Example sentences of "come [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , so that became the the fire prevention suite , erm and erm still is the fire prevention suite , erm and is well used now again , almost bursting , I should think er with increasing staff and , and work which seems to come each year . |
| 2 | but , he actually lodged in Rothbury well that was fifteen miles to come each day |
| 3 | After we moved up permanently , they continued to come each Christmas for four or five years until one year there was silence . |
| 4 | I suppose they could have come that way . ’ |
| 5 | If any stranger had come that way it was likely he would think he was following the black road to hell . |
| 6 | Few had come that way since the Deosil Gate had been one of the first to collapse in a shower of white-hot embers . |
| 7 | So why was it and how come that Madame was claiming that the opposite was true and that it was her father who was the person out of favour ? |
| 8 | In her hand she held the letter from England that had come that morning and Wilson knew what it contained : news of Miss Henrietta , of Mrs Surtees Cook , who was mortally ill with cancer of the womb . |
| 9 | Then he felt , vibrating along the ground , the steady tread of a man going away beyond the crest over which they had come that morning . |
| 10 | How come that shop had them and the other one did n't ? |
| 11 | ‘ And to come little visit with us ? ’ |
| 12 | In Jane Austen , to come nearer home , the protagonists are not , it is true , titled , but they are privileged . |
| 13 | she had our blue suite , such as it was , but she was going to come right flat on her back got his bedroom ready , for Ian all that , cos they do . |
| 14 | They arranged to come that way again next Sunday and then turned their horses eastwards for the long ride home . |
| 15 | So that to come that way |
| 16 | It was warm and sunny , and for a brief time , as she cycled along to the nearest shops , she almost forgot what was to come that day . |
| 17 | A few years ago I saw a couple of Eastenders stars come in erm and Ross whatever his name forget his name there were two young girls standing in front of me scraping pennies out of their purse to get in though we loved that character they wanted to come that night we 've got to get girls like that youngsters like that interested to come on other nights and then come again that 's what needs doing . . |
| 18 | Louise , who worked as a nurse , was not able to come that afternoon , she remembered . |
| 19 | Royston CAB has come some way towards solving the shelf space problem and the updating costs of holding more than one information system in a bureau . |
| 20 | See , he said , I told you you should n't have come this way . |
| 21 | The girl had come this way , she was sure . |
| 22 | She must have come this way often enough , she was a diligent churchgoer . ’ |
| 23 | The traffic that had caused the furrows a mile back could not have come this way . |
| 24 | ‘ It looks as if that car has come this way , ’ murmured Mary . |
| 25 | Follow the blue posts until the track meets an obvious forestry road , and as a reward for having come this way , a wooden seat . |
| 26 | But I met a man on the road to the other village — I 've pursued them over the mountain from Keswick and you know the road divides two ways — and he swore they had come this way . ’ |
| 27 | I had come this way a hundred times , always varying my route so as to avoid making more of a track than a rabbit might do . |
| 28 | It led through still more lofty halls and winding corridors quite big enough for a dragon ( and dragons had come this way once , it seemed ; there was a room lull of rotting harness , dragon-sized , and another room containing plate and chain mail big enough for elephants ) . |
| 29 | Nature before me has come this way , |
| 30 | So you have come this day from your little villages , your market towns , your cities , from mines and factories , or leaving the plough , to this city . |