Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] come a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The passenger has always come a poor second to the operational integrity of the system . |
2 | The SNP has indeed come a long way since Jim Sillars , as vice-president of the SNP , in a section of his Independence in Europe pamphlet ( June 1989 ) entitled ‘ The David Martin formula ’ , referred to Europe of the regions as a ‘ nebulous concept ’ . |
3 | And one day when she was working in her little garden slithering between the vine yams there came a green snake . |
4 | ‘ I did n't come a thousand miles , ’ he muttered into the microphone , ‘ to kill babies , or to support their killing . |
5 | ‘ He can count his good luck that he did n't come a few minutes earlier , ’ Rune said crisply . |
6 | And do n't come a bloody car park do n't put the board up . |
7 | Just as he spoke there came a strange cry from across the moor . |
8 | Mota had already come a long way since her schooldays when she ran away with the city , area and national cross-country championships . |
9 | Certainly there was every need for a road-widening scheme : four years earlier , in the October of 1793 , poor old Parson Woodforde had nearly come a nasty cropper on Frome Hill , when the chaise he was in had had an unfortunate encounter with a large ‘ heavily loaden ’ London waggon , complete with eight horses : |
10 | ‘ Well , you 've certainly come a long way from the child who ran from me in that garden . ’ |
11 | Well , we 've certainly come a long way since Pliny 's day . |
12 | We have indeed come a long way from 1882 , and can look forward to the challenge of the 1990s — the closer harmonisation of our concerns with those of other conservation bodies . |
13 | We have certainly come a long way since Aristotle and Ptolemy , when we thought that the earth was the centre of the universe ! |
14 | It 's certainly come a long way from the upstairs room at the Albert . |