Example sentences of "came [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah oh yes he oh and he was erm being better educated than the majority of people in the Pleck he used to stand outside the Brown Lion to read the newspaper out to them cos they could n't read , and he attended all the weddings , all the funerals and er made the wills out and he almost was the father confessor for the Pleck , and when the old steam tram came off the lines down in the Pleck , when there was a steam train coming through there , he was the man who put it on the rails again . |
| 2 | No , last week you probably would have got the little joining letter with map , but you probably talked to people in the branch who may have been there , or you talked to your manager , or you picked up the phone and said , how do I get here , you may have even got the map out if you were driving , to actually see what junction you came off the motorways and things like that . |
| 3 | Medieval travellers usually had to pick a way over boggy ground as they came off the hills . |
| 4 | And that was where er , a train came off the railways when it hit a van on |
| 5 | The ball came off the studs on his boot . |
| 6 | It is astonishing to think that in the forty-odd years after the invention of printing , no fewer than ninety-four editions came off the presses of Europe ; and that for four centuries there has been almost no year in which a new edition has not appeared in England . |
| 7 | Yeah , erm I er , I 'd given up erm about se seven weeks ago , and I was told that it was an anti-depressant and when I came off the cigarettes it was just terrible ! |
| 8 | The only problem was the stitch each side of the tucked stitch came off the needles at the same time . |
| 9 | The evening light came through the skylights high overhead , glossing the scurfy backs , the sores , the scabby manes , and a soft echo came back from the walls of the vast , bare concrete building of animal content , feeding . |
| 10 | Howe said : ‘ Seventy-five per cent of that Arsenal team came through the ranks and the percentage is the same at Chelsea now . |
| 11 | At once the officers of the Kha-Khan 's guard came through the ranks of the troopers to Artai 's side . |
| 12 | A host of current Irish League stars who came through the ranks will line up in a special BB challenge match . |
| 13 | ‘ Nicky paced herself and came through the ranks . |
| 14 | It 's taken the club a couple of years to get its youth policy back on track , but all the signs now suggest that the current crop of teenagers is the most promising since John Robertson , Gary Mackay and David Bowman came through the ranks in the early Eighties . |
| 15 | A group of lesser Khans stood muttering in one corner of the room , and when Alexei came through the hangings which provided access to the bedchamber they fell guiltily silent . |
| 16 | Fred 's voice came through the headphones to her and she glanced towards the control-room , barely seeing the figures clustered behind the glass for the tears clouding her eyes . |
| 17 | A subdued glow came through the curtains of the window on his left . |
| 18 | As the engine caught again Travis came through the curtains , his face pale and tense . |
| 19 | It was appalling carnage that went on , and came through the doors of this hospital . ’ |
| 20 | Not wanting anyone to see her dress from behind — the hem had come undone and she was n't wearing stockings — she had hung back as they came through the doors of the Grill Room . |
| 21 | Only when he came through the trees and round the small hill that sheltered the house , only then did he see the soldiers who had camped in the house and the grounds . |
| 22 | One day two humans came through the trees . |
| 23 | It was about noon when I came through the trees out on to the shingle of the beach with the chapel . |
| 24 | Anthony came through the corridors and say is Elizabeth there and was on |
| 25 | But Jay 's spine became electric as Pergolese 's Stabat Mater came through the speakers sure as it had filled the dusk of her dream . |
| 26 | — and the fleas hopped , and the smell came through the walls . |
| 27 | A very frustrated Carrick supporter Perhaps if a few more ‘ frustrated supporters ’ came through the turnstiles on a Saturday the problem would n't exist . |
| 28 | In the Senate in the same year 9 per cent of funding came through the parties , 62 per cent from individual contributions and 19 per cent through political action committees . |
| 29 | He came through the bushes so I in his head . |
| 30 | Another dramatic instance of historical déjà vu came during the miners ' strike , when it was reported that an attack had been made on the police station in Malby , South Yorkshire , scene of an anti-police riot a century earlier when the ‘ new police ’ first arrived there . |