Example sentences of "[noun] come [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " 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 | You could go with the travel club , I suppose , but then you do n't get the chance to come down the Three Goats Heads pub in the city centre before and after the match and meet everyone else from the list — hopefully . |
| 12 | Chapman came back the next year , he said , because he had more time , not because the finances were in a muddle . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The men came down the stern ladder . |
| 15 | Cos erm Greg came down the other night . |
| 16 | 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 … |
| 17 | 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 … ’ |
| 18 | Sharp was very excited , and asked Kimber to come back the next day to play the tunes , while he wrote them down . |
| 19 | To win Test matches , one has to take wickets consistently , and a high proportion of chances come off the outside edge of the bat . |
| 20 | The water is contained in a clear plastic tank and the steam comes down the thick tubes from the tank to the iron . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The trouser , sock and shoe come off the hemiplegic leg last . |
| 23 | You dial the destination , feed the paper in , press the Start button and , hey presto , a facsimile copy comes out the other end . |