Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 After all the years in which we pressed British Rail to open the station and the bus company to allow buses to come down into Portlethen village , when the station was reopened , the bus companies suddenly decided that buses would come down off the main road and start a service to compete with British Rail .
2 Well he can er , he can come down to the original reduced figure .
3 I make no impression on it and all the time I am afraid that its flapping tail will come down on the taut line and snap it like a dry twig .
4 ‘ But why should he come down in the dead of night ? ’
5 Well unfortunately if , if I did have a delivery of coal it would come in through the other entrance .
6 ‘ Make foreign things work for China ’ , ran one slogan but it recognised that ‘ flies and pests ’ would come in through the open door as well as fresh air to revitalise the stuffy atmosphere in China .
7 ‘ Did you see him come in through the back door ? ’
8 And would be seriously undermined by any proposed road that will come in on the western side .
9 Various sidings , er and the trains from would come in to the left hand side of the top platform , erm and er would er go over here and and cut back and go out from this er this side .
10 So you would like come in to the main entrance and then
11 Just turn everything up , ’ and I said to the drummer , ‘ Get out there and start drumming the intro to Hot For Teacher and I 'll come in at the appropriate moment . ’
12 There 's been talk of seventeen and a half per cent being added to food , to public transport and to books and its now believed that VAT on domestic fuel , which was to have been introduced in stages may come in at the full rate in the spring .
13 As a thought struck him he dropped on to his hunkers again and whispered quickly , ‘ They could come in by the far gate and force their way into the back of the crees : they 're only planked . ’
14 After a long time I heard him get up and come over to the long wall , near to where I was sitting listlessly in the arm-chair .
15 There are some aspects of our personalities which may not come over in the brief span of an interview , but which those close to us know only too well .
16 The collar did n't come off until the following day .
17 We sat on the bench and watched the sun come up above the eastern ridge and the mist clear like drifting smoke .
18 Pleat had the chance to follow the same path trod by Terry Venables at Tottenham but could n't come up with the necessary funds for a stake in the struggling First Division outfit .
19 Kohler said : ‘ I offered David the chance to come in with me in a partnership but unfortunately he could n't come up with the necessary amount . ’
20 It is expected that the Home Office will come up with the other half of the sum .
21 Perhaps John Major , already well into the habit of stealing Labour 's clothes , will come up with the right formula .
22 ‘ So you think Vargas will come up with the right information ? ’
23 Mr McEd was acting pretty cagey about it for one thing and , when pressed , would only come up with the reassuring phrases : ‘ Every cloud has a silver lining Ed … ’ or ‘ Do n't worry son , you father 's not such an old fool as he looks …
24 Asked to paint a mental picture of the typical French intellectual , most people could come up with the significant details .
25 You , dear Ruth , with your successful company , your beauty , your intelligence , how could you let your sensibility come up with the very idea that Maria Luisa 's baby is mine ? ’
26 Saturday 's 2-1 win was Sunderland 's third in succession and Crosby said : ‘ We can still come up on the blind side .
27 Although one of the most interesting objects in the sale , it was not considered sufficiently rare — or Bavarian — to be among the items withdrawn from the sale at the instigation of the Bavarian State , which at the time of writing was still negotiating with Fürstin Gloria over what exactly will still come up in the future Regensburg sale .
28 The table provided in the Library note projects that we shall not come up against the upper ceiling of the present capacity in either this or the next financial year .
29 Apart from Gatting , who is seen as a near-certainty for England 's winder tour of India , others who may come back into the international reckoning are Chris Broad , Alan Wells , Matthew Maynard and John Emburey , while Neil Foster ( another South African tourist ) might have been considered for the winter tour but for a knee injury which kept him out of the Essex side for the last part of the season .
30 Now if they 're multiplied or divided then you ca n't say , Oh well I 'll just take this bit and do that and then I 'll come back for the other one .
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