Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | So th th th the , the outline agrarian law is simply a means of ensuring that everybody will come up to a middle peasant status . |
| 32 | But they will come up against a different side this time . ’ |
| 33 | so I thought you were going to cos you did n't come back for a long time . |
| 34 | ‘ I never seen anybody come back for a second dose of the blue , ’ said a man behind her , for all the world as though he were safe reminiscing in some bar of his old age . |
| 35 | ‘ If Steve does n't come back for a few days I 'll probably have to go into Palma and see the airlines and the tourist board myself . ’ |
| 36 | Gladys wo n't ever come back for a little girl will it ? |
| 37 | For fuck 's sake Dawn you 'd come back to a fucking siege . |
| 38 | It should be thrown out and the electorate should make their views known at a general election so that the Government can come back with a better Bill at a later stage . ’ |
| 39 | ‘ Will you come back with a little rum in about ten minutes … ? ’ |
| 40 | ‘ If Prost wants to be called champion for a fourth time he should come back in a sporting way . |
| 41 | Because even as you die you know that you will come back in a different hat . |
| 42 | Mummy will come back in a few minutes , wo n't she , for Susie ? ’ |
| 43 | Grant , the people could come back in a few minutes |
| 44 | They were kept waiting for just a couple of minutes — ‘ While Mr Magill completes a call ’ in a cool-warm windowless reception area soundproofed so that even the loudest complaint about a bill would come out as a hushed croak then ushered through into an office that was almost straight from Charles Dickens . |
| 45 | ‘ It is , of course , no accident , ’ he said out loud , testing to see if the words would come out on a printed page in a bound volume , ‘ that redundant theological speculation about the death of God should run parallel with an equally tedious literary preoccupation with the death of the novel . ’ |
| 46 | Hewlett-Packard will also come out with a new revision of its HP/UX operating system , tarted up with some additional commercial and technical functionality . |
| 47 | He told the Governor that ‘ Rance must come out with a new policy , with proposals that go beyond the White paper [ of May 1945 ] . |
| 48 | From time to time , Patrick would come out with a forthright remark about something we were n't actually discussing . |
| 49 | ‘ I 'm pleased , ’ says Richard , ‘ that we 've proved that you can come out with a silly record and it does n't have to be your only silly record . |
| 50 | You can come out of a nice pub and go into another bad 'un . |
| 51 | When it had been screened you 'd got to be in there and the malted barley would come out of a big hole just big enough to get a comb-sack through ; and it used to run into a big heap ; and you 'd got to be inside there a-throwing on it back so it did n't bung up the hole . |
| 52 | ‘ I promise you , ’ she says , ‘ there is n't a woman who does n't come out of a bad divorce thinking the same thing . ’ |
| 53 | They looked as if they 'd come out of a medieval illustration . |
| 54 | So it is that when Mr Major explains that he has , by devaluing the pound , given British industry an exceptional chance to improve its exports , he insists that ‘ this did not come about as a deliberate act of policy ’ . |
| 55 | The plant — hospitals , equipment , surgeries — being state-owned and state-administered , those changes do not come about by a gradual process made up of an infinite number of individual decisions : they happen in lurches , of which the most visible form is not the provision of new plant but the discontinuance of old plant . |