Example sentences of "[noun] come [adv prt] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Blyth came back the next year he was even more unpleasant than before , having lost his left leg from above the knee in a road accident ( the boy he was playing'chicken ’ with was killed ) . |
| 2 | She tried to sound playful , but somehow the words came out the wrong way . |
| 3 | Then she looked behind her and saw a carriage coming up the same hill that she had just climbed , with a man leading the horse . |
| 4 | Tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano ( b. 1952 ) has in some respects come up the hard way ; passing the 40-year mark last year , he 's nevertheless a craftsman often overlooked in the public eye in favour of younger more ‘ marketable ’ musicians . |
| 5 | Heaven help them all when the dailies came out the next day . |
| 6 | The truck came back the same afternoon . |
| 7 | At that moment Jack Carter and Dougal Munro came down the main staircase . |
| 8 | If that happened , when the sun came out the lingering nicotine would burn yellow marks around the edges of young foliage . |
| 9 | Firstly , to make a motif come out the same way round as depicted on your graph , turn the graph upside down . |
| 10 | Again the danger came down the left flank as Dow passed to Drew Waddell who touched down . |
| 11 | Chapman came back the next year , he said , because he had more time , not because the finances were in a muddle . |
| 12 | It is however possible for one of their number to come back the next day and give the decision , the findings of fact and the reasons of the court , considered at rather more leisure than sometimes time will permit . |
| 13 | The men came down the stern ladder . |
| 14 | Cos erm Greg came down the other night . |
| 15 | But the other lot come down the next night , and the night after that , and the night after that , all week they come down , about 40 , 50 of them , from all over … |
| 16 | Consider the boys ' version of the ‘ numbers game ’ at the beginning of ‘ Fighting talk ’ : ‘ and the other lot come down the next night , and the night after that and the night after that , all week , about 40 , 50 , from all over … ’ |
| 17 | Sharp was very excited , and asked Kimber to come back the next day to play the tunes , while he wrote them down . |
| 18 | To win Test matches , one has to take wickets consistently , and a high proportion of chances come off the outside edge of the bat . |
| 19 | Dot woke when she heard Gloria coming down the clanky metal steps outside , heard her stumble her way across the room , and then felt herself being pushed to the far side of the bed . |
| 20 | The trouser , sock and shoe come off the hemiplegic leg last . |
| 21 | You dial the destination , feed the paper in , press the Start button and , hey presto , a facsimile copy comes out the other end . |