Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] come [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does seem though , that nothing came of these leases , and during 1749 upon request by Sir William Fleming , one John Lawson ( a Quaker ) sent up Joseph Vipone to see the mines at Coniston and for this Lawson paid him 12s. plus 4s. for a horse for four days . |
| 2 | ‘ Well then , I 'll take it , ’ he said , ‘ because it 's all I have to prove that I come of good family . |
| 3 | I think it 's sometimes falsely represented as being academic or being unreal or as not relating to the masses of women 's lives , and it 's out of my own experience I just want to be clear about this , it 's out of my own experience as an incest survivor , as a pornography survivor , my father worked in the porn industry , that I came to revolutionary feminism . |
| 4 | ‘ And these stones — so unexpected in this magnificent country — because I confess it is not for the pleasures of civilisation that I came to this district but for the informing breadth and spectacles of Nature — reminded me of somewhere I knew not where and that was my over-selfish study which all but ended in a brute collision with yourselves ! ’ |
| 5 | It was in this cave that I came across another example of Yorkshire wit : revealed in the light of a torch was a daubed inscription on the wall of the cave , ‘ J. CAESAR B.C. 44 ’ . |
| 6 | I have fished all over Scotland but the first place that I came across this system , which is used to distribute available fishing fairly amongst guests , was at Scourie , and it works very well indeed . |
| 7 | Thus it was with pleasure that I came across this series of ‘ cartoon stories for adults of any age ’ , created by French scientist Jean-Pierre Petit . |
| 8 | I was having some of my aquatint plates of the Lake District steel-faced and when , in conversation with Mr. McQueen , he discovered that I came from this area , he recalled that in the past his forebears had printed for another artist from the Lakes . |
| 9 | It is an exciting garden , the hedges and paths divide it so that you come upon different parts almost by surprise , such as the scented garden , the woodland garden , built around some of the trees that Colonel Mitchell left behind him , with a sturdy wooden tree-house for the children , and the patio garden where the Prince sits and does paperwork during the summer months to the soothing sound of water , which springs from a sculpture he commissioned of stone whales . |
| 10 | Erm , so we come to special resolution number one , which is as set out on your order paper , which is to do with the replacement of a , er , clause in our Memorandum of Association , and I will invite Jeffrey to move it . |
| 11 | ‘ But I came down to the theatre and was assured it was suitable for children so we came with open minds , ’ she said . |
| 12 | Eugene Malou and Frank Friedmaier are far more interesting than the people by whom they are condemned : the fact that they come to sticky ends is Simenon 's fig-leaf , his nod in the direction of conventional morality . |
| 13 | In addition a doctor mentioned the advantage of his privileged background and several people indicated that they came from medical families . |
| 14 | More important was that German and Italian aid tended to arrive on request , and especially when most needed following Nationalist setbacks or preceding major pushes ; that it was channelled through Franco as Nationalist leader and not , as with Soviet aid to the Republic , through a political faction ; and that it came on easy credit terms with no political strings attached . |
| 15 | Beaverbrook said that it came from Henderson ; Balfour said that it came from Bonar Law ; Law 's biographer said that it came from Balfour ; and Crewe said that it came from Montagu and Derby . |
| 16 | The noise in the Chamber tonight did not do the House great credit , but I do not think that it came from one side alone . |
| 17 | Yet it is at this point that it comes into sharpest conflict with the cultural and anti-intellectual currents which are rooted in a return to instinctual modes . |
| 18 | Always pick a flower on the very day that it comes into full bloom , because the process of ageing takes place very rapidly in flowers , and pressing does not rejuvenate them , but only halts the ageing process at the moment of pressing . |
| 19 | Again very light ‘ rock ’ this time with smoother edges , and natural in the sense that it comes from Icelandic lava flows . |
| 20 | It was while teaching a form called ‘ the sink ’ — the exam failures and the less bright — that he came to that perception which all good teachers share : to inspire pupils you have first to gain their attention and one of the best ways of doing that is through humour and anecdote . |
| 21 | One day I was in the library and I came across this book . |
| 22 | Pinned above Beth 's bed , next to the card proclaiming her to be a spiritualist , was a photograph of a male dancer from the newly formed Royal Ballet , and I came in one day soon after I arrived at Huntingdon to find a knot of giggling girls peering up at this dancer , who was poised on one foot , wearing an agonised expression and very tight tights . |
| 23 | And I came in one day a few days ago an and running around like a bee on heat with erm cries of oh I 've got so much to do and no time left in which to do it and I went ha I said yes , if you got up early , you know ! |
| 24 | There are thousands of police officers in the 17 drugs wings who are accountable to the police authorities , and my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary and I come to this place to answer questions about them . |
| 25 | In so far as this decision approves a requirement made under section 7(4) to provide a specimen of blood simpliciter , without making any reference to the alternative of urine , it has been effectively overruled by later cases and I shall defer further consideration of it until I come to those cases . |
| 26 | Bypassing the entrance to the huge living-room , which looked dim and shadowy in the faint glow from the circular night-lights sunk into the wooden-slat ceiling , she followed the passageway until she came to another flight of steps , which obviously led down to the lowest level of the house . |
| 27 | And you come over this hill and suddenly there 's nothing on the other side except a huge hole in the ground , and the road goes along almost a cliff edge the side of this erm hole which is this worked out iron ore quarry . |
| 28 | And she came on horseback and she came over that road making for , |
| 29 | And she came in this day with these flowers and spoke to me and I did n't know who she was |
| 30 | If you have a hundred people , as you say , well you can do all sorts of things ; you can take a vote , or you can argue it out , until you come to some kind of consensus . |