Example sentences of "[adv] come [adv prt] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's great fun , very enjoyable , but for a young women who 's perhaps come up from a convent or an all girls ' school and who feels very uncomfortable with this person because he 's thirty years older and has power over here , it 's not perceived in the same way . |
| 2 | She swam in what she hoped was the direction of the stairs , only to come up against a wall . |
| 3 | But none of them had been interested enough to come up with an offer . |
| 4 | He of friends , and I thought well , when we 're going into this , you know , he 's obviously coming in as a colleague , because actually he was a member of the same damn union . |
| 5 | But remember , sugar does not only come out of a packet . |
| 6 | Only when this phantasy is well on the way to realization as a practical mode of government does the citizen begin to notice that the state 's omnipresence means the total bureaucratization and control of life , that its omniscience dictates the need for total state surveillance , and that its omnipotence can only come about as a consequence of the total impotence of its subjects . |
| 7 | The reduction in the real wage rate which was a necessary concomitant of a rise in unemployment could only come about through an expansion of aggregate demand . |
| 8 | This , he feels , can only come about by a return to the basic function of inspection . |
| 9 | After all , I had only come back for a day or two to buy some good German clothes . |
| 10 | These beliefs , attitudes and values obviously come about as a result of the pressures stemming from material , economic , political and other forces , but , once they are in existence , they exert an influence of their own on people 's behaviour . |
| 11 | He was able to continue , but eventually came in with an oil leak and a loose tail pipe . |
| 12 | When Mr Maxwell eventually came out of a hotel lift to attend his own reception , he crossed the hotel lobby and went down a corridor , followed by shouts of ‘ scab ’ and other abuse . |
| 13 | The government has still not come up with a dump for the masses of intermediate wastes , such as fuel cladding , that the plant would produce . |
| 14 | The old scribe would shake his head : ‘ I could have tried for 20 years and still not come up with an opening paragraph like that , ’ he would say . |
| 15 | Branfoot said : ‘ Matt has not come back with an answer but we are still in the early stages of negotiation . ’ |
| 16 | A Dessie Edgar corner was neatly side-footed home in 79 minutes by Victor Welch who had just come on as a sub . |
| 17 | Dates have just come in for a series of Ovation guitar clinics , with Ian Aitken : Wed Oct 14th , Picton Music , Swansea ; Thu 15th , Cranes Music , Cardiff ; Mon 26th , Oasis Music , Ringwood , Hants ; Tues 27th , Soundpad , Barnstaple ; Thu 29th , Avalon Music , Sevenoaks ; Wed 11th Nov , Music Inn , Nottingham ; Thu 12th , Musical Exchange , Birmingham ; Fri 13th , Foulds of Derby ; Wed 18th , Rose Morris Music Store , London . |
| 18 | The successful receptionist models could be used to devise special training to enable CAB receptionists to ascertain the depth of a problem ; they could serve the dual function of assessing which clients have just come in for a form or a local address and they could make appointments for others in person or by telephone and smooth the queue . |
| 19 | The puppy was probably encouraged to jump up when he was small and everyone thought it was quite fun , but now he is large , and has probably just come in from a swim in the pool and Aunty is standing there in her Sunday best . |
| 20 | She opened the door before Massingham had time to ring , her handsome shield-shaped face composed under the light brown fringe , and looking in her shirt , slacks and leather jerkin as elegantly informal as if she had just come in from a country walk . |
| 21 | A film editor friend has just come back from a couple of weeks of yoga , a music producer I know goes to St James , Piccadilly , where they have spiritual talks on a Monday evening , while a designer friend does Chi-Kung , a Chinese movement like Tai-Chi , where you have to ‘ stand like a tree ’ . |
| 22 | ONLY a dealer who had just come back from a weekend in the Kalahari desert would have been surprised to hear of yesterday 's agreed £337.6m bid by MB Group for Caradon , the Twyfords and Everest building products group , so comprehensive has been the pre-match publicity . |
| 23 | Don Mini turned to one of the robins which had just come back from a practice flight with a child Minpin on its back . |
| 24 | By the time he had taken her back to the theatre she felt totally removed from the morning , quite calm , controlled , almost as though she was nothing to do with the Hochhauser Season but had just come back from a week in Vienna staying at a luxury hotel . |
| 25 | ‘ You 've obviously just come out of a shower . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ They had not been there very long and had just come out of a restaurant , ’ said Mr Robinson . |
| 27 | The Venice Soprintendenza certainly does not intend to miss out on such an opportunity and has already come up with a proposal , ‘ Dal Museo alla città ’ ( From Museum to City ) , which it estimates would cost L3.8 billion ( £1.76 million ; $3 million ) . |
| 28 | I just came out in a sweat . ’ |
| 29 | The company spent some two years casting around for a successor to its best-selling computer and finally came up with a machine called Lisa named after the daughter of the company 's founder Steve Jobs . |
| 30 | Their detection normally came about as a result of the appearance of a child ! |