Example sentences of "he come [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had he come to the wrong crossroads ? |
| 2 | He came down the tiny steps at the side of the stage and sat beside Zach . |
| 3 | When he came into the Provincial 's small executive team under managing director in June 1990 life was tough for the industry as a whole after the storms and other claims-raising disasters . |
| 4 | IAN WOOSNAM , so out of form coming into the Masters , nevertheless began to put up an heroic defence at Augusta National yesterday and was within a stroke of the lead as he came into the finishing holes in his second round . |
| 5 | Dr Nolan looked deadbeat as he came into the little bedroom at Milltown . |
| 6 | Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons . |
| 7 | But he came to the front bench late , as Secretary of State for Employment from 1974 to 1976 , and leader of the House of Commons from 1976 to 1979 . |
| 8 | As he gave out his text , his voice rose like a steam of rich distilled perfumes , ’ and when he came to the two last words , which he pronounced loud , deep , and distinct , it seemed to me , who was then young , as if the sounds had echoed from the bottom of the human heart , and as if that prayer might have floated in solemn silence through the universe . |
| 9 | He ran on until he came to the tall reeds . |
| 10 | Ian pressed on down the passage , down two steps , until he came to the small wooden door in the fabric . |
| 11 | He came to the final special award , and then read out my name . |
| 12 | He slowed as he came to the first of the two rows , leaning across the dashboard in order to be able to see up the slope . |
| 13 | Martin walked carefully along a narrow path that would tortuously between ancient graves and heavy , ornate tombstones until he came to the first of the family plots . |
| 14 | He sorted through Blanche 's things deliberately , one by one , and only stopped when he came to the building-society books she had purloined and Marek 's exercise book . |
| 15 | He found a certain amount of fossil evidence that the time planes were not parallel with the lithological boundaries and he came to the general conclusion that the facies to the north are in the main younger than those to the south . |
| 16 | But instead of releasing it he began to kiss each finger in turn until he came to the pale circle on the third finger of her left hand . |
| 17 | He walked silently along the thickly carpeted floor until he came to the last cubicle . |
| 18 | Charlie ignored the order and crawled quickly forward until he came to the prostrate body of his friend . |
| 19 | I 've actually seen erm er been in a workshop as a participant where a chap who was excellent at this had what he did was while while the participants were doing some sort of an exercise he was actually making these tiny notes up in the top corner for himself so that when he when he came to the next sort of section that he wanted he 'd he 'd got he 'd got the odd notes just up there in the corner . |
| 20 | He was going like a winner when he came to the third from home , fell and broke a leg . |
| 21 | Madden got shifted from that division — you only got shifted if you were in trouble — and he came to the same division as myself . |
| 22 | He came to the same conclusion as Duncan . |
| 23 | Now he came to the youngest brother , who was living in a tiny hut in the forest with his young wife Militsa . |
| 24 | ‘ You draw good pictures , ’ said the boy , turning over the pages of the note-book till he came to the whole page drawing of a pheasant , the cock pheasant that Philip had coloured in at home . |
| 25 | And he came with the highest recommendations , from Margaret Thatcher and Helmut Kohl . ’ |
| 26 | He came up the steep Hill of Heaven on all-fours , his boots scuffing the flowers out of their holes and his fingers scrabbling . |
| 27 | First he came across the reserve trenches a few hundred yards in front of the hospital tents , known as the ‘ hotel area ’ as they were a quarter of a mile behind the front line , where each soldier spent four days without a break before being allowed four days of rest in the reserve trenches . |
| 28 | Just off Highway 83 north of Wellington , Texas , he came across the abandoned house of Mr and Mrs Sam Pritchard , who were unlucky enough to have been at home when the gangsters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker paid a call after their car had plunged off the road . |
| 29 | Within a hundred metres he came across the first tank paths , ghost-like trails that appeared to be overgrown now , ever since the Russians had pulled out and taken their exhaust-belching tanks home on low-loader trains . |
| 30 | He was educated privately at home , and never knew there were other deaf people in the world until he came across the manual alphabet in one of the publications he was reading , and out of curiosity mastered it . |