Example sentences of "comes [adv] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jettisoning Shakespeare , and talking in a ludicrous mixture of Italian and heavily accented English , he comes on as a hilarious parody of a libidinous Latin , pinching handbags from the audience , flogging dodgy cassette tapes and offering healing laughter after all the grief of the earlier acts . |
| 2 | He comes on like a Greek god and claims credit for fixing the weather . |
| 3 | Sometimes , when he thought he might die , as Eileen had died , some deep and insatiable curiosity about life and living in him , some craving to take with him a deeper knowledge of women and their essence made him long to lie in love with her , to taste the sweetness of her mystery , to see the world just once from a vantage point where the lost and lonely flesh that is man and woman comes together in a healing synthesis . |
| 4 | The last three months particularly are charged with electricity — and you are suddenly involved both in the throes of final productions and the ‘ business ’ of acting ; it all comes together in a thrilling rush , and the time goes quickly . |
| 5 | The entry level 386SX with 2MB RAM comes in at a mere £499 . |
| 6 | As a stake in society comes in at a higher cost , the old certainties begin to wither . |
| 7 | When sh , Sarah comes in with a long skirt on he , he goes up |
| 8 | British Rail comes in for a fair bit of stick from travellers who would heartily support the loud speaker announcement heard by Philip White . |
| 9 | Power comes in via an external mains adaptor , but watch out — only the supplied adaptor will do the job . |
| 10 | Then it comes in like a tingling feeling . |
| 11 | ‘ … unfortunately , ’ Michele went on , ‘ I have n't a clue as to where Lucia 's secret hiding-place might be , so it comes down to a straightforward search . ’ |
| 12 | The hon. Member for Dundee , East called on us to promise a review , but that comes down to a running review and immediate flexibility . |
| 13 | And it comes down to a basic difference of approach to this . |
| 14 | The concrete spillway below the Loch Add reservoir comes down to a stepped slope above the confluence of several small burns draining nearby slopes . |
| 15 | Two miles further on , the A.890 from Loch Carron comes down to an improved junction . |
| 16 | But when a woman comes along with a superior set of academic qualifications and a superior status and treats you like shit , then that 's a different matter . |
| 17 | The saucer drops between the towers , flies low over strangely deserted streets and comes suddenly to a grinding halt . |
| 18 | It could illustrate that symbolic episode , common to fairy-tales and Gothic novels , in which the heroine , lost in a dark wood , comes suddenly upon a sunlit clearing . |
| 19 | This is appropriate , for the story that the letters not so much tell as adumbrate comes through with a wistful fragrance that is very affecting if one reads slowly . |
| 20 | ‘ Echo ’ is a useful word , for that in a way is what the poem 's metric is based on ; there is no immediate similarity of stanza-form to Bilbo 's song , but once again the ‘ elvish ’ idea of poetry comes through in an unexpected subtlety . |
| 21 | When Mr Major waxes philosophical , he comes over as a strange mix of nostalgia and modernism . |
| 22 | ‘ The strong prejudice against only children comes over as a clear reason for having at least two , ’ she says . |
| 23 | Well I know it is and er I hope it comes over in a genuine way . |
| 24 | The benefits of the balancing , bouncing and clambering are that your body is relaxed instead of recital-rigid and the voice comes over in a strong way . |
| 25 | In an uproarious performance , Finney comes over like a Mancunian Tigger , insufferably bouncy and crassly insensitive . |
| 26 | The service block comes off at a right angle at the back and forms a sort of court where you arrive . |
| 27 | This argument comes close to a constitutional paradox — that people who are protesting against the fairness of the political system may find themselves convicted of serious offences because their mode of protest is a realistic one . |
| 28 | The rampant sexism of the climbing and walking fraternity over the last 50 years has left a whole generation of older women with the legacy of being expected to have the white-bearded , old sod 's tea ready for him on the table when he comes home from a fabulous day out on the hills . |
| 29 | When Sombro comes home after a long excursion , he 's usually very thin , in poor shape and a bit battered and bruised . |
| 30 | The formation of planetary systems and the size and chemical composition of each member are , then , remarkably regular : given a sun-sized star a computer generally comes up with a similar range of planets to that in the solar system , with small rocky planets closest to the star and the large gaseous ones further out ( due to the effects of gravity , orbits would later space themselves out along the lines of our own solar system ) . |