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

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1 The legend recounted how seventy translators had worked in independent cells and had all come up with the identical version of the sacred text .
2 ‘ If you 'd be kind enough to come down to the front door , I 'll explain everything . ’
3 Now , obviously I 'm not going to talk about profits from the T V division just now , because Thames only came in at the half year , and we 're not including any profits from B Sky B in the half year , but it 's likely that we 'll take some de-loan stock interest in at the year end .
4 Of all the Soviet nationalities , the Baltic nations looked the most likely to establish ( or as they saw it , resume ) their independent statehood in the 1990s ; their opportunity to do so came soon after the attempted coup when ( in September 1991 ) the USSR Council of State formally approved their independent status and they were admitted into the United Nations and other international organisations .
5 The kitten lived to be nine , so came out of the whole business best , I suppose .
6 This was when the need to live together came not from the older generation , but from the child 's own family .
7 They 'll all come off in the first wash .
8 Mr McEd was acting pretty cagey about it for one thing and , when pressed , would only come up with the reassuring phrases : ‘ Every cloud has a silver lining Ed … ’ or ‘ Do n't worry son , you father 's not such an old fool as he looks …
9 For a period of the late 16th century it appears to have come into the possession of the Earls of Leicester but eventually came back into the full possession of Trinity College , which remained lord of the manor until quite recent times .
10 ‘ The Indians who initally came here in the Sixties had skills and capital which allowed them to move into small businesses , ’ said Dr Owen , research fellow at the Centre for Ethnic Relations at Warwick University .
11 This duly came about with the Environmental Protection Act 1990 ( EPA ) .
12 And a similar state of affairs had meanwhile come about on the other side of the lines .
13 Let's say you receive a call in your boss ' office , on your boss ' phone , it 's just come through to the wrong one .
14 An Oxford aid worker who 's just come back from the Croatian capital Zagreb , says the situation there is getting out of hand .
15 Only a party bigot would claim that they had somehow come in with the Conservative Government three years earlier .
16 He just came on in the same purposeful manner and Maggie backed away , a little alarmed and suddenly remembering why she was here .
17 She might have sat all afternoon , nibbling and stuporous , exhausted but not sleepy ; but the glazier finally came down from the upper floor , cheerfully announcing that all was now right and tight and he would be on his way .
18 The sun was just coming up over the far bank , trailing a red reflection across the water .
19 Caballeros and Bugner were just coming up onto the 18th green to prolonged applause from the huge crowd in the three grandstands .
20 There followed a frantic exchange of telegrams between Rangoon and Whitehall in which the Governor offered various solutions to the prevailing deadlock , finally coming up with the unexpected suggestion that a new coalition ministry was possible with Paw Tun , the last premier of Burma before the invasion ; U Saw , his predecessor as premier , an unscrupulous schemer who had been interned for dealing with the Japanese ; and Aung San , previously portrayed by Dorman-Smith as a murderer and an enemy .
21 They finally come together at the lowest level of their relationship .
22 The hubbub outside comes not from the picturesque traders of the bazaar but from some 500 fans pleading for a glimpse of their idol .
23 One of the soldiers wanted to know if it was true that Medoc was preparing for the birth into the world of the monster god-idol , Crom Croich , and an argument sprang up as to whether Medoc and Crom Croich were the most evil and most powerful forces ever to come out of the Dark Ireland , or whether the Erl-King had been worse .
24 I think it 's the worse example of pure political self-indulgence that I have ever come across in the eight ye nearly eight years on this Council
25 Curtailed in his researches he may have been , but Gould still came away from the parched furnace of the scrubs with some of the rarest novelties yet of his collection and a vast number of specimens of every description .
26 She got out of bed and thought everything over very carefully , and although it was difficult to keep emotion out of it , she still came back to the self-same answer .
27 People and cars always came in through the big double gates .
28 After spending some time there ( as if we were actually present ) we will gradually come back to the present day , and as we do so we will become more reflective and try and push the present away from us — making it strange — by maintaining a certain distance from our immediate history .
29 So you would like come in to the main entrance and then
30 Saturday 's 2-1 win was Sunderland 's third in succession and Crosby said : ‘ We can still come up on the blind side .
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