Example sentences of "[noun sg] come [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 For a drainage level to come in at this depth would have required some 600 ft. of tunnelling and of course , since the art of blasting was not yet introduced , it would have been a protracted and costly operation .
2 ‘ I do n't know how he 's got the neck to come back to these parts . ’
3 I have still not managed to find another young horse to come on with young Basil .
4 Overseas aid came in from many quarters ( including South Africa ) ; the landlocked Zambians brought in health officials from all their neighbours to try to limit the spread of the disease , which nevertheless struck Malawi .
5 The amazing prediction came yesterday by controversial agent Ambrose Mendy , the man behind Nigel Benn 's rise to fame .
6 In 1978 Allan concluded her survey of such research by writing : As a result different research came up with different findings so that the policy maker and practitioner ended up with long lists of poorly defined and sometimes contradictory characteristics .
7 The boat came down between two waves , and Grace quickly got her oars out .
8 Greville Starkey 's riding of the horse came in for fierce criticism , but he made no mistake in Dancing Brave 's next race , drawing right away from Triptych to win the Coral-Eclipse Stakes at Sandown Park .
9 At least they did not encounter what the builders of the Moscow Underground came up against many years later , a quicksand in their path .
10 The top-placed battery car came in at eighth place .
11 Erm , he was , on the first and second day , he was second in class and sixty fifth over all and then he was , the next day he was sec still second in class and fifty fifth over all and then once the prop shaft or something 's broken , yeah I 've got a spare one , but the car came back in one bit so erm , he 's got an interview with T V S next week I think or the week after because erm when Rob lent him something that erm , did his , did a lot of it 's nothing to do with erm , they sponsored him two thousand pounds
12 The small railway outpost had the Indian sign on it when closure came entirely on I January 1917 in the midst of World War I. However , some five years later the GWR had a change of heart and decided to reopen the station to goods traffic on 18 September 1922 .
13 Hence , when the news of ILG 's collapse came through on 8 March last year , Airtours simply had to send its negotiators back to buy up Intasun 's beds .
14 If the green light came on for either project , the paper would go straight to capitalization as a commercial company .
15 Harvey produced a key for the third and a red light came on over each lock .
16 — STRESSHOLME Golf Club came in for high praise yesterday after staging the Mizuno Tournament a major event for assistant professionals .
17 Opposition came mainly from former Communists , who as the Democratic Left Alliance were the second-largest party in the Sejm .
18 Well I tell you what I was doing , I was in the stern of the boat coming ashore with one oar in the stern of the boat , I was like hell you know , and I was standing on the sculling .
19 Perhaps she had been taking too little care , or perhaps it was the strain of the bereavement coming out in physical symptoms .
20 I think there 's a day of action coming up on this sort of D I Y stuff .
21 Speed comes partly from good footwork anyway .
22 I listen to it quite often ( not this week though ) but I thought maybe someone could get on ( after we beat Blackburn ! ! ! ) and go National about the net ( especially if the piece comes out in square ball ) .
23 And where the source of light comes mostly from one side , as when plants are growing under a hedge , stems often bend and stretch in that direction .
24 Nor is this influence obvious or straightforward , for a major reason why different research comes up with different findings and has different implications for policy and practice is that those findings are subject to different underlying assumptions and have different ideological agendas .
25 Each and every act of every agent comes out of this machine . ’
26 The archbishop came back under papal orders to avoid giving offence to the king .
27 Yet a tradition of urban centres of political power had been clearly established , and the members of the ruling class who were to determine the course of revolution and change came largely from urban backgrounds .
28 Not surprisingly the concept of dominant ideology came in for some discussion .
29 The Sinclair Spectrum came in for particular criticism .
30 Sky fell fast asleep when the bidding came up for Italian football — that 's ironic , since they had shown it so compulsively themselves .
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