Example sentences of "come a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Duttons had come a hundred years before to the long straggling village of Sherborne in the archaically beautiful Borne Valley , where Thomas Dutton had built the original house of Sherborne Park in 1551 . |
| 2 | The Waughs came a 5 & 3 cropper in their third-round match against the Boyds , of The Berkshire . |
| 3 | First came a 7,000 mile , six day round trip from ocean to ocean for Rugby Canada 's two games in Newfoundland ; then back to the west coast with all the healthy B.C. players involved in one or more of the eight games undertaken against Swansea and Northumberland . |
| 4 | I think that would defeat the object in small places because you can hear these diesel cars coming a hundred miles away , in the later hours you can |
| 5 | ‘ I did n't come a thousand miles , ’ he muttered into the microphone , ‘ to kill babies , or to support their killing . |
| 6 | There is an hour when I must die , Nor do I know how soon ‘ twill come A thousand children , young as I , Are call 'd by death to hear their doom . |
| 7 | If , as is likely , this one is a female , she will suddenly whistle a call and out of the hole come a dozen youngsters which bustle eagerly about her , groping with their muzzles for her teats . |