Example sentences of "come [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And it was n't Iris who told us , though she had known for some time that it had come through the Strait shortly after the Belgrano had been sunk .
2 Well , I sat in that room and saw this fantastic-looking man come through the door and I just did n't believe it .
3 If three giants had come through the door there would have been no choice but to retreat .
4 What 'll it be like when the public come through the door ?
5 The attractions of the European tour will increase as more well-known names in British and European golf come through the pipeline .
6 ‘ She 's come through the operation very well .
7 They 've come through the hole in time .
8 He had come through the back of the coffee shop yard , through the kitchen , out onto the verandah .
9 The company 's 1991 figures , to be announced this month , are likely to confirm him as one of the few 1980s entrepreneurs to have come through the recession unscathed .
10 As soon as they had come through the hedge they saw Fiver .
11 Jesus , the Christ , is the one who has come through the water of his baptism , through the blood of his cross , and is mediated to us through the Holy Spirit .
12 The doughs were come through the machine cut into sizes certain weights moulded and the men put them in tins .
13 Stable companion Boloardo faces a tougher task in the Listed Magnolia Stakes but he has also come through the winter to the complete satisfaction of his trainer .
14 AUTUMN-drilled crops in Scotland and the north of England have come through the winter best , according to the Home-Grown Cereals Authority .
15 Her first job as a voluntary residential social worker was looking after juveniles who had ‘ come through the system of care ’ .
16 When she looked up he had come through the barrier towards her .
17 ‘ One of our most pressing problems ’ , he concluded , ‘ is how to deal with the human waste which has come through the discarding of the services of workers unable to adjust to the new requirements ’ .
18 If you think about it , the majority of bosses in the media are — not actually uneducated — but they have not by and large come through the graduate tracks .
19 An Astropath on board a barge bound on the long slow haul from Karkason to the dwarf partner star , Karka Secundus , had chanced to eavesdrop on a telepathic message from the mining world to one of those agric planets that Sagramoso had seduced , using pirates paid with power crystals as his emissaries — pirates who had made themselves scarce with their illicit starships when the crusade had come through the Warp to Karka 's Sun .
20 Ann , the daughter of Joe 's partner , was Larry 's fiance/1e , and now wants to marry Joe 's surviving son , Chris , who has come through the war unscathed .
21 He had inherited four major outlets : in New York , Paris , London and Rome , all of which had come through the war intact , all of which were in prime locations , and all of which had suffered from neglect .
22 He 's come through the game well , ’ said McCarthy .
23 Yes , your worships I wonder if I may assist the court o on behalf of er M Mrs erm Mrs er has told me that she thought at the time of the incident again was in fact , nearer to five o'clock than than , than four thirty and she was driving from Billington towards Clitheroe she had come through the traffic lights at the bottom of Accrington Road in Worley and she was proceeding along King Street in Worley er , towards towards Clitheroe and sh she has told me that at the time there was a considerable amount of traffic on the road and yo i in fact had that confirmed to you by er , my friend er the the traffic was sufficiently heavy that in fact , the the traffic travelling in the direction of Blackburn er was wai was backed up to the traffic lights as far as the zebra crossing and beyond it and so as Mrs erm was travelling towards Clitheroe her view of the children on the footpath at the opposite side of the road was obstructed by the cars that were er , travelling towards Blackburn .
24 But finally I saw one animal come through the grass to play .
25 We were downstairs , laid out like sardines under the Morrison shelter , but when this happened my Dad was up like a shot and racing up the stairs with a bucket of sand , ready to throw it over what we assumed was an incendiary bomb which had come through the roof .
26 However , the best was yet to come for The Committee lost no fans when a decent third behind Zeta 's Lad in the Thyestes Chase at Gowran Park in January before an equally encouraging third behind Wee Madge at Down Royal .
27 Want to come for the run .
28 er yes I was saying erm they only had the midwives in them days did n't they , to come for the birth and that and anyway my mother was was ill enough to have to send for a doctor .
29 Shout , they 'd shout something but er well since we 've been living up here , my mother used to give , the man used to come for the order for the grocery , the baker used to come round , the milk used to come round , they all used to come round at she 'd ha she did n't have go out for heavy loads of stuff to bring in it was all delivered , but when they started some new technique of er of ordering by computer , it 's going to come back to square one again you know , they 'll be delivering stuff in the same jolly old way hey .
30 She was the sort of woman who used to come for the weekend at home , sometimes , with a suitcase full of little black dresses for cocktails and dinner .
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