Example sentences of "they come [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They came for a weekend just before we left Starlings . ’ |
| 2 | They came for a draw and got it . |
| 3 | But in latter days they came with a tank and they put it out and put it in a trailer you see but I just worked with bags when it was the first of it . |
| 4 | They came with a boat , and did all their shopping in Tobermory , so we did not see much of them at all . ’ |
| 5 | Marching on that night , suffering terribly from thirst , they came on a track that was not marked on their maps but was used by vehicles . |
| 6 | Next morning they sighted U-593 and attacked her ; about midday they came on a fleet of French trawlers but were satisfied they carried no German radio operators . |
| 7 | A few miles further down the road they came on a group of Italians with rifles waving at them to stop , obviously having been alerted by the German post . |
| 8 | They came as a lightning surprise to them when two hundred American planes came over the city clearly visible in the cloudless sky , the Italians kept separating in two camps because of fascist and non- fascist fleet ran around frantically trying to get fog machines working , trying to obscure the target but the fog prevented warships in the harbour for putting up an effective anti-aircraft barrage . |
| 9 | There would have been no question whether the children would come ; they came as a matter of course and ‘ right behaviour ’ . |
| 10 | At last they came to a clearing , where Vic headed for a mossy log . |
| 11 | They came to a clearing and Nicky slumped on to the trunk of a felled tree , shaded by the overhanging branches that almost covered the space it had made . |
| 12 | Next they came to a clearing in the forest where they saw a great flock of doves . |
| 13 | Anabelle and Uncle Alfred left the turtle and hurried along the bank of the canal until they came to a hole in the ground , where they stopped . |
| 14 | Presently they came to a stone wall , beyond which was a huge symmetrical mound . |
| 15 | They came to a kitchen with a spacious drawing room beyond at the front of the house . |
| 16 | But they came to a working arrangement with her — ‘ and the price they exacted from her was this up-front crusading thing about AIDS . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Whoa there , lass , ’ said Jake as they came to a halt . |
| 18 | What is more , the old iron trucks with their armour plating are still lying rusting beside the old Kubri road just where they came to a halt in 1948 , the wheels stripped of their tyres but their iron bullet shields still intact . |
| 19 | They came to a halt at a barrier , assuming it was manned by a few nervous Italians . |
| 20 | Tom squeezed on the reins and they came to a halt . |
| 21 | They came to a halt at a busy road crossing . |
| 22 | They came to a halt before the doors of the Manse and grooms ran out to take their horses , unarmoured Hearthwares helping their comrades from the saddle . |
| 23 | They came to a halt outside the front door flanked by huge stone urns overflowing with red geraniums . |
| 24 | ‘ About this afternoon , ’ she said again , as they came to a halt outside the pillared portico of her hotel . |
| 25 | It took the three of them over an hour to reach the bottom of the slope , where they came to a halt . |
| 26 | They came to a head in 1562 at the Council of Trent , reconvened after a ten-year break . |
| 27 | They came to a pub which was low and dark and already starting to get crowded . |
| 28 | In the darkness , arms around each other , they came to a decision , and though the decision was a relief for Chrissie in terms of her two kids , it was a sad one for the two adults . |
| 29 | They came to a stop . |
| 30 | After a couple of hundred yards they came to a ristorante . |