Example sentences of "[vb past] to come [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a moment I felt better , then my face chanced to come alongside the face of a three-foot-high king in a crown — I 'd been pushing down hard on the bishop 's corpse memory , now he reared up again … |
| 2 | They agreed to come to the negotiating table and Robert Carnwath , with their counsel , drafted terms of agreement under which a settlement could be worked out . |
| 3 | I went to see a debt counsellor and she agreed to come to the bank with me . |
| 4 | Italy meanwhile , prompted by a young radical called Benito Mussolini , negotiated to come into the war on the side of the Allies . |
| 5 | In April a restlessness seemed to come into the air as the village began to throw off the lethargy of winter . |
| 6 | A high-pitched noise that seemed to come from the head of the stairs . |
| 7 | With a groan that seemed to come from the bottom of the earth , Luke reached down and tore away the lacy silk that covered her . |
| 8 | The first two nights passed uneventfully , but on the third night , Ted heard the sound of heavy breathing which seemed to come from the armchair . |
| 9 | The full impact of it seemed to come from the roof , and was so strong that she jerked up in bed . |
| 10 | Once more Margaret Seymour-Strachey 's words seemed to come from the front of her head , and to be as contradictory as words usually are when they do n't represent what one is really thinking about . |
| 11 | It seemed to come from the Market Cross . |
| 12 | Now he heard a low whistling sound which seemed to come from the rear of the box . |
| 13 | The voice always seemed to come from the shadows or from somewhere just aside from where he was looking ; and usually the words did n't make any sense , and they passed through his mind so quickly that they 'd gone before he could reach for them . |
| 14 | One day I happened to come across the work of the Italian still-life painter Giorgio Morandi . |
| 15 | It was like watching a film or a play and you 're totally caught up in what 's going on and you 're taken out of yourself and everything suddenly has colour and meaning and magic and you forget that outside the rain 's tippling down and tomorrow 's homework has n't been done and you 've got to wash the car to pay Dad back for the money you borrowed to come to the film because you were skint till the end of next week . |
| 16 | The thermal tide may also be responsible for dim ultraviolet radiation observed to come from the middle of the night hemisphere . |
| 17 | In his speech Kozyrev had accused Western powers of interfering in the former Soviet Union , claimed the right to use military action in the area , and threatened to come to the aid of Serbia . |
| 18 | Moderation and reasonableness began to come to the fore . |
| 19 | But when the long hard Chinese winter was nearly over , the villagers began to come to the house of Dai Huang . |
| 20 | Obviously he was then lucky that a lot of outstanding players began to come into the team at the same period , men like Richards , Greenidge , Roberts , Holding , Croft , Garner , and he had material of the highest class on which to work . |
| 21 | Nikos started to come into the room , stopped and withdrew unobserved . |
| 22 | She moved violently in her sleep — and started to come to the surface of that sleep , just as , outside the hotel , there was a sudden screech of tyres on tarmac as brakes were slammed on . |
| 23 | However , as the results of the first inspections started to come in the seriousness of the problem was realised and the US authorities eventually went so far as to call for the use of specially made ultrasonic probes for detecting cracks round the fastener holes . |
| 24 | As Jake started to come round the desk towards her , she turned away , averting her eyes . |
| 25 | He decided to come to the point . |
| 26 | Robert decided to come to the point . |
| 27 | I went on the road when I was 19 , I needed to come off the road so I knew who I was . |
| 28 | A noxious sewage-type smell — thought to come from the boat 's toilet system — had engulfed their cabin , which was locked from the inside . |
| 29 | Then , as he prodded the mash with a fork , he appeared to come to the surface . |
| 30 | By stereophonic means a situation was created such that each ear heard the same two virtually simultaneous messages but , due to a very small difference in the time of arrival of a given stimulus at the two ears , one message appeared to come from the subject 's left while the other appeared to come from the right . |