Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | " He also buys and sells antiques for a living and he has promised to come down next week and have a proper look and then perhaps take a few things back to London to some man he knows who is an expert on Oriental China and objets d'art . " |
| 32 | I do n't think it is , I think , no , I think you 've got to come down another pattern . |
| 33 | I told you not to come down those blasted stairs on your own . ’ |
| 34 | So you know we 've got enough courage to come down this end . |
| 35 | Also , I 'd like to come over all clichéd now and say that it seems that you do get what you pay for , and while the Hohner is a very capable bass I would personally bypass this mid-price level and put the money to something else . |
| 36 | Obviously inspired by MADONNA 's example , ( and it seems that she 's about to be millions of dollars richer as over half a million copies of Sex changed hands last week ) CURVE have decided to come over all raunchy and are releasing a Stateside compilation which goes under the provocative title of ‘ Pubic Fruit ’ , although whose pubes are involved we are not informed . |
| 37 | But if you 'd like to come over this evening — ? ’ |
| 38 | It has to be said that when Dustin has co-starred in a movie with as big a star as he — McQueen , Redford , Beatty or Connery — he has come off second best . |
| 39 | BREATHLESS PC Les Pounder was always going to come off second best when he set off in pursuit of a pub fight suspect . |
| 40 | Crash is perhaps the operative word , for it is in the realms of physical engagement that the Scots — who won the Dubai tournament — look likely to come off second best . |
| 41 | ‘ I 've told my promoter Barry Hearn that I want it to come off next September and I want it to be outdoors . |
| 42 | A plaster is due to come off this week . |
| 43 | I had come up real short on the gratuitous sex and violence so far . |
| 44 | Erm , Simon , there 's one that 's come up right field in the fact that we mention , I think you might have got it 'cos you 're responsible for the Q P five , which talks about interim reports , services . |
| 45 | After all they had been force-fed about the godliness of the Khomeini regime , here was Reagan as a ‘ man of God ’ ( North 's words ) who had gone away for a ‘ whole weekend ’ to pray about the Frankfurt meeting and had come up all by himself with an inscription for a Bible to be given to the Iranians . |
| 46 | And this man used to go up , do you know I 've heard my father say he 's come up three or four times a week and help him and when they slaughtered the things they used to have the slaughterhouse down the piste years ago , as I 'm talking about sixty , sixty , seventy years ago , sixty years ago , where they used to slaughter the stuff , you see , down the piste and this was the Christmas show this was , all these hindquarters of beef . |
| 47 | It was a year since he had come up this steep , winding avenue . |
| 48 | ‘ I think you 'd better come up quick . |
| 49 | take and he used to come up pissed out of his mind at night |
| 50 | ‘ The plants are sometimes wrongly labelled and boxes of mixed plants have been known to come up all the same colour . ’ |
| 51 | So , I mean , they was trying to come up one day so I could watch the telly and I really needed to . |
| 52 | It 's not mentioned anywhere I think it ought to come up first in Q P9 does n't it ? |
| 53 | She has three children , one under the age of one , and has to come up four flights of stairs to her home many times a day . |
| 54 | The landlord is not prepared to come up front and say that 's what he 's doing . |
| 55 | But you wanted to come up this way . |
| 56 | Used to come up purple as well as pink . |
| 57 | Mum an , mum and dad expected me to come up last week |
| 58 | What do you think would happen if the Duke of Sutherland 's paintings , which include four great Titians and the Poussin ‘ Seven Sacraments ’ among other masterpieces , were to come up next month ? |
| 59 | Lessing consulted Dinah , who had come back tired from an evening full of accidents ; the scenery had fallen , the lesser lady had not come in on cue , the leading man had been a failure and she would have to find someone else . |
| 60 | By opportunities for learning that can be at depth , about learning about ourselves , but also the practical things like what do you say to a child whose father 's come back mutilated from war erm how do you write a letter to a bereaved person , and I think children I mean they are capable of doing this , I 've seen it with my own children , with some help they 're able to express quite deep emotions , you know , to somebody who 's had a bereavement , and if they can learn that now , you know , it 's going to be a lot easier later on . |