Example sentences of "[pron] come [adv prt] [prep] a [noun] " 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 | Other areas that I am personally responsible for are Person to Person , an ‘ in depth ’ interview with a member of staff at their home , Amicable Angus/Agnes ( getting someone to come up with an idea ) and Amicable Focus . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I really want someone to come along with an order so I can get on and make half a dozen . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ A few weeks ago , someone came up to a tagger with the KWS tagging crew , ’ Boyle said . |
| 6 | Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again . |
| 7 | Well , I do n't know what she might have told you , but I racked my memory and I came up with a name . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Looking at the way other people did it and sort of experimenting on my own I came up with a combination that worked . |
| 11 | It was only later that I came up with a theory for his reticence to stop and speak . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I trained hard all last winter and in one race I came up against a black who I knew had n't prepared properly . |
| 15 | The first time I came up against a woman comandante … |
| 16 | A passion born of the habit I came by as a girl at school . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I came in for a lot of adulation during my racing days — groupies . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | After my 20 minutes , I came off in a muck sweat . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But I came back as a Gnome . |
| 24 | I came back from a business trip to find her gone . ’ |
| 25 | When I came out of a nightmare of pain it was to a swirling world of night , and a storm . |
| 26 | Because I came out of a society in which nobody even read books and I certainly never expected to be a writer . |
| 27 | This distracting racket pitched in every time I came out of a corner and put on the power in the Formula First single-seat racing car I was driving . |
| 28 | That I came out of an egg . ’ |
| 29 | I came out with a show before the war , and stayed on . ’ |
| 30 | But I came out with an O level ! |