Example sentences of "he [verb] come [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 How far he has come since the days in Harry Fischer 's office above the tobacconist 's , with the cosy office jokes and the lunch time beers in the pub !
2 He has come under the microscope of German giants Bayern Munich and is clearly a man the Crues will have to watch carefully as well .
3 At length , the passage he has been stooping along opens out somewhat into a low chamber : he has come to the shrine of a goddess .
4 By the time he arrives in front of Ronald , he has come to the boil and the pate is registering off the scale of visible light .
5 Member of Clan othel URC and has worked and served as a form of day pastor at Clygarthy URC and he has come from the Anglican tradition Church of England and he has erm over the years towards the reform tradition .
6 ‘ 3(1) Any assumption by a person of the rights of an owner amounts to an appropriation , and this includes , where he has come by the property ( innocently or not ) without stealing it , any later assumption of a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner .
7 ‘ 3(1) Any assumption by a person of the rights of an owner amounts to an appropriation , and this includes , where he has come by the property ( innocently or not ) without stealing it , any later assumption of a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner .
8 This result is probably implicit in the concept of appropriation ( or ‘ conversion ’ ) ; but it is made explicit by the provision in clause 3(1) that a person 's assumption of the rights of an owner ‘ includes , where he has come by the property ( innocently or not ) without stealing it , any later assumption of a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner . ’
9 He has come by the property without stealing it and has later assumed a right to it by keeping it .
10 At a nearby house , Leonard Hough , a retired schoolmaster , had earlier told me about ‘ the fog ’ which he says comes from the factory .
11 Has the minister indicated Madam Speaker , this is my point of order , whether or not he intends to come before the house to acknowledge the reality of the two tier system and to admit he has been misleading the house .
12 He decided to come to the point .
13 A couple of months later he did come to the Hammersmith Odeon with Bernie and me to see them play I could seethe relief on his face when he realised they really were a band .
14 When he did come into the kitchen , it was to see Annie and the visitor tucking into tea and jam tarts .
15 Oh he , he did n't come over by , oh he did come by the quarry .
16 But he did come upon the little house that was waiting for him , in a clearing in the depths , and was cheered by the lines of yellow light he could see between and under the shutters .
17 Then , as he prodded the mash with a fork , he appeared to come to the surface .
18 He had come through the back of the coffee shop yard , through the kitchen , out onto the verandah .
19 When she looked up he had come through the barrier towards her .
20 For a moment I thought he had come across the bottle of wine given to me by the couple at Benouville bridge café .
21 He tore a page from his notebook , offered it with a pencil to Sharpe , then volunteered his own patrol to take the despatch to General Dornberg 's headquarters in Mons. Dornberg was the General in charge of these cavalry patrols which watched the French frontier , and finding one of his officers had been a stroke of luck for Sharpe ; by pure accident he had come across the very men whose job was to alert the allies of any French advance .
22 When he had come off the phone the night before and Erica had asked who it had been , he had replied , with a certain confidence and an audible distaste , ‘ Someone talking nonsense ’ .
23 When he had come on the scene about fifteen years earlier he had been a spectacular hitter of a golf ball and a brilliant putter : a fearsome blend of talents in a golfer — if they combine regularly .
24 The director , Andrew Warren , admitted that even in that citadel of energy conservation he had come to the conclusion that the savings would not justify the cost .
25 On 22 February the Chief Secretary to the Treasury , Peter Rees , had minuted the Prime Minister saying that the Chancellor and he had come to the conclusion that the Government should aim to save £2 billion from the social security review by 1987–8 .
26 But whereas he had come to the conclusion by the beginning of 1936 that Mussolini was probably not the man to play this game , he remained cautiously optimistic that Hitler might be .
27 Before he expected , his feet met blocks of stone , and he realised that he had come to the edge of the great sprawling tip of the infill .
28 He had come to the Borinage as his parents ' representative , dressed correctly in the approved manner , his accents refined , and ‘ showed in his appearance all the characteristics of Dutch cleanliness . ’
29 He had come to the corner , and turned it ; and beheld the carriages .
30 He had come to the place where God was but had not encountered the ineffable reality itself .
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