Example sentences of "come [adv prt] through the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that 's probably come down through the years and things are still that way for musicians : get them as cheap as you can and never give them the credit that they deserve . ’ |
| 2 | It 's come down through the years , this story . |
| 3 | This was used by Bourgeois and Certon for Ps. 36 and Goudimel for Ps. 68 , ‘ Que Dieu se montre seulement ’ , but has come down through the centuries as a hymn to Sebaldus Heyden 's words ‘ O Mensch bewein dein Sunde gross ’ . |
| 4 | Ankrah , commanding the Ghana army , was retired he was due for retirement anyway ( he had come up through the ranks and served in Burma ) . |
| 5 | Another new face in the pack is lock Jeremy Cruiks who has come up through the ranks , while back in action are back-row duo Mark Hampton and David Croft , who fills in for injured number 8 Roger Wilson . |
| 6 | I think perhaps I 'd put that another way , but I do think there 's a definite sense in which change is going to come up through the colleges . |
| 7 | However , none of us should forget the relief of misery and the ending of conflict which have come about through the changes in Ethiopia , in Angola and in Cambodia , and we should not forget the changes in Vietnam , in Mozambique and in the western Sahara . |
| 8 | Came up through the ranks . |
| 9 | Many of today 's athletic superstars , such as Linford Christie , Colin Jackson , Roger Black , Sally Gunnell and Liz McColgan came up through the ranks of schools athletics . |
| 10 | It was a day of mixed emotions for a player who came up through the ranks at Ayresome Park . |
| 11 | Suragai came up through the trees . |
| 12 | The three horses on the highway had been caught and tethered by the time Michael came back through the trees , leading the roan . |
| 13 | He looked up as Marion , Conroy still clutched to her side , came out through the doors from the stage , some of the others trailing behind her . |
| 14 | A more stylish and dramatic return to English tradition came about through the Arts and Crafts Movement , which stood for integrity and truthfulness and believed whole-heartedly in the use of local craftsmen and materials . |
| 15 | In his essay ‘ The Novelist at the Crossroads ’ , Lodge sees most British authors hesitating between , or combining in a variety of ways , the possibilities of a main road of tradition — ‘ the realist novel … coming down through the Victorians and Edwardians ’ — and alternatives offered by modernism and the developments that have followed it ( Lodge 1971 : 18 ) . |
| 16 | I thought , when I heard him coming down through the bushes , it could be no one but Tutilo . |
| 17 | I tried to stop him , but it were Mr Benedict coming down through the kitchens in such a bang and shouting for his groom that started it . ’ |
| 18 | Afterwards I sit with him in the room at the back , the late afternoon light still coming in through the windows . |
| 19 | A single-glazed window has a ‘ cold zone ’ around it where you 'll get convection draughts ( as well as the draughts coming in through the gaps ) . |
| 20 | As one would expect , the majority of the sentenced prisoners coming in through the gates had received short terms , but 121 ( 13 per cent ) had been admitted to serve sentences over five years and 84 of these had received life imprisonment for murder . |
| 21 | It is rather like something that I used to do as a young groundsman coming up through the ranks , when I applied for vacant jobs all over the place , the bigger and more prestigious the place the better , and more often than not without the slightest intention of taking the job if it had been offered ! |
| 22 | Captain Paul Donohue says they 've got a lot of young players coming up through the ranks of the Oxford City Ice Hockey Club . |
| 23 | I coming up through the floorboards . |
| 24 | But the thing that I reflected on was here we were , into our third bombing year , and the mighty Eighth Air Force had come to our aid over thousands of miles of land and 2,000 miles plus of sea ; and they can come down through the clouds and land almost within sight of the place they were making for , with no navigation aids at all . |
| 25 | you ca n't come down through the gears |
| 26 | You ca n't because it would n't come out through the taps would it ? |
| 27 | But changes in the home could also come about through the affairs of other family members . |
| 28 | In analysing the information that comes in through the eyes , the brain works ‘ bottom up ’ , piecing together the information from individual retinal cells into larger wholes , and ‘ top down ’ , comparing pre-existing models in the brain with the visual input . |
| 29 | civilization come about , and in this book he gives part of the answer , and concentrates on that , and part of the answer he gives is , that it comes about through the institutions of religion . |