Example sentences of "[vb past] come [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three officers watched him , but none tried to come close . |
| 2 | And then the picture itself seemed to come alive . ’ |
| 3 | The table creaked and seemed to come alive , and the taps followed . |
| 4 | Her long blonde hair seemed to come alive in the sunlight which gave it golden highlights . |
| 5 | At once that part of the map seemed to come alive ; was overlaid with a fine web of brilliant gold , the nodes of which sparkled in the overhead light . |
| 6 | John 's face seemed to come alive and his spirit escaped the prison of the photograph releasing brief images of happy times ; John dancing along the pavement , John tilting his head back to exhale smoke from a cigarette , John talking to a cuddly toy in a supermarket and making me laugh . |
| 7 | as if in response , Merrill 's own face seemed to come alive , and she felt her mouth answer that smile . |
| 8 | At the last moment Wynne-Jones seemed to come alive . |
| 9 | His skin , combined with the slippery texture of the soap , seemed to come alive under her hands . |
| 10 | As the BMW finally drove away they all let go at once , releasing an answering roar that seemed to come all the way from her sex and anus , rippling up her spine and out of her gaping mouth . |
| 11 | Creggan could not rest or sleep , for out of the racing seas beneath their stance seemed to come troubled memories and images of a place where he once was , and eagles he once knew . |
| 12 | PM told to come clean over claim of sell-off hitlist |
| 13 | in the second half Wimbledon threatened to run away with it but Judge saw them off more than once and then United came good again with a late charge … |
| 14 | The equaliser Darlington 's endeavour deserved came two minutes before the break . |
| 15 | The first time I played this competition my team happened to come first . |
| 16 | Although the immediate effects were small , the ultimate consequences were immense : Through the door which the Reform Act opened came important social and administrative reforms . |
| 17 | Despite my luck with the Harlequin ducks the Barrow 's goldeneyes declined to come close enough and I had still not got a good shot when , with reluctance , we left Mýatn . |
| 18 | They arranged to come that way again next Sunday and then turned their horses eastwards for the long ride home . |
| 19 | The fading light gave way in a matter of seconds to a moist , velvet blackness , as if a curtain had been drawn swiftly across the sky , and the shadows beyond the glow of the hurricane lamps immediately began to come alive with the shrill vibrations of the jungle night . |
| 20 | The threw back the bedclothes , shed her clinging nightgown and stood under a cool shower until she began to come alive . |
| 21 | His head came down again , and suddenly , as her whole body started to come alive , Leith found she was having to fight herself as well as him . |
| 22 | Others say that Tethlis grasped the Sword of Khaine and that it writhed in his grip and started to come free , and that the king was cut down by his own bodyguard who feared the consequences of Aenarion 's fatal weapon being unleashed once more upon the world . |
| 23 | But the tears started to come hard and fast . |
| 24 | I decided to come this way because I wanted you to see the courtyard by moonlight . ’ |
| 25 | It started coming freezing |
| 26 | and the letters started coming thick and fast |
| 27 | Yes I , after I lost my daughter I had to go into erm , into the factory to make aeroplane pieces at Burnt Mill cos I was so bad with my nerves after I lost her , er just afternoons I had to go and then I was taken ill I could n't do it , well then after my erm , I got my family off to school I took a part time job in erm one of the factories making tea in the mornings for the office and coffees and that for the office and then in the afternoons I used to do the tea as well , I used to cycle there , I quite enjoyed it until my right hip started coming bad then I had to pack it in , but I was in there , I was there for about four years and I thoroughly enjoyed it you know making tea and that , I did n't have to take it round only collect the money to go round and collect the money , but used to have to put the trolley outside and they used to come and get their tea each one , of which they knew which was their mugs and cups ha , you know , I , I thoroughly enjoyed that job , really great |
| 28 | The high cost of the meeting , though , kept away many bright young people , and the older established scientists who did come presented familiar work . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , I did come early to check on Faye , ’ he admitted . |
| 30 | The Tories did come near to letting Neil Kinnock steal the election from us , but if the party either blames it all on Chris Patten or just forgets the matter as a bad dream , it would not deserve to win next time . |