Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afterwards they went scouting for clays that could be re-used ; some cracked on landing , but others had come down whole . |
| 2 | People were literally afraid to come down town . |
| 3 | They used to give us gum and sweets everything and the , they sometimes , the military police they used to come down town and they 'd be after deserters from Lichfield and |
| 4 | Sandy McGlashan had arrived late , his hair plastered down with sweat ; he was spluttering over the tale , to whoever would listen , of how he had ‘ come up flemyng and Menzies of Bolfracks , in the street at Aberfeldy , they had their heads together and were plotting something wicked , no doubt about it , if only he could have heard what they were saying ’ . |
| 5 | Similarly in Britain , a party can win several thousand votes in each constituency yet not come out top of the poll in any ; in consequence , it amasses a large popular vote but no seats in Parliament . |
| 6 | He wished his voice had not come out piping and shrill . |
| 7 | The Rover 600 is the latest , newest model to come out od Cowley and it represents more than anything else the regeneration of the works . |
| 8 | So were there any , nowadays you know if there 's any opportunities to come back part time , if you 've got small children . |
| 9 | The former England midfielder , who is expected to be player-coach , said before leaving for the talks : ‘ I would be happy to come back north and it will be great to be working with Howard again . ’ |
| 10 | Cos it came on sort of about middle of the day . |
| 11 | They went up to Scotland for your christening , 'eighty-three , it must have been no 'eighty-four , and when they came down south again , they came to my office and the wills were drawn up . ’ |
| 12 | As you came down town for my sake really |
| 13 | ‘ We had tea there , before we came up West . ’ |
| 14 | It is the word which came up time and again in the story of Jacob 's tricking his dying father . |
| 15 | Came back door , I opened the door and er he had a big holdall you know |
| 16 | And because people knew he was going to do so , they came back night after night to see how things were changed . |
| 17 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 18 | Mr Pascall 's emphasis came back time and time again to the idea of a ‘ framework ’ : ‘ The purpose of the national curriculum , ’ he said , ‘ is to ensure that there is a framework so that we can be confident that every child has the opportunity to read widely , to develop the habit of reading and to develop the love and understanding of literature . |
| 19 | When he came back Breeze was sitting curled up by the fire in the quaint but attractive parlour , her eyes fixed thoughtfully on the dancing flames . |
| 20 | ‘ Just , always came back Pres , he always agreed go ahead , ’ replied Poindexter . |
| 21 | THE West Country , together with East Anglia , came out top in a recent satisfaction survey by the National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts . |
| 22 | Tit for Tat itself , indeed , came out top in five out of six runs of Round 3 , just as it had in Rounds 1 and 2 . |
| 23 | Indeed , in a recent independent survey by a leading German University , the Esslingen Technical College , of over 20 selected brands of tennis rackets , in which the aim was to establish which racket had the best vibration dampening properties , the Protagon TM 500 came out top . |
| 24 | Amid the storm over the criteria used , a Bangor school , which by its own admission existed on a low profile in the past , came out top in Northern Ireland in a recent newspaper guide to choosing the best of education . |
| 25 | He came out top in the mechanical engineering section of the competition , run by CAD User magazine . |
| 26 | The answer came out pat , like a bar of chocolate from an automatic machine , stale and predictable . |
| 27 | The information only came out bit by bit since she 's still not easy in her mind about talking to us . |
| 28 | If women could only have one child , girls came out head and shoulders favourite , with only half as many choosing boys . |
| 29 | The leading man came out arm in arm with a girl with corkscrew curls , followed by a chap in a duffle coat , who wore a monocle and flashed a sardonic smile as though he was a member of the SS . |
| 30 | For a moment the porch shadowed her , then the moon came out form behind the dissipating clouds . |