Example sentences of "they come [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 They came for the first lot for nine months , then they went back .
2 They came to the second door .
3 By the time they came to the 16th Chris was flagging , after pulling the heavy trolley for fifteen holes through the wind and rain .
4 Within a few yards of the bank on which they had spent the uneasy night they came across the first sign of man .
5 Three miles below the village they came upon the first of the hallowed plantations of Father Noah .
6 So when they come across the first element of mystery which they can not understand , they conclude that Christianity is not rational after all .
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