Example sentences of "[noun pl] come [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She tried to sound playful , but somehow the words came out the wrong way .
2 Tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano ( b. 1952 ) has in some respects come up the hard way ; passing the 40-year mark last year , he 's nevertheless a craftsman often overlooked in the public eye in favour of younger more ‘ marketable ’ musicians .
3 Heaven help them all when the dailies came out the next day .
4 They are identical in the same way that the articles coming off a well-engineered assembly line are identical .
5 ‘ We had one of those social workers come round a few weeks ago — she was doing a sort of survey of old age pensioners — some idea that they could live on twenty-five shillings a week for food .
6 The national competition successes come just a few weeks after site newsletter Risley News was voted the north 's Newsletter of the Year at the Guardian Editing Awards , staged by the Northern region of the BAIE in Manchester .
7 In her innocence she had assumed that when all those wise and holy leaders came together the Holy Spirit would put one name into all their minds .
8 The fibres come off an industrial braider ; in effect , a giant knitting machine .
9 The men came down the stern ladder .
10 To win Test matches , one has to take wickets consistently , and a high proportion of chances come off the outside edge of the bat .
11 His mother 's claims come just a few days before the publication of a report into the case of seven mental patients , who died after they were discharged from hospital .
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