Example sentences of "come [adv prt] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Is it not the case that although the wage increases of British workers have come down the benefits of that have been dissipated , and that due to the recession induced by the Government productivity has gone down although it has gone up in Germany and as a result unit labour costs in the year to the second quarter of 1991 went up by 3 per cent . |
2 | I 've now come off the pill without telling my boyfriend . |
3 | The front of the jeep was as clean as if it had just come off the boat from Japan . |
4 | ‘ I 've just come off the Isle of Man boat . ’ |
5 | The Sunday newspaper articles had come out the week before last , and were still bringing in letters . |
6 | We 'll go out for a drive probably out an hour , whereas years ago the horse used to come out the stable at seven in the morning he would n't go back till probably five at night . |
7 | We did , we did the Merry Widow and we had , th the Gazettes they 're called , th the Gazettes and er they used to come out the wings with all this , you know ? |
8 | The train slowed down as it reached the next station and the Punk stood up and came down the aisle towards them . |
9 | At first , Charles found only 150 clansmen , all of them Macdonalds , waiting to greet him but then the distant skirl of bagpipes was heard and the Camerons , 700 or 800 strong , came down the hillside in orderly columns , escorting the prisoners captured at High Bridge . |
10 | A horse came down the ramp in one bound , as if on wings , hit the concrete in a shower of sparks . |
11 | The elderly voice , half a challenge and half a tease , came down the telephone to Molly as she was in the middle of giving Jacqueline her supper . |
12 | Let's go ! ’ and Dave came down the tree in a way that made my eyes water . |
13 | When he came down the alley toward the club 's stage door he could see that there were three rough-looking teenagers who 'd clambered up the side of one of the big waste bins and were lifting stuff around inside . |
14 | The Libyan Arab Airlines Boeing 727 came down the day after the fourth anniversary of the Lockerbie bomb — allegedly planted by two Libyans — which killed 270 . |
15 | ‘ Oh , have you not ? ’ snapped the other , coming hastily forward to confront her as Theda came down the rest of the stairs . |
16 | She came to the rehearsal and came down the bridge over the orchestra where I was directing , and she said to the manager , ‘ If this veil remains , I do not sing . ’ |
17 | But when stuff came down the dock to people off , on to a boat , would that be stored in a warehouse first and then go on to the boat or would it be |
18 | Joe stood up and came down the table towards Harriet Shakespeare . |
19 | He walked straight back round the top of the little dale until they came down the slope to the road , well out of sight of the cottage . |
20 | ‘ As we came up the trackway of your house , Sir John , we found a Hand of Glory with a lighted candle in its fingers . ’ |
21 | Great carts pulled by as many as six horses at a time came up the roads from the east and waited at Ridgery Butts until a party of people who wanted to cross the forest formed up so that they could travel together . |
22 | " They came up the streets towards the station , crowds of people , young men . |
23 | When his case finally came up the evidence of the couple 's daughter , who had been watching the whole incident , was torn to shreds by Russell 's lawyer . |
24 | Several days before these events a ship came up the Ankh on the dawn tide and fetched up , among many others , in the maze of wharves and docks on the Morpork shore . |
25 | On the 42nd lap Levagh came up the straight between the grandstand and the pits in his silver Mercedes at about 240 kph ( 150 mph ) and was being followed by Fangio . |
26 | A man came up the ladder from the engine room and Dickie opened his letter . |
27 | It had to be in on the 7th October and we came back the beginning of September , so it was a bit of a rush , and that 's really one of my feelings about it — I sat down and wrote it off the top of my head and not an awful lot is very considered . |
28 | Cos you remember we came round , we came back the night before the traction engine rally cos I did n't have time to get organized . |
29 | ‘ S'great ! ’ came back the response from King 's Reach Tower . |
30 | Hot , bitter tears rolled down her cheeks , and with them came back the noise of the street . |