Example sentences of "we come [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think it might even be further away than we came on the Long Drive , ’ said Masklin quietly . |
| 2 | ‘ The memory will always be with me of those lads ' faces , even though at the time I was only twenty years old myself , to see them sat on the floor of the aircraft , and some of the trying to negotiate the main spar , and the cheers and tears when we came over the white cliffs of England . |
| 3 | Cos , they sold out the , that 's all now and I think came from Yarmouth , they used , they used to have a big place at Yarmouth and we came through the other week and er I see their sheds are nearly all empty now , there . |
| 4 | After 15 minutes we came to the comforting realisation that the phone had come unplugged from its socket . |
| 5 | Eventually we came to the Old Mill area where there were no railings at the waterside , making the mill pond quite a frightening place for small children . |
| 6 | But when we came to the Old Town , the Marshal and Sapt moved nearer to my horse , and I could see that they were afraid for me . |
| 7 | When we came to the German trenches there was nothing to see . |
| 8 | We look like we came to the wrong party — like we brought our adopted son to his friend 's birthday , and called at the wrong address . |
| 9 | But when we came into the straight again he was always beside me , running , panting , straining to get ahead just as I was . |
| 10 | As we came into the front hall I heard Kevin yelling up the stairs , ‘ Stop the hammering ! |
| 11 | You know when we came in the other day , you came to see the sofa ? |
| 12 | As we came upon the moving picture with its ability not only to entertain us but also to analyse what we could not easily see with the unaided eye , we began to recognize that we had new tools for discovery ; we now knew exactly how a horse used its feet in galloping , what an explosion was like in slow motion , what a street looked like to the condensed eye of the time-lapse camera . |
| 13 | Once the New Year festivities are out of the way , we expect that sales will pick up significantly and continue to improve as we come into the traditional pre-spring buying season . ’ |
| 14 | Finally , we come to the new county of Mid-Glamorgan , which inherited as its institution of higher education the Glamorgan Polytechnic , at Treforest , Pontypridd . |
| 15 | In summary , we come to the following conclusion : |
| 16 | Now we come to the current account — the year-by-year income and expenditure on which the holding will succeed or fail . |
| 17 | Now we come to the serious part of this letter . |
| 18 | This paradox about being able to predict one 's actions is closely related to the problem I mentioned earlier : Will the ultimate theory determine that we come to the right conclusions about the ultimate theory ? |
| 19 | It is only at this point that we come to the central theme , the reason why all those who wish to understand the problem of drugs in sport should read this book . |
| 20 | The truth is that it is this party and this Government who have consistently sought to defend employees and trade union members over the past 12 years , and that is what the country will bear in mind when we come to the general election . |
| 21 | But when we come to the interpersonal function , we not only have to account for the literary work itself as a discourse between author and reader , but we have to reckon with the phenomenon of " embedded discourse " : the occurrence of discourse within discourse , as when the author reports dialogue between fictional characters . |
| 22 | Finally , we come to the managerial labour market constraint . |
| 23 | Given that we have victims , we come to the delicate matter of breeding . |
| 24 | ‘ So , now we come to the crucial bit . |
| 25 | Now we come to the ironical side of it all . |
| 26 | We come to the living world with senses adapted to primate life , and we may miss things that are too fast , too slow , too big or too small . |
| 27 | As we come to the great season of Christmas , throughout the country schools and churches have been celebrating with their festivals , especially those of nine lessons and carols . |
| 28 | Now if you think you have been pleasant and helpful , you 've shared things with somebody , if they asked you a question you did n't bang them on the head , you helped , sign it now we come to the real sixty thousand point question , are you ready for this ? |
| 29 | I 'm a creature of habit — in the way I have my hair cut , the suits I wear , the eternal brown boots that I get ribbed about and which are fleetingly seen by the viewers at the end of the programme as we come to the closing headlines . |
| 30 | So doing , we come to the unanimous view that the dismissal was unfair . ’ |