Example sentences of "come [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adding the screw-on cranes until the brush emerged from the chimney , I pulled it down amidst a great cloud of soot — but the brush must have come unscrewed half-way , and there it remained . |
| 2 | He 'd met her on the beach walking with a dog , a wire-haired terrier called Dolly which had come sniffing up to him . |
| 3 | For a second the wind was blocked and the weight taken from my hands , only to come crashing back in double measure . |
| 4 | Encased in dry-suits , they struggled out into the bay to come crashing in on their boards . |
| 5 | ‘ Even in the last year , barriers have come tumbling down , ’ says Miss Joynson-Hicks . |
| 6 | I have been listening to ‘ Shepherd Moons ’ for three days straight , packing for a bunk to the Islamic world and every moment of departure in my entire life has come tumbling out of my memory , often erupting in tears . |
| 7 | Anger of a kind ; what could those girls , students most likely , know about her life , bloody cheek to come wading in and try and organise your life like that . |
| 8 | If she 's so anxious about my welfare and morals it 's a wonder she has n't come stamping up here to check out the situation for herself . |
| 9 | And , yes , Edward could point out that we live in a time when the very meaning of the word myth has been debased , that it has come to signify only what is untrue , false , misleading ; and , yes , I could largely agree that it is nevertheless by myths we live , and what matters is how large the contrary truths a myth reconciles in its embrace . |
| 10 | As her love for Stephen had grown , she had come to see clearly that she should have been more open with him at the beginning . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've come to see where you live . ’ |
| 12 | Aw , hell , said the slut in her , it 's me she 's come to see not a tidy flat . |
| 13 | I have come to see how your house is . |
| 14 | Welcomed in his loneliness into the congregation of a lively evangelical parish church in a northern suburb of London , he had come to see how he might be finally delivered from inconsequence . |
| 15 | I do n't know when he goes , I have n't heard the story properly , cos I was upstairs and , er well Ron was half way upstairs and Eileen come on to the landing and I was in the bathroom , so I says I 'll come down , no she says you need n't bother cos we 're not staying we 've only just er come to see how you are |
| 16 | Well this is , this for a market research has come to see how often they 're used . |
| 17 | This is the conclusion which many , approaching by this or similar routes , have come to see as inevitable , after the successive failures to prove that principles of conduct can be grounded in the existence of God , or in Kant 's Categorical Imperative validated a priori like ‘ two and two make four ’ , or in the biological facts of evolution or the psychological facts of human needs . |
| 18 | At the end of it , just before Myeloski had given in to the rough flight conditions , Duncan had come to realize how sharp the policeman was , how through his individual approach he had put together clues that most others would have missed . |
| 19 | He looks at its age-old mysteries and traditions as well as the modern rituals and victuals that we have come to enjoy today . |
| 20 | Nearly fifty years ago Peggy Lucas walked out across an airfield to fly a Spitfire for the first time … now she 's about to come bang up to date with a helicopter . |
| 21 | Nearly fifty years ago Peggy Lucas walked out across an airfield to fly a Spitfire for the first time … now she 's about to come bang up to date with a helicopter . |
| 22 | The Museum of Transport was pleased with the result and now knows where to come to drive out other pests and steer clear of further trouble . |
| 23 | One by one , the royal marriages have come crashing down — Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips divorced , the Duke and Duchess of York separated and now Prince Charles and Princess Diana 's marriage is exposed as a sham . |
| 24 | It felt as if my whole world had come crashing down on me . |
| 25 | They waited for some long-legged creature to come stepping delicately out of the trees . |
| 26 | So the head catcher decides that the moment has come to go in and bring the captives out , starting with the calves . |
| 27 | Herbert also penned the verses which have come to sum up the general fate of such investigations : |
| 28 | we could actually make you a bit bit A lot better than this , and I think the time has come to adjust how we 're treating you a little bit . |
| 29 | ‘ When you asked me to come into your bedroom my heart was beating so fast I thought it was going to come leaping out ! ’ |
| 30 | The session was short , the smile fading from the face of the accused as Mrs Balanchine described in detail how the car had come storming around a blind corner and swung in close to the wall where they were waiting to cross . |