Example sentences of "come [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Herbert also penned the verses which have come to sum up the general fate of such investigations : |
| 2 | After that , you can expect Leeds mail to come surging down the wires to your computer every day of the week , and aim to join in the talk whenever you can . |
| 3 | As I recall , I had conveyed a plea to Miss Kenton for assistance — via a messenger , naturally — and had left M. Dupont sitting in the billiard room awaiting his nurse , when the first footman had come hurrying down the staircase in some distress to inform me that my father had been taken ill upstairs . |
| 4 | But in the century since we have come to understand better the structure of natural language , and have made some conceptual progress in the philosophy of language . |
| 5 | He sat still and his words seemed to come crawling up the sunlight , over the grass . |
| 6 | Suddenly the night had erupted into a confusion of fire , noise and light , as first the house had erupted in flames and then five heavy vehicles had come roaring up the twisting driveway , headlights blazing . |
| 7 | He has only come to appreciate properly the importance of loving discipline and the need for obedience since he and Maggie have had children themselves . |
| 8 | It is a devastating blow to the latest Arab League peace plan , which — with parliament 's adoption of political and constitutional reforms and the election of the new president — had come to embody perhaps the most serious attempt of its kind to end the 14 ½-year war . |
| 9 | It is a devastating blow to the latest Arab League peace plan , which — with parliament 's adoption of political and constitutional reforms and the election of the new president — had come to embody perhaps the most serious attempt of its kind to end the 14 ½-year war . |
| 10 | At any rate , Barth himself was to come to make exactly the opposite criticism of the book , which he later used to call ‘ my well-known false start ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ According to this girl , ’ says Charles , ‘ great avalanches are going to come sliding down the mountains , burying people by the dozen . ’ |
| 12 | Writers in this tradition emphasize that there has been an historical change in the cultural and social meaning of the term ‘ family ’ over time , so that it has come to mean essentially the unit based on marriage and parenthood , with a secondary role only accorded to other kin relationships . |
| 13 | And there was perhaps not so much to laugh at in that ; for by North 's trial , two and a half years after the breaking of the scandal , the overwhelming majority of Americans had come to feel much the same way . |
| 14 | All these questions came tumbling out the moment she entered my room a couple of days later . |
| 15 | After the cab had departed he 'd returned to the body search ; a couple of rough-looking kids came sneaking up the alley for purposes unknown , but a long , low growl from the shadows sent them running . |
| 16 | We came to see how the prison is run . |
| 17 | The familiar whisky-edged voice came bellowing down the line , and she grinned fondly . |
| 18 | He and Mrs Taylor came tearing down the yard to see what was up . |
| 19 | In Whitehall , three words came to sum up the appointments policy . |
| 20 | She came to know instinctively the kind of candid , vivid anecdote that found favour with him , the sort of thing that made him chuckle with delight , and sometimes scribble it down in a note-book . |
| 21 | No wonder , then , that when he came to write up the experience in Surprised by Joy he should have been so insistent that his father 's last illness and death ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 22 | These notes were invaluable when I came to write up the results of the study . |
| 23 | Twice , when Meredith ordered ‘ Two steps stage left ’ and Geoffrey moved to the right , Meredith came bounding down the centre aisle shouting ‘ Left , left , ducky ’ and leapt onto the apron to seize him by the shoulders and shove him into place . |
| 24 | Straw — came rocketing down the line . |
| 25 | A couple more members of the gang came scrambling down the companionway ladder . |
| 26 | The four men looked up as he came scrambling down the steep bank . |
| 27 | Firstly , official collections came to supersede entirely the old private ones and , secondly , from these four collections ( together with one of Innocent 's successor , Pope Honorius III ) the second great compendium of canon law came to be formed . |
| 28 | Kalchu came rushing up the notched-pole ladder . |
| 29 | Peace arbitrators thus came to epitomize not the " representative " but the " personal " or the " ministerial " approach to the management of the countryside . |
| 30 | The firemen who came to put out the fire had a narrow escape when the roof fell in as they were working inside the building . |