Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] come [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 On the subject of overseas coaches or players coming over for big money to coach Irish clubs Armstrong has strong views .
2 Half the fun of viewing them is that subjects come up at random .
3 Although ‘ real ’ life was now so often only fantasy and incomplete memories , there were moments when people , events , sights and sounds came back into sudden , sharp focus .
4 The cherry and whites came back with 2 penalties .
5 The advance guard of men on mules and horses came up in regular lines but as soon as they got near they dashed up at full gallop , shouting and brandishing their weapons , each man shrieking out how many men he had killed ; and then they wheeled round to make room for others .
6 The bombs fell on South Wales and reports came in of young men killed in the air , on land , at sea .
7 While councillors came in for much criticism for being representative , health professionals had similar difficulties .
8 We waited anxiously as reports came in of 97-mph gales in the Pennines but thankfully the spire remained firm .
9 It should be stated that 99% of the SVR passengers took the disruptions in their stride , especially when locomotives came out of rostered order to the advertised timetable coupled with the tropical downpour all day .
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