Example sentences of "[verb] come [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should n't 've come down this way . |
| 2 | And perhaps er what has come out that perhaps is not reflected either in my initial statement or in the summary is this point about maximizing the benefits of the relief roads er through complementary measures within the urban area . |
| 3 | Maggie 's has come out alright , she got it . |
| 4 | In the first case , elitism does not provide an explanation , being merely a loose term to describe a social category about which other features rather than the elite characteristic provide what explanation there is ; in the second case , the power elite looks remarkably like a social class , and elite explanation has come back full circle to its point of departure . |
| 5 | ‘ Another requirement is firefighting and first aid so my BP training has come in handy , ’ added Robin , whose wife , Denise , now joins him at the track — as a flag marshal . |
| 6 | The widely reported price differential between US and European software packages , has come down some , Gates said , but will continue to exist , while diminishing further . |
| 7 | It has to be said that when Dustin has co-starred in a movie with as big a star as he — McQueen , Redford , Beatty or Connery — he has come off second best . |
| 8 | His Auntie ( Mothers sister ) lived most of her life in Harwell village , having come down this way to do domestic service . |
| 9 | One former member of the Royal Corps of Signals had been to Hong Kong preventing the ‘ illegal entry of persons ’ , which would have come in handy for protecting intruders at Goldfinger 's headquarters . |
| 10 | It might have come in handy frozen , as a weapon in case Pointy-Beard and Shifty-Eyes turned up again , but then I now had Doogie on side . |
| 11 | ‘ A taxi would have come in handy at the end of the night — the fields were a bit mucky . ’ |
| 12 | The fans would have come in handy during the humid weather over the last few days . |
| 13 | And I think I will have come out that way on the thing . |
| 14 | I part company with the Committee in a small way on its comment that those developments would have come about irrespective of our privatisation proposals . |
| 15 | They 've come out nice have n't they ? |
| 16 | I had come up real short on the gratuitous sex and violence so far . |
| 17 | After all they had been force-fed about the godliness of the Khomeini regime , here was Reagan as a ‘ man of God ’ ( North 's words ) who had gone away for a ‘ whole weekend ’ to pray about the Frankfurt meeting and had come up all by himself with an inscription for a Bible to be given to the Iranians . |
| 18 | It was a year since he had come up this steep , winding avenue . |
| 19 | They had spies out , to be sure , but so far no definite reports had come in other than that Balliol and the English army , now unfortunately reinforced by the Highland and other Scots adherents , had left Perth ten days before , cavalry and foot marching southwards by Auchterarder and the Allan Water , to cross Teith by the Ford of Keir and Forth by the Fords of Frew , presumably to avoid any opposition at the vulnerable Stirling Bridge ; which conjecture had set Alexander Ramsay worrying about Doune Castle and Mariot Randolph , not to mention her brother raising his levies thereabouts . |
| 20 | He had come in barefoot . |
| 21 | The van , she supposed , had come in handy there , besides giving Rose Hilaire her nightmare vision . |
| 22 | Lessing consulted Dinah , who had come back tired from an evening full of accidents ; the scenery had fallen , the lesser lady had not come in on cue , the leading man had been a failure and she would have to find someone else . |
| 23 | I had come back blind . |
| 24 | Finally she returned to her dorm , terrified not so much at the prospect of getting caught but because she had come back empty handed . |
| 25 | By that time , certain records had come out that would prove to be milestones in my life . |
| 26 | He had come out first of everyone in his early examinations , and worked constantly . |
| 27 | She had only meant to defend herself , but it had come out all wrong . |
| 28 | It was the worst thing she had ever said to him , but it had come out unpremeditated and could not be unsaid . |
| 29 | The festivities will now start and I do n't think I 'm out of order at all if I asked all the Three-Ninetieth veterans to give a real round of applause to these beautiful British people have come , have come out this after this after th this afternoon . |
| 30 | Erm , Simon , there 's one that 's come up right field in the fact that we mention , I think you might have got it 'cos you 're responsible for the Q P five , which talks about interim reports , services . |