Example sentences of "come [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was worse to come 2 minutes from time . |
| 2 | If he 'd like to come 100 yards down Yarm Road I would gladly take him on . ’ |
| 3 | On Monday , more academics swam in Johnson 's travelling aquarium : Principal Campbell , Professor Ross and a Dr Gerard , who had ‘ come six miles from the country on purpose ’ . |
| 4 | And the column has come three times , each time in the late afternoon . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've come three weeks early so that we can get in plenty of training , plus the three warm-up games . |
| 6 | They used to come three times a week with lumps of ice , oh as big as that , about as thick as that , in bags . |
| 7 | Even when she passed the two-furlong pole , some five lengths off the leaders , she knew she had them ; but if the post had come ten yards earlier , she would never have got up . |
| 8 | I said it had to come one day , did n't I ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Because of all that 's happened , ’ she says , such a move would have to come one step at a time . |
| 10 | They were trying more to come one place ahead of me than to win a medal . |
| 11 | The soldiers had come five months earlier . |
| 12 | Director of OEM and technology licensing for IBM 's advanced workstations and systems division , Lucian Bifano said ‘ Since the [ PowerPC ] agreement with Motorola and Apple 18 months ago , we speculated on who would be the first to market with a product ; we certainly did not expect it to come four months after our October announcement of the first silicon ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ I would n't trust them to people who 've had a year to get ready and still manage to come two hours late . |
| 14 | Can we catch up , by a little clairvoyance , on the persistent tendency of state provision to come thirty years late ? |
| 15 | Hadleigh 's winner came eight minutes before the end when Keys set up the chance for Smith to score his second with a shot on the run . |
| 16 | The final chapter in the story of imprisonment for debt came eight years later with the simultaneous passing in 1869 of the Debtors Act ( 32 & 33 Victoria cap 62 ) and the Bankruptcy Act ( 32 & 33 Victoria cap 71 ) . |
| 17 | A friend came eight years ago for his tea , he 's still here ! |
| 18 | Their call came fifty years to the day after an Oxford academic produced a report that became the corner-stone of the welfare state . |
| 19 | Acceptance of the pension plan by the workers came 12 months after Doug Burns , Senior Corporate Manager at Colmore Row Branch , first met executives from the engineering company . |
| 20 | Guatemala had signed the accession protocol in April [ see p. 38259 ] ; formal membership came 30 days after the notification that ratification procedures had been completed . |
| 21 | But their crucial score came 10 minutes from time when their wingers combined on the right and Sleightholme touched down . |
| 22 | Their release came 10 days after over 100 civilians had died in a crowded stadium in the capital , Mogadishu , when hecklers interrupted an address by Barre and called for his resignation ; his presidential guard reportedly fired shots into the air , then fired into the crowd , and a number of people were trampled to death during the subsequent melee . |
| 23 | His report came six months later in an altogether typical form . |
| 24 | That time came six years later . |
| 25 | Stan Wilson 's only previous experience of Wales came 45 years ago ten weeks basic training ( ‘ Private No. ’ ) with the Welsh Regiment in Brecon . |
| 26 | Terrified commuters were already reeling from the first explosion which went off in a flower bed at at 8.39am when the second , larger Semtex blast came 90 minutes later . |
| 27 | The second had a cap which was sewn with emeralds ; the third bore a pair of the high-heeled boots which great ladies wore to walk about the city ; and behind them , their faces solemn with barely suppressed mirth , came three women , a high-collared cloak folded lengthwise between them . |
| 28 | He was shocked when she told him that the gardener came three times a week and did not offer to mend it . |
| 29 | She came three times before he did , her legs wrapped round him , her screams muffled against the force of his hand . |
| 30 | He came three times a week , and was very eager to learn . |