Example sentences of "[vb past] come [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Trees and plants do project different subtle atmospheres around them , as Dr Bach discovered when he used come of their flowers to produce remedies containing their subtle vibration . |
| 2 | The Maggot had played American football until he had come off his Harley-Davidson at eighty miles an hour and permanently damaged his left knee . |
| 3 | He had come off his motor-bike . |
| 4 | Mark Gill picked up the ball in the middle of the Park and , with the Portadown defence spreadeagled and offering no challenge , he calmly lobbed it over their heads and also that of Magee who had come off his line . |
| 5 | On one occasion he went to Dundee where the promoter knocked down his purse from £4 to £2. 10s. because he had come on his motor bike rather than on the train . |
| 6 | She had come with her little boy of four to stay for a fortnight because the van Goghs felt so sorry for her . |
| 7 | The warmth that had come with his laughter faded , and she felt he had tricked her into saying more than she intended . |
| 8 | His spirit had come with his son . |
| 9 | She moved away to talk to Eustace Tolby who had come with his wife , an elegant Asian woman . |
| 10 | This was the traditional mooring place for dahabeeyahs and in the old days , before Mr Cook had come with his steamers , there would have been over two hundred of them nudging the bank . |
| 11 | Anpetuwi , where he had come with his hurt and confusion , and Anpetuwi , which had not disappointed him , taking him and holding him in its gentle heart as a mother held a child . |
| 12 | Many of her gentleman clients were foreign and even the odd Arab prince had come to her office . |
| 13 | It was as if Jack had driven her , herded her into this enlightenment , and a terrible pleasure had come to her aid . |
| 14 | And she had asked him what would have happened to her if she had not had these good friends who had come to her aid and given her shelter , and when , in the form of an excuse , his answer had been , did n't she realize that he was distracted ? she had come back with , did n't he realize he had almost killed a man , that he was lucky he was n't in gaol now answering a charge of murder ? |
| 15 | He would not tell her , this funny bewitching little English girl , that he had come to her first because he could not keep away from her . |
| 16 | Joan was already in bed and Anne , who had herself ostensibly retired , had come to her chamber to talk to her . |
| 17 | Trying to keep her voice calm , and almost choking on the tears of guilt that had come to her eyes the moment she heard her aunt speak , Constance said , ‘ Oh , Aunt Louise , I 've met a boy … no , not really a boy … a young man ’ — and she began to sob . |
| 18 | She could only pray that Dana had come to her senses and had left before they arrived at Garry 's hide-out . |
| 19 | He released her as suddenly as he had come to her support and she grasped quickly and covertly at the back of another chair , not wanting him to know that her numbed leg was tingling painfully now . |
| 20 | It was good to know that all her veterinary training had come to her aid in spite of the fact that she had been working for two years with small animals only . |
| 21 | This man who , for the second time in two days , had come to her aid ! |
| 22 | It had come to its senses . |
| 23 | Out of the contemporary turmoil of Hindu tradition Rabindranath Tagore wrote of the same mysterious sources of renewal : I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power — that the path before me was closed , that provisions were exhausted and the time come to take shelter in a silent obscurity . |
| 24 | In particular he mentions one which his father had bought from a poor pedlar who had come to their door . |
| 25 | Bill Clinton had come to their shrine on Memorial Day , the first president ever to do so . |
| 26 | In collecting biographical material fans were asked to give accounts of the ways in which they had come to their present position in the terraces and to indicate on a sketch plan of the London Road End , past , and projected future locations . |
| 27 | Mauss had come to their house in the avenue Hoche for dinner ; like most academics — I am guessing — feeling a little shabby when confronted by the glowing paintings and rich Aubussons and complex dinner settings . |
| 28 | It might have been said that since one representative was absent they could not do anything about it , but the fact of the matter is they plainly had come to their decision the day before . |
| 29 | It is not material to any issue before the court , but I should record that on 26 March 1991 the board of Lautro considered whether intervention remained justified in the light of information that had come to their knowledge since 30 October 1990 . |
| 30 | They knew from entries in the deceased 's diary which had come to their attention that the new will would be in favour of the first defendant . |