Example sentences of "come [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had come through her sternest test , she had proven the singing budgie brigade was woefully wrong and that she was now ready to take her career into the even more rarefied atmosphere occupied by only a tiny handful of superstars . |
| 2 | ‘ I was in the sitting room and I could have been killed if they had come through my side , ’ she said . |
| 3 | Like the rest of his peers , Newton 's signings have come through his own personal network . |
| 4 | The men from the Rathcoole district waited for the order to come for their release , but nothing happened . |
| 5 | ‘ I found Tobermory sleeping in the smoking-room , and called out to him to come for his tea . |
| 6 | I was asked why I had come about my father , why he was in prison , and many other questions . |
| 7 | He called his officers to come aboard his ship . |
| 8 | There is an alternative to either of these courses which may be worth considering and that is that the Government should take the line that they have come to the conclusion that , while some restriction ought to be made in the infliction of the death penalty , the time has not yet come for its complete abolition . |
| 9 | ‘ I suppose yow 've come for yer interest ? ’ said Dad sharply . |
| 10 | He had come for his own ends to this island , and used it . |
| 11 | The other three have not come for his sake . |
| 12 | I 've come for our game . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Nay , you 've not come for my sake — that 's clear . |
| 14 | Therefore , the time has come for my right hon. Friend to exercise our 40 per cent . |
| 15 | And my Dad used to say Go to Mr 's , and tell him you 've come for your Dad 's meat . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've come for your help . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Ah , ’ she said , ‘ you 've come for your little mistress ! |
| 18 | ‘ Laura , I have actually come for your help . ’ |
| 19 | Though the volume of cars sold has come off its peak , the damage caused to this market by high interest rates has been less marked than in , say , housing . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He had come off his motor-bike . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A boy has come off his motor-cycle at the roundabout outside the main gates . |
| 24 | to come as his wife . |
| 25 | And if you recall some time ago we wrote and said we would like the buses that go down Station Lane Edingley to come through our village . |
| 26 | But what they were asking for our support would we also write to the bus companies again and urge them instead of the buses going down Station Lane to come through our village . |
| 27 | President Taraki pointed out that ‘ some of the countries joining the Movement as full-fledged members may have come after their dissociation from aggressive regional military pacts and alliances ’ . |
| 28 | ( The education of Dustin towards some understanding of feminism , even though mainly in theory rather than in practice , was only to come after his divorce , the making of Kramer vs Kramer and Tootsie , and marriage to a woman who did not put his ideas to the test . ) |
| 29 | It therefore seemed logical to press a little of every suitable plant in her garden and later to create a design from it that would remind her for many years to come of her treasured garden . |
| 30 | When I asked my mother what she was doing , she replied : ‘ I thought if nothing were to come of your relationships , I could cut them out of the photographs ! ’ |