior run , and her first sight of his black-suited figure made the breath catch in her throat . |
| 38 | I 'd come up the hard way you see . |
| 39 | ‘ Let's go across the top of the hill and see them come out the other end of the tunnel , ’ Peter said to his sisters . |
| 40 | Yeah , yeah , like I come down the other week and I |
| 41 | Yeah but what happens when you come down the other end ? |
| 42 | Come over the other side . |
| 43 | We might ask desk officers to make an initial selection of important records as they come off the live system . |
| 44 | To win Test matches , one has to take wickets consistently , and a high proportion of chances come off the outside edge of the bat . |
| 45 | The trouser , sock and shoe come off the hemiplegic leg last . |
| 46 | My missus has to buy the kids ' clothes down the jumble sale and if she wants a pair of nylons they come off the Green Shield stamps . |
| 47 | The overlords at Citroen say it 's just a show car , but with Peugeot and Citroen able endlessly to vary the mix of 605s and XMs that come off the shared line at Sochoux , a third model , an XM coupe , is not an impossibility . |
| 48 | Well she come up the other day , they wanted to exchange Kelly 's old house for , for , for her , somebody wants it er part exchange Kelly 's house , you know then go and |
| 49 | Tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano ( b. 1952 ) has in some respects come up the hard way ; passing the 40-year mark last year , he 's nevertheless a craftsman often overlooked in the public eye in favour of younger more ‘ marketable ’ musicians . |
| 50 | I 'm pretty confused when I come out the other end . |
| 51 | If it was n't you could walk through a hail of machine-gun fire and come out the other end without even a scratch . ’ |
| 52 | They just walk round , they do n't do nothing , they 'll probably just walk up this and then c come out the other end and go back to the police station . |
| 53 | between the flats and come out the other end . |
| 54 | No one follows , so I come out the other end and nip round the small block . |
| 55 | But we were able to work through it and come out the other side . |
| 56 | so hopefully they should grow through the fence , come out the other side and eventually the fence will be hidden such as |
| 57 | And come out the main door . |
| 58 | The study doors are those that face one as one comes down the great staircase . |
| 59 | Hits it so low , he knocks it off and he comes down the wrong way and lands on top of us . |
| 60 | You dial the destination , feed the paper in , press the Start button and , hey presto , a facsimile copy comes out the other end . |