Example sentences of "come [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | But as a manager he 's come up the hard way and is burning to make the point that little guys get no favours . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And if you were an important enough visitor , you were allowed to come up the privy stair and straight into the great chamber . |
| 7 | But I could n't remember where the turn off was to come up the scenic route . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They went to total excess and then they had to come back the other way . |
| 10 | Visiting time was over and Eleanor left , promising to come back the following afternoon . |
| 11 | Cos erm Greg came down the other night . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | With his two daughters , one holding each hand , he came down the long staircase from the top-floor flat . |
| 14 | Again the danger came down the left flank as Dow passed to Drew Waddell who touched down . |
| 15 | The men came down the stern ladder . |
| 16 | At that moment Jack Carter and Dougal Munro came down the main staircase . |
| 17 | At many revolutions per second I came down the green slide into Brixton and beyond . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Now I came up the hard way , same as you . |
| 22 | Both country 's leaders were from the same generation Clinton is 46 , Major 49 and came up the hard way , she added . |
| 23 | yeah , but it came back the other day did n't it ? |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , thank you , Corp , ’ came back the sarcastic cry . |
| 25 | We came out the other side of it with a temporary chauffeur , a good profit and a really first-rate new name : that of Hamilton de Souza . |
| 26 | Harvey and I came out the other side looking like a couple of spooks . |
| 27 | The pellet went right through the cat 's neck and came out the other side , leaving a gaping wound . |
| 28 | all , just hardboard like that , with just a little O like that and you , you , you shout a pint of beer and you pushed your money through and then a beer ca came out the other side ! |
| 29 | If that happened , when the sun came out the lingering nicotine would burn yellow marks around the edges of young foliage . |
| 30 | She tried to sound playful , but somehow the words came out the wrong way . |