Example sentences of "[adv] come [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The legend recounted how seventy translators had worked in independent cells and had all come up with the identical version of the sacred text . |
| 2 | If the country 's nuclear experts really are as bright as they would like us to think , they should be bright enough to come up with a convincing case for spending so much money , or to find cheaper ways of demonstrating the technology . |
| 3 | ‘ If you 'd be kind enough to come down to the front door , I 'll explain everything . ’ |
| 4 | She did that for half an hour and he only came round for a short time . |
| 5 | Mildred tried to shriek , but it only came out as a frenzied croaking . |
| 6 | The kitten lived to be nine , so came out of the whole business best , I suppose . |
| 7 | Even the Commission , with all its enthusiasm for EMU , could only come up with a potential saving of between 0.1% and 0.5% of the Community 's GDP , and even this did not take into account new costs of changing the ecu into other , non-EC currencies . |
| 8 | Mr McEd was acting pretty cagey about it for one thing and , when pressed , would only come up with the reassuring phrases : ‘ Every cloud has a silver lining Ed … ’ or ‘ Do n't worry son , you father 's not such an old fool as he looks … |
| 9 | It is my belief that anorexic speech ( or , more literally , behaviour ) consists of two quite separate and often contradictory texts , and that it is only by studying them both , in order to fit them together and so come up with an amended text , that we can understand what is going on inside the anorexic herself . |
| 10 | For a period of the late 16th century it appears to have come into the possession of the Earls of Leicester but eventually came back into the full possession of Trinity College , which remained lord of the manor until quite recent times . |
| 11 | Sun Microsystems Inc 's Computer Corp unit duly came out with a new , cheaper Sparcstation IPC last week , offering a colour system for under $6,000 — £5,000 in the UK — for the first time . |
| 12 | This duly came about with the Environmental Protection Act 1990 ( EPA ) . |
| 13 | Even then , major subscribers like the US and the USSR had not come up with the necessary money . |
| 14 | What I might actually do it see if Ian 's not doing anything if he not come in for the full time that they 're cleaning up , but come in for those sort of things . |
| 15 | And a similar state of affairs had meanwhile come about on the other side of the lines . |
| 16 | Let's say you receive a call in your boss ' office , on your boss ' phone , it 's just come through to the wrong one . |
| 17 | We turned our ponies and galloped back to the Legation , where we learnt that news had just come in of a great victory for the Shoan army . |
| 18 | An Oxford aid worker who 's just come back from the Croatian capital Zagreb , says the situation there is getting out of hand . |
| 19 | ‘ Dear Loretta , ’ she read , ‘ I 've just come back from an official trip to Italy , and I squeezed in a visit to a peace camp while I was there . |
| 20 | I think she 's probably just come out for a quick stroll , we wo n't spend our time over that at the moment , hello |
| 21 | Only a party bigot would claim that they had somehow come in with the Conservative Government three years earlier . |
| 22 | They all just came back for a regular routine follow up , just a little bit late . |
| 23 | After making unsignalled turns and abrupt lane changes through Chevy Chase , and Bethesda , she blasted to a highly illegal speed south on the Beltway , ducked off it rejoined a few miles along and finally came down to a leisurely cruise through the Virginia countryside . |
| 24 | She might have sat all afternoon , nibbling and stuporous , exhausted but not sleepy ; but the glazier finally came down from the upper floor , cheerfully announcing that all was now right and tight and he would be on his way . |
| 25 | Specifically , in the case of Anthony Miers , the Royal Navy submariner who finally came in for a teeny bit of criticism over his methods of disposing of German seamen who rather inconveniently surrendered . |
| 26 | She rustled around and finally came out with a crumpled bill which she put in my hand . |
| 27 | But er before I came out I switched it on cos I 'm not coming back to a cold house . |
| 28 | If it was friendly , how come it was scurrying around stealing magazines and not coming out into the open and asking who was in charge round here . |
| 29 | The sun was just coming up over the far bank , trailing a red reflection across the water . |
| 30 | There followed a frantic exchange of telegrams between Rangoon and Whitehall in which the Governor offered various solutions to the prevailing deadlock , finally coming up with the unexpected suggestion that a new coalition ministry was possible with Paw Tun , the last premier of Burma before the invasion ; U Saw , his predecessor as premier , an unscrupulous schemer who had been interned for dealing with the Japanese ; and Aung San , previously portrayed by Dorman-Smith as a murderer and an enemy . |