Example sentences of "comes [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And she was coming back along towards and she comes all along the dual carriageway and this car in front of her |
| 4 | If the inventive step comes only from the excluded material , then the invention is not patentable because of section 1(2) . |
| 5 | Clare Murphy , garden centre department manager , comes inside from the damp outdoors to check out a feature new to Homebase . |
| 6 | For these — unlike Superfund sites — the cash comes entirely from the federal government . |
| 7 | The saucer drops between the towers , flies low over strangely deserted streets and comes suddenly to a grinding halt . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Cruelty in general comes easily to the childish nature , since the obstacle that brings the instinct for mastery to a halt at another person 's pain — namely a capacity for pity — is developed relatively late . |
| 10 | If realism can break your heart , as Salman Rushdie remarked , it comes easily in every other sense . |
| 11 | Some comes directly from the upper mantle above the descending oceanic plate , some from partial melting of the oceanic plate itself , and some from the lower part of the continental crust . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , the design comes directly from the traditional vocabulary and , with thought , it can be performed by dancers who possess strong and precise technique and who can enjoy the challenge it sets before them . |
| 13 | Once , what a child learned came partly from parents , partly from participation in local society , partly from practice , and much from teachers and schoolbooks ; today , a large part of what a child knows comes directly from the mass media . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Consequently , in the transition epoch , the case of the imaginary form inevitably comes close to the typical case . |
| 16 | Pete finds this hilarious ; he has been dying to get his own back for various things for ages and this comes close to the perfect opportunity . |
| 17 | But in relative terms there can be no doubt that British broadcasting comes close to the Public Service Ideal while the British press comes nowhere near it . |
| 18 | And one day it 's an ordinary day — he comes home in the usual way and says , ‘ I 'm dying ; I 'll be dead in a year or so . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | When Sombro comes home after a long excursion , he 's usually very thin , in poor shape and a bit battered and bruised . |
| 21 | Comes carefully to the sunk lungs . |
| 22 | The word comes straight from the Greek meaning ‘ nature ’ ; and it did not acquire its narrower modern sense until about Helmholtz 's time . |
| 23 | The surveys confirmed what public librarians know from practical experience — that reservation pressure comes mainly from a small minority of users , and mainly for new fiction and non-fiction titles reviewed in the Sunday and daily newspapers . |
| 24 | Evidence supporting a genetic component to predisposition comes mainly from a large study of 15924 male twin pairs . |
| 25 | The satisfaction gained from nursing , like that of the other ‘ caring ’ professions , comes mainly from an intrinsic satisfaction at doing something useful rather than from external recognition of one 's value . |
| 26 | Corroborative evidence of this comes sometimes from the spectral widths of the lines , and sometimes from observation of movement of the patches , revealed in sequences of photographs . |
| 27 | In a statement made in 1952 , Aneurin Bevan comes closest to the continental view . |
| 28 | To the home bodies he comes across as a good father , a man who always helps his daughter with her homework . |
| 29 | Kington comes across as a natural traveller , just as Colin Thubron did in the Silk Road programme in David Wallace 's series . |
| 30 | In sum then , though the Supplement has a good deal more to commend it than its 1977 parent , it comes across as a car-orientated guide , static in outlook and narrow-minded in perspective . |