Example sentences of "come [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could go with the travel club , I suppose , but then you do n't get the chance to come down the Three Goats Heads pub in the city centre before and after the match and meet everyone else from the list — hopefully . |
| 2 | Shetland sheep are an example of a breed which has recently come off the Rare Breed Survival Trusts ' books , largely due to its popularity with small flock owners . |
| 3 | She was also a kind of mascot of the liberal intelligentsia — had she not come up the hard way from the very bottom of the heap to stand by Miller 's side defying the anti-Communist witch-hunters who wanted to jail him ? |
| 4 | But as a manager he 's come up the hard way and is burning to make the point that little guys get no favours . |
| 5 | Giving the vote , in effect , not only to men like Goldsborough who had always had it as a birthright , but to men like himself and Ben Braithwaite 's father who had come up the hard way . |
| 6 | Well anyway erm they it was interesting , they all seemed rather positive and the reason they were positive is because they perceive him as classless , as somebody who 's actually come up the hard way , who 's experienced the down side of life and who 's nevertheless , through hard work and perseverance and so on , triumphed over that , and actually reached the highest post in the land , and erm they seemed to feel that there was a erm that this was a good thing , that somebody who 's had experience of erm the less privileged side of life , somebody who , and I quote ‘ was n't born with a silver spoon in is mouth , and did n't got to public school and that sort of thing knows more about what 's life for the average person ’ and I agree with that . |
| 7 | And if you were an important enough visitor , you were allowed to come up the privy stair and straight into the great chamber . |
| 8 | But I could n't remember where the turn off was to come up the scenic route . |
| 9 | Now they 've come out the front door and the bus is running er coming down the road so they 're running for that bus , so they 're using up their energy , the insulin level 's there , but the energy level is going down . |
| 10 | ‘ There have been a number of occasions in the past when stories have appeared in the press saying what the figures are going to be in one or two days ’ time … but when someone quotes exactly the figure which is going to come out the next day it is hard to believe they just made an inspired guess . |
| 11 | They went to total excess and then they had to come back the other way . |
| 12 | Visiting time was over and Eleanor left , promising to come back the following afternoon . |
| 13 | Mr Crangle would spend hours rearranging them into their proper sections only to come back the next day and find them all mixed up again . |
| 14 | Gielgud gave him another chance , asked him to come back the next day and do it again . |
| 15 | It is however possible for one of their number to come back the next day and give the decision , the findings of fact and the reasons of the court , considered at rather more leisure than sometimes time will permit . |
| 16 | Sharp was very excited , and asked Kimber to come back the next day to play the tunes , while he wrote them down . |
| 17 | In the end it was Mary who had to calm Martin down , reassure him and promise to come back the next day . |
| 18 | Cos erm Greg came down the other night . |
| 19 | made it down the right hand side , he 's wearing number eleven but he came down the right hand side on this occasion and er a deep cross , he pulled it back brilliantly and who 'd missed that earlier header was there and could n't really miss on this occasion , but it was a fine header by him . |
| 20 | With his two daughters , one holding each hand , he came down the long staircase from the top-floor flat . |
| 21 | Again the danger came down the left flank as Dow passed to Drew Waddell who touched down . |
| 22 | The men came down the stern ladder . |
| 23 | At that moment Jack Carter and Dougal Munro came down the main staircase . |
| 24 | At many revolutions per second I came down the green slide into Brixton and beyond . |
| 25 | Broadhurst , who shot 68 , and Woosnam , 71 , were already in the clubhouse on that mark when Rystrom and Torrance , the last pair , came up the final fairway . |
| 26 | Now the major problem that came up the other day was that , I thought I had given you a very easy extract to translate into modern English , and it turned out not to be such an easy extract , obviously . |
| 27 | and then and then I was going yeah I really want to take , I 'll have to take my stereo home and he goes yeah your stereo 's quite big is n't it , I went when have you seen my stereo and he goes oh I came up the other day to see if you were in . |
| 28 | Now I came up the hard way , same as you . |
| 29 | Both country 's leaders were from the same generation Clinton is 46 , Major 49 and came up the hard way , she added . |
| 30 | yeah , but it came back the other day did n't it ? |