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

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1 We turned our ponies and galloped back to the Legation , where we learnt that news had just come in of a great victory for the Shoan army .
2 It turned out to have come in through the curved zip which is unprotected by a weather flap .
3 This beggar had come in to the fitting shop , corner at the back corner , where he should n't have been .
4 While it has come in for a certain amount of criticism , it has also attracted much praise , especially from industry .
5 Understandably , this presumption has come in for a great deal of criticism .
6 Nevertheless , Sun has come in for no small amount of criticism in pursuing what is often strictly an ‘ invented here ’ approach to technology solutions , at the expense of making some pragmatic marketing decisions .
7 What I might actually do it see if Ian 's not doing anything if he not come in for the full time that they 're cleaning up , but come in for those sort of things .
8 Only a party bigot would claim that they had somehow come in with the Conservative Government three years earlier .
9 Reproaching herself for not having unlocked it when she had come in from the main door , she rose quickly and went to open up .
10 If Lili had come in by the back door it had been very late indeed .
11 Fairfax — Fahfakhs — who was a big man in the government had come down to the little town where Tepilit was held .
12 My only other close encounter with a paraglider was finding one grounded in a quagmire in the Arrochar Alps , where the poor man had come down in the wrong glen , leaving him miles to walk back to any road .
13 A lot of flood water had come down from the upper reaches of the Cherwell , and a body placed in the river , say , at Lonsdale Road …
14 Either a spark had come down from the old fellow 's hole up there or him with hobnail boots had trod on er black powder and set it off and his hole went out underneath his feet .
15 He was pleased to see how well they had all mixed , even though they had admittedly come together with a common purpose .
16 For the first time staff concerned with mapping and interpreting crustal structure in the third dimension have come together in a single division , Thematic Maps and Onshore Surveys ( TMOS ) .
17 It would seem that the plates which had come together in the Taconian orogeny , with the subduction of a Proto-Atlantic plate and the westerly over-riding of the sedimentary Pile along the line of the Appalachians had now more or less stopped .
18 Friends of the Earth criticized the lack of concrete suggestions , claiming that " the government has come along with a blank sheet of paper and asked the public to fill it in " .
19 The report adds that the question of " burden sharing " is crucial , as past accumulations of greenhouse gases have come largely from the industrialised world while future growth is likely to come increasingly from the developing nations .
20 The reader might have come away with a Victorian idea of the inexorability of progress , each generation better , finer and braver than its parents .
21 THE recovery in the housing market has come just at the right time for CALA , the Scottish house-builder , which saw interim losses nearly double to £2.85 million .
22 He can tell them in training , but they 've got to perform out there on the pitch , and probably this game has come just at the right time , after suffering a defeat like that , this is the time to get out there and show the supporters what they can really do .
23 The improvements have come not in a dramatic way but week by week over a number of months .
24 Sorry , the ghost has n't come over from the other side of the door , it just keeps moving by itself .
25 However , they have come home to a safe place where they know they are loved and that it is safe to have their tantrums .
26 Then she remembered why Nahum had come home in a terrible temper and called her unrepeatable names .
27 Now , as she crossed into Farringdon Street and saw familiar landmarks , she stopped and put down her bag , gazing about her with the pleasure of someone who has come home after a long absence .
28 Erm sometimes if he 's been out very very late and I 'm still up and he 's come home after a heavy night drinking .
29 It was after her mother had come home from a solitary trip to Rome .
30 The Beatles/Stones/Kinks/Peters And Lee have come up with a real smasher this time
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