Example sentences of "[pers pn] come [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's also good for them to come to a new school and know at least one face there . |
| 2 | The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu , K. O. P. M. Karunanidhi , was given the responsibility of talking to the various Tamil groups to persuade them to come to a peaceful settlement after the withdrawal of the IPKF . |
| 3 | The heading ‘ Letterman productions , Hollywood , London , paris ’ , with a movie camera logo , seems to me to come from a comic book , but it obviously reminds Mr Shah of his brief association with Ava Gardner , Clark Gable and John Ford . |
| 4 | On the same holiday I came across a sandy bank in a patch of sun — except that the patch was a dazzling blue . |
| 5 | I came across a striking example of this recently in the story of John Hyde nicknamed ‘ Praying Hyde ’ , a missionary to India early in this century . |
| 6 | until I came across a small display above bottles of castor oil , laxa suppositories and a well known laxative was a sign reduced for clearance ! |
| 7 | During this research I came across a startling discrepancy in various fishkeeper 's views on this species . |
| 8 | Herscovici says : ‘ At a Foundation in Madrid , I came across a fake Magritte which had been slipped into into an official exhibition so that it could be reproduced in the catalogue without my permission in order to achieve legitimacy . |
| 9 | Around that time I came across a dog-eared treatise on the 1968 student uprisings , in particular the LSE sit-in . |
| 10 | Beyond yet another bridge , for Victorian ingenuity had been hard at work here , I came across a torrential waterfall labelled ‘ salmon weir , . |
| 11 | ‘ WHEN clearing-up a glory hole , viz the cupboard under the stairs , I came across an anonymous parcel . |
| 12 | In a miscellaneous pile of documents , I came across the following essay . |
| 13 | I came across the expected pitch ’ below the wedged boulders , which Wainwright describes as ‘ The one difficulty , above which is nothing but simple scrambling to the top . ’ |
| 14 | It 's his age that is against him , but he 's helped me a great deal since I came into the Irish squad . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I came into the first form of his boarding school . |
| 16 | It was only 5.30 pm when I came into the main hospital building , but a cheeky nurse said ‘ Bon soir , Miss Veness , parlez-vous Francaise ? |
| 17 | So , when at last I came to a small village with a large church , I decided that perhaps the priest might be the best person to tell me where these prehistoric pagans buried their dead . |
| 18 | I had already gathered from the groom that Sir John had not left so , when I came to a small copse of trees , I took my horse deep inside , hobbled it and sat on a boulder . |
| 19 | Open pastureland succeeded the neglected wood as I walked on , and soon I came to a rough circle of boulders on a mound — Lisheen , the little fort , home of fairies . |
| 20 | Soon I came to a strange place where the river divided , one part of it compressed as a hurling white torrent between steep artificial banks , the other part let into a tranquil canal that entered Galway from the countryside . |
| 21 | At nine o'clock , after twelve miles , I came to a slippery escarpment , a cascade of sand tumbling five hundred feet to a plain which , in spite of a slight haze , I could see stretching some sixty miles south and west . |
| 22 | Separate from my parents in another country , I came to a new knowledge of me as a self apart . |
| 23 | Five hours later , after I had passed beneath a crudely-lettered blue notice board that welcomed travellers to the unpeopled jungle vastness of Darién , I came to a wooden sign that said simply ‘ Sante Fé ’ . |
| 24 | Sure enough there was the Marina but this was not pegged and after walking under a railway bridge I came to the first peg , number 65 . |
| 25 | A quiver of anguish passed along my spine as I came to the last dish . |
| 26 | I remember learning this lesson painfully when as a new curate I came to the weekly staff meeting in Cranham . |
| 27 | When I came to the third class , the head introduced me as the ‘ expert from London ’ . |
| 28 | The rooms could have been empty , it was impossible to tell , and in fact when I came to the special dining car I found a good number of the passengers sitting at the unlaid tables , just chatting . |
| 29 | I came to the rapid conclusion that anyone tackling it must be either incredibly brave , extremely stupid — or both ! |
| 30 | Then I came to the fourth floor landing and Toby 's door opened and there he was . |