Example sentences of "come [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently Hank 's divorce had come through sooner than expected , the deed was done one Saturday afternoon in the local Registrar 's Office , and she came back to Bourn wearing a wedding ring like a brass curtain ring ( Mary 's words ) , to await her discharge from the Waaf . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , yes — that has come through clearly enough . ’ |
| 3 | agree with that lady over there about er Queen , I think she does a wonderful job and , it 's come through lately there like she just suffers the same as any natural mother , their family , the way they live , the way their |
| 4 | Some kind of befriending scheme using volunteers would be a particularly promising approach , perhaps with people who have come through similarly difficult circumstances . |
| 5 | Robert Julius Matson had guessed right : the first train had come through just nine years after the town was founded in 1858 , pulling behind it the fertiliser works , the com mill , the seed-com warehouse , and with them the quiet prosperity that spawned the first Masonic lodge in 1871 , a voluntary fire brigade in ‘ 75 , the telephone in ‘ 84 and the first sewer in 1920 . |
| 6 | The combination bathroom and toilet was bitterly cold , and the water was freezing , hot water not having come through yet . |
| 7 | I know you you were telling me you you were applying for erm to get meals on wheels , but you ha that has n't come through yet . |
| 8 | ‘ Not come through yet . |
| 9 | Well that has n't come through yet ! |
| 10 | My hangover had come through okay . |
| 11 | He has come through quite well . |
| 12 | Profits are lower and earnings are lower than last year , but cash generation which we 've been working particularly hard on er for the past couple of years er and which we will be talking about further in a minute has come through extremely well er and we produced higher levels of cash this year than at any time in the company 's history . |
| 13 | We 've come through too much to get stopped here . ’ |
| 14 | I mean I 've just come through there and I had a car today and a girl was telling me her father erm opened his door last week er cataract and the , the wife , the granny blind too and there , the man from the water board was just going to switch off your water , just okay if I check your taps , three hundred pounds out the house |
| 15 | But he meant this to come for only a few days , not for an indefinite stay . |
| 16 | Critics say , however , that the commission failed to obtain the views of those outside the academic and political establishment and that any progress has come about independently of its work . |
| 17 | Thus it may soon come about ( may indeed have come about already ) that teachers will be advising ‘ average ’ pupils not to attempt the difficult questions ; or will separate them out to sit special papers suitable only for the F grades . |
| 18 | Norfolk , for example , lost 70 per cent of its rail network during the 1960s , but some closures had come about even before the 1963 Beeching Report , having been underway ever since postwar nationalization of the railways ( Moseley 1979a ) . |
| 19 | Its size and its stability have come about largely because , unlike the other oceans , the Pacific is made essentially of one tectonic plate — one of the eight plates that cover the surface of the earth . |
| 20 | The interest in primitive art had come about largely , of course , through the work of Gauguin . |
| 21 | The improvements in the accident rate have come about largely as a result of increased awareness about safety matters and a developing safety culture . |
| 22 | This has come about partly because of low rates of building in the past ( owing to a relatively small effective demand ) and partly because of stringent planning controls , which have restricted the rate of growth of new housing particularly in national parks and other scenically attractive areas ( see chapter 7 ) . |
| 23 | The answer to all of this is surely that it is not the legal qualities of limited liability or separate personality in themselves that justify intervention , but the concentration of power in private hands that has come about partly as a result of their existence . |
| 24 | This has come about partly as a result of research over the last 10 years or so into various forms of involvement in the teaching of reading . |
| 25 | This has come about partly because our main brand , Guinness stout , is able to complement the lager type beers of our brewers partners . |
| 26 | Given , therefore , that the company has come about essentially through private means , it must be understood as a private body , to be run by the corporators for their own self-selected purposes , and without any obligation to further the greater good . |
| 27 | It has come about entirely as a result of privatisation . |
| 28 | Cynics believe that the forums have come about merely because royal patronage has made them a fashionable activity for business leaders seeking a knighthood . |
| 29 | Often the most exciting work has come about precisely because those assumptions have been rejected . |
| 30 | A small victory really , because the decisive defeat of the bottles had come about long ago , shortly after I learned to throw , when I first realised the sea was an enemy . |