Example sentences of "[adv] come [adv prt] [prep] the [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 you 'd be kind enough to come down to the front door , I 'll explain everything . ’ |
| 3 | The kitten lived to be nine , so came out of the whole business best , I suppose . |
| 4 | 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 … |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This duly came about with the Environmental Protection Act 1990 ( EPA ) . |
| 7 | Even then , major subscribers like the US and the USSR had not come up with the necessary money . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And a similar state of affairs had meanwhile come about on the other side of the lines . |
| 10 | Let's say you receive a call in your boss ' office , on your boss ' phone , it 's just come through to the wrong one . |
| 11 | An Oxford aid worker who 's just come back from the Croatian capital Zagreb , says the situation there is getting out of hand . |
| 12 | Only a party bigot would claim that they had somehow come in with the Conservative Government three years earlier . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The sun was just coming up over the far bank , trailing a red reflection across the water . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There are some aspects of our personalities which may not come over in the brief span of an interview , but which those close to us know only too well . |
| 18 | The table provided in the Library note projects that we shall not come up against the upper ceiling of the present capacity in either this or the next financial year . |
| 19 | He believed that socialism would not come about as the inevitable result of impersonal laws of economic development but would have to be built by active human beings working purposively and creatively . |
| 20 | One of the soldiers wanted to know if it was true that Medoc was preparing for the birth into the world of the monster god-idol , Crom Croich , and an argument sprang up as to whether Medoc and Crom Croich were the most evil and most powerful forces ever to come out of the Dark Ireland , or whether the Erl-King had been worse . |
| 21 | People and cars always came in through the big double gates . |
| 22 | After spending some time there ( as if we were actually present ) we will gradually come back to the present day , and as we do so we will become more reflective and try and push the present away from us — making it strange — by maintaining a certain distance from our immediate history . |
| 23 | So you would like come in to the main entrance and then |
| 24 | Saturday 's 2-1 win was Sunderland 's third in succession and Crosby said : ‘ We can still come up on the blind side . |
| 25 | Although one of the most interesting objects in the sale , it was not considered sufficiently rare — or Bavarian — to be among the items withdrawn from the sale at the instigation of the Bavarian State , which at the time of writing was still negotiating with Fürstin Gloria over what exactly will still come up in the future Regensburg sale . |
| 26 | i just have to say this : George Best is easily one of — the — very best players to ever come out of the british isles — yeah i know he played for Scum — but he — was — a bloody excellent player . |
| 27 | Well I think I , I mean I do agree and I think that the that er that pressure is now getting on to these , these city institutions , but erm , but I still come back to the basic thing that , that really , you know what appears to me is happening is we 've we 're having literally millions of pounds taken out in , in issuing these massive massive writs you know , a hundred and seventy eight page writs are sort of being and really the money for those is coming out of the remaining money in our pension funds and really I feel that what wou what is happening is this , as far as I 'm concerned , is all due to the self-regulatory body being set under the Financial Services Act , and in a way I feel that you know we 're being made to pay for sorting out a mess that somebody else is making . |
| 28 | He docs his homework ( though incorrectly ) , he raises his hand during discussions ( though he usually comes up with the wrong answer ) , he keeps his nose in his book during free study periods . |
| 29 | They 've also come up with the quaint idea of having a T-shirt recycling stall in the club where you can take your old T-shirts and get a new Dodgy one in exchange . |
| 30 | These are believed to result , at least in part , from sewage pollution , although there is some evidence that nutrients are also coming in from the open sea . |