Example sentences of "come [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ronnie must have come in through the yard door without her knowing … |
| 2 | When Rachel was finally writing up her reports at the end of the morning , Nina suddenly called her and asked if she could come and look at a young man who had come in with a skin rash . |
| 3 | He was glad that he did n't throw out the Christmas cards from his son and daughter in 1987 , for every year since he had taken them out of the suitcase on top of the wardrobe and displayed them in his own room as if they had come in with the morning post . |
| 4 | I see , I mean it 's good to see really that er test match has been dom well almost dominated at the moment , by , by a slow bowler , it 's an ideal situation for in England , batsmen done their job , England are in command , got lots of runs to play with , but it 's definitely the left arm spinner who 's causing the , the greatest problem out there , he 's , he 's landing it in the right place , he likes variation in that over , confident enough looks very tempted , always very difficult to come in at first twenty minutes as a batsman , when you 've come in on a turning wicket , a very , very , difficult . |
| 5 | Just before airtime , a story had come in on a drug bust : space was hastily made for this . |
| 6 | A tidy desk and behind it a man who might have come in on the Saturday afternoon for extra work . |
| 7 | She opened the door before Massingham had time to ring , her handsome shield-shaped face composed under the light brown fringe , and looking in her shirt , slacks and leather jerkin as elegantly informal as if she had just come in from a country walk . |
| 8 | Ray had come in from the country bank and we sat with Margaret through the short service . |
| 9 | ‘ This report has just come in from the Environments Officer . |
| 10 | A glacier stone in the churchyard is also mentioned in the Domesday Book and is believed to have come down during the Ice Age . |
| 11 | Both the air force and the army , as well as those who actually served with Leslie , seemed now to presume that the aircraft had come down in the English Channel . |
| 12 | One of her few friends in the movement , whom she used to meet at Lockharts in the Strand for a poached egg once a week , had come down from a mill town in Lancashire in 1916 with nothing but two brown paper parcels . |
| 13 | Than the shops gave place to boarding houses and the hill began ; it was a twin of the one he had come down from the car park . |
| 14 | The eight parties which had come together as the Kurdistan Front took part on May 19 in elections for an executive leader and a 105-seat Iraqi Kurdistan National Assembly for the Kurds of northern Iraq . |
| 15 | They asked me a few questions and they said , ‘ You 'd better come along to the police station . ’ |
| 16 | While he had been kicking his heels yesterday he had spent an hour in a tiny bookshop in Curzon Street and had come away with a paperback edition of the Parsons Rosenberg and the Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes 's anthology . |
| 17 | It 's the first time I 've come away from an exhibition thinking that the exhibition as such was stupid . |
| 18 | He had arrived at the Laboratory over an hour late , at ten o'clock , looking terribly tired because he had been up that night at the scene of crime , and had come over to the reception desk to collect his personal post . |
| 19 | ‘ As an example , we have come up with a de-sulphurization system to prevent damage to natural gas pipelines and a North Sea gas rig has had the equipment installed . |
| 20 | After long deliberations , the UIAA 's Alpinism Committee has come up with a draft code of practice which , while largely common sense , has the welcome bonus of strong presumption in favour of conservation . |
| 21 | Mountain View , California-based , Network Computing Devices Inc PC-X Division has come up with a $200 software package that lets a personal computer at home or in the field access applications on remote Unix- or VMS-based host computers . |
| 22 | Also looking at walking axes have been Grivel , who 've come up with the Air Tech , which weighs in at a gobsmacking 460g . |
| 23 | AT&T has come up with the ComputerWatch service , calling it a breakthrough for system security administration . |
| 24 | The old scribe would shake his head : ‘ I could have tried for 20 years and still not come up with an opening paragraph like that , ’ he would say . |
| 25 | One Sunday at the Trocadero the chief circle usher said to me , ‘ I think you 'd better come up to the back circle , Gents , we 've got a bloke behaving obscenely . ’ |
| 26 | Illes had not come up through the state bureaucracy , and his appointment as deputy state secretary was looked upon as a " statement of intent " by many in the environmental lobby . |
| 27 | Some may even have come up from the West Highland Way which runs below Am Bodach in a secluded glen parallel to Loch Leven . |
| 28 | But no warning could check Arthur Conway 's fury , and with a lightning leap he managed to grip the young man 's throat , and so fiercely that he forced him backwards , only the next moment to have his arms snapped downwards , when he would have fallen on his back if he had n't come up against the coalhouse wall and , unfortunately , a shovel that was propped there . |
| 29 | Jonah Barrington , Britain 's squash-rackets hall-of-famer , has come up against the Pakistan sportsman 's competitive edge more than a few times down the years in that windowless torture-chamber which can be a squash court . |
| 30 | He came from Wilton ( Wilts. ) , although the family 's residence there was itself the result of a career move by an earlier professional administrator ; they had come originally from the north west . |