Example sentences of "come the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | There are old men still up there who say , ‘ Your old man was a wonderful five-eighth , but he used to come the knuckle . ’ |
2 | In years to come the percentage difference is likely to be much larger . |
3 | Only those situations which are really knotted , with personality or relationship difficulties of long standing , tend to come the way of a qualified or specialist social worker for elderly people . |
4 | In years to come the commercialisation of BR via sectorisation could well be seen by historians as important as grouping and nationalisation . |
5 | ‘ I told him to come the day before the operation , ’ she says ‘ I thought I 'd still be looking fairly reasonable then . ’ |
6 | ‘ I shall still want you to come the day after tomorrow . ’ |
7 | Still to come the day 's sporting action , but first financial report in association with Barclay 's Bank for your financial needs . |
8 | Even if some of the signs of upturn , of turn around , of better things to come the government are trying to trumpet at the moment . |
9 | The National Curriculum gives through design and technology , maths , science and subjects yet to come the potential for developing practical skills as never before . |
10 | Still to come the future of the Jet project at Culham . |
11 | The answer to it I just do n't know , but the Food Safety Act deals with some of the future , some of the future objectives in terms of better training for people who handle food , and tighter controls on food businesses , so it 's something to look forward to , and hopefully in years to come the figure will begin to drop . |
12 | Although it will probably never be a picture postcard village , during the last two or three years some farmers have started to replace the hedges that were removed a generation ago , and to plant trees , so perhaps in years to come the parish will again look something like the pictures of it in days gone by , less bleak and windswept than it does today . |
13 | Even in the year we won the league , there were worrying signs that the defence could be very fragile when teams made the effort to really attack us — hence the 4 goals conceded against man city and QPR — which was a sign of things to come the season after . |
14 | This is less satisfactory for the vendor , however , as it will remain liable as tenant of the landlord and there is a risk that in years to come the purchaser may be unable to pay the rent . |
15 | How come the board have allowed Cuntona to go for a sing and a prayer ? |
16 | In recent years , however , has come the realisation that adults learn best when they have a say in what and how they learn . |
17 | She had known they were n't going to make love the moment the sound of that door being either opened or closed had penetrated , and flooding in had come the memory that she was Mr and Mrs Hepwood 's guest . |
18 | Then had come the shock of seeing a face peering out at him from the attic window . |
19 | The money has come the Government 's waiting list initiative . |
20 | After the film noir of punk had come the escapist musical spectacular of ‘ the new pop ’ , demonstrated in a wild flamboyance which banished the austerity of punk rock to the shadows . |
21 | With peace had come the School 's first Sixth Form as that term is understood today , with nine members . |
22 | Her great-grandparents had lived in this house ; it was her great-grandfather who had bought the farm ; but from where had come the money for a Polish immigrant to buy a farm in those far-off days remained a mystery to both her grandfather and , of course , her father . |
23 | As he had grown older , his anger had turned to cold bitterness , and creeping into his mind had come the idea of revenge , something subtle enough to humble his mother , make her realize that he lived , without killing her . |
24 | After the initial decision to continue my trip had come the fight to quell bitterness . |
25 | Together with ‘ efficiency ’ and good management principles has come the crying need for experts to take charge of every field . |
26 | You know , how come the bar managers |
27 | erm , how come the bar meals used to be so cheap when the canteen 's . |
28 | Say what you like about Eliza Grierson , she was a very particular housewife , so how come the flat was in this state ? |
29 | Then , quite out of the blue , there had come the offer of a job at Marlborough ; for although I had resolved to abandon teaching , I had found , like so many others , that of all the means of earning one 's bread , freelance authorship was among the most precarious . |
30 | With the adoption of Christianity by kings and their subjects had come the conception of the " Christian ruler " , for Christ had been the " King of the Jews " and the society of the Old Testament was a kingly and patriarchal one . |