Example sentences of "we come [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After all , ’ he said , ‘ we came for the rainfall , which can hardly be a prime attraction on holiday . ’ |
| 2 | Well before we came on the flats I would imagine they was . |
| 3 | ’ We came on the name through a retired CIA man in America ; let me put it that way . ’ |
| 4 | Not knowing more than that , we had a long drive up the Conon before we came on the church — which is sited right below what we thereafter called ‘ The Conon Corbetts ’ . |
| 5 | Shortly after that we came over the top of the pass and started down towards the coast . |
| 6 | They would n't serve us at the first few joints we tried , which was n't surprising , because we came through the door yelling our head off , or trying to , in this faulty new voice of ours . |
| 7 | As we came through the gate to look.at the few new lambs |
| 8 | ‘ We came through the boathouse floor . ’ |
| 9 | There was fog as we came through the Pentland Firth on our way back to Hull . |
| 10 | Now and again we came across the signs and secret symbols of the Templar Order : huge black crosses , thinly covered with whitewash , whilst the arms and escutcheons of long dead knights still hung high on the walls . |
| 11 | We came across the line first , and that 's all that counts . |
| 12 | We came to the question of fuel oil — I was just wondering out loud , natural curiosity , I hope she thought — as to what could have caused the explosion . |
| 13 | ‘ Till we came to the sea , and then there 'd be lighted ships ready to take us across the world . ’ |
| 14 | We came to the pub . |
| 15 | Following a path eastwards through the heather , we came to the edge of the heath land , where silver birches had invaded the bracken . |
| 16 | We came to the Shirt of Nessus . |
| 17 | We saw that the storm had changed a lot of things as soon as we came to the river that marks the end of the island ; it had swollen hugely , carving immense channels out of the sand , great surging brown trenches of water streaming by and tearing lumps from the banks continually and sweeping them away . |
| 18 | At last we came to the Corridor of the Damned , the cells housing those waiting to be executed . |
| 19 | When we came to the moat , we stopped near some trees and the six men hid there with the horses . |
| 20 | So we came to the AAA Championships . |
| 21 | Since just after we came to the Manor . |
| 22 | We came to the G M B from the workers . |
| 23 | We came to the quarry to dig in , look after ourselves , live proper lives . |
| 24 | Saw all the logs of wood up , put it on a trailer it was half a mile away from the cottage , when we came to the cottage door , give a shout , they all came out one after the other , there was a chain , put it under the stairs and that was us fine for about three weeks |
| 25 | Until we came to the Furka I 'd been impressed by the Spirit R/T , surprised by the agility of its handling , the sensitivity and accuracy of its power-assisted rack-and-pinion steering , the breadth of the uninterrupted acceleration from its powerful turbocharged engine , the lightness of the controls and the quality of the gearchange . |
| 26 | Then we came to the state dining-room with its long mahogany table and rows of high-backed chairs . |
| 27 | So we came to the halt , everything worked perfectly and I was astonished how easy this all was , I rather fancy it was the one blade digging gently in and scribing a beautiful arc to port , all the time into wind ; it was the gentlest of one-wheel landings that could ever have been attained . |
| 28 | And so when we came to the negotiation process so to say , it was a stalemate . |
| 29 | As we came to the fence Aldaniti stood off far too far away , pinged it , but came down much too steep . |
| 30 | We came to the chute a few days later . |