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

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1 The gayer , shorter girls would come on for a general dance to the Gavotte .
2 Dyspnoea ; they wake from sleep with a sense of suffocation , a sense of choking which can come on in the first sleep , a sense of strangulation when lying and especially when anything is around the neck ; neck is very sensitive to touch .
3 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 .
4 The company is also predicting European prices will come down to the same level as in the US .
5 It 'll come down to the same thing . ’
6 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 .
7 When that fury finally broke through , the hand of retribution would come down with the strongest power in the world behind it .
8 Well unfortunately if , if I did have a delivery of coal it would come in through the other entrance .
9 ‘ 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 .
10 ‘ Did you see him come in through the back door ? ’
11 You add up all the bills you know will come in over the next year — plus a bit more for contingencies — and divide by twelve .
12 At the present pace of progress in Brussels , similar changes throughout the EC may not come in for a dozen years or more , and British farmers fear that they will lose business while waiting for European competitors to catch up .
13 Do you think I might come in for a few minutes and talk to you about Matilda ? ’
14 If we 're looking at the question of services coming together to deal with the emergency erm obviously I suppose the army and that will come in on a voluntary basis which but it might be necessary to see where someone could be authority to coordinate the services and bring it whatever is required .
15 And would be seriously undermined by any proposed road that will come in on the western side .
16 Other potential candidates , who were remaining loyal to Ted but who it was known would come in on the second ballot if Ted were defeated , were quietly being accused of cowardice by the Neave camp .
17 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 .
18 So you would like come in to the main entrance and then
19 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 . ’
20 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 .
21 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 . ’
22 I 've brought him , I 've brought him at half five , because I was at the bus stop , leaning on the lamp-post and it was about twenty five past , and then he did n't come along to the next stop by and it got to twenty five
23 ‘ Well , I 'll come along for a little while to the bonfire , but do n't accept for me later .
24 The structure of courses is flexible and if you do n't fancy multi-activity then you can come along on a specialist week concentrating on one sport .
25 Outside of those times , there is a night-line which is on , so any calls that come into the press outside of those times will come through on a special number which will ring and anybody can pick up .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 Or Jagger would come over from the next hotel and we 'd have late night ‘ looning ’ sessions , and then Angie and I would go off again with Zowie .
29 Even if I went onstage and did a direct rip-off of Jagger or Bowie it would never come off as a complete copy because Blondie is a girl . ’
30 They 'll all come off in the first wash .
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