Example sentences of "[pron] come [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In their early twenties they had a group called the Actors and RCA records asked them to come in for a meeting . |
| 2 | It looks at the reasons for dissatisfaction at the ways in which complaints are handled , highlighting an example of an elderly couple who had waited two years for someone to come round with a colour chart , prior to decorating the outside of their house . |
| 3 | ‘ A few weeks ago , someone came up to a tagger with the KWS tagging crew , ’ Boyle said . |
| 4 | ‘ I came here under a lot of pressure , knowing I had to succeed , ’ he said . |
| 5 | I came here with a companion in 1954 , determined to conquer this graceful peak and thus set the seal on my mountaineering achievements but , to our shame , we shirked the last thirty yards to the summit cairn in growing apprehension of an instant demise . |
| 6 | I mean , I came here with a plan . |
| 7 | I came here as a company stage manager from Oxford playhouse company . |
| 8 | But no one 's touched that room to my knowledge , since I came here as a bride in 1929 . |
| 9 | ‘ I came here as a bride , ’ said my mother , and Lili giggled . |
| 10 | Well , I do n't know what she might have told you , but I racked my memory and I came up with a name . |
| 11 | ‘ Anyone who gets really used to something will know what I 'm talking about here , but my stuff is pretty noisy and when I came up with a way of getting rid of the noise , I really missed it ! |
| 12 | Finally , I came up with a plan which , while perhaps not exactly as Mr Farraday had requested , was the best , I felt sure , that was humanly possible . |
| 13 | Looking at the way other people did it and sort of experimenting on my own I came up with a combination that worked . |
| 14 | It was only later that I came up with a theory for his reticence to stop and speak . |
| 15 | I came up with a lot of very hard guitar parts for this album and I had to practise the hell out of them so I could pull them off . |
| 16 | Eventually , after canvassing ideas from virtually everyone in the department , I came up with a design , using egg boxes and colanders which Blue Peter decided to use . |
| 17 | I trained hard all last winter and in one race I came up against a black who I knew had n't prepared properly . |
| 18 | The first time I came up against a woman comandante … |
| 19 | On the Friday evening , their last night , I came downstairs after a bath and was on my way to the kitchen to get supper when , in glancing out of the windows at the front , it seemed that a dense fog had developed . |
| 20 | A passion born of the habit I came by as a girl at school . |
| 21 | ‘ I came in for a lot of criticism but I know in my heart that the good things I did there were very conveniently swept under the carpet at the time . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I came in for a lot of adulation during my racing days — groupies . |
| 23 | On Saturday 4 June , I came in from a morning 's canvassing in Sutton Coldfield to find an urgent message to call Conservative Central Office . |
| 24 | After my 20 minutes , I came off in a muck sweat . |
| 25 | Fortunately it did n't go off , but it made a hell of a mess , and I came down in a shell-hole just outside our wire . ’ |
| 26 | I came back for a month , met a Peruvian girl and then I got a letter from her giving me a really good reason to come back . |
| 27 | But I came back as a Gnome . |
| 28 | I came back from a business trip to find her gone . ’ |
| 29 | When I came out of a nightmare of pain it was to a swirling world of night , and a storm . |
| 30 | Because I came out of a society in which nobody even read books and I certainly never expected to be a writer . |