Example sentences of "[coord] come [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Yet vestigial gestures towards value persist , usually at the end of an exposition , where the critic in a final flourish claims , or at least hopes , that something valuable has emerged from the analysis ; a revelation of the quality of the author 's imagination ; or of the inevitable tendency of all texts to be about their own processes of composition , or to come apart in the reader 's hand ; or of the aesthetic fascination of the patterns of imagery that have been revealed ; or , at the very least , and least interestingly , that something ‘ interesting ’ will have been said .
2 THE TVP 's crank-driven DIY rock ‘ n ’ roll may sound dated in these wearing , uncaring times , but that said they still have n't lost the knack of pulling a good tune from seemingly nowhere or coming up with an idea that will tug at your sleeve for attention .
3 They like to be able to go to a show and to be able to see something that they do n't see in their everyday lives — you know , catching the bus to go work or coming home on the bus .
4 A stocky , even heavy woman , with straight blonde hair that was parted in the middle and otherwise unregulated , she padded about with firm , deliberate steps , not looking much at anyone , not smiling easily as Caroline did , only nodding indifferently when Alice caught a glimpse of her through a door or coming efficiently through the hall .
5 It 's not got to court for sort of like , four or five weeks get adjourned or come up to the police station and then like get your hand slapped .
6 I assure him I will return with a treaty that I can recommend to the House or come back without a treaty .
7 However , there is an attempt to set up a message desk , where if your phone , at the moment , switchboard will put calls through to you , if you do n't answer by a certain number of rings , it will either divert to another number or come back to the switchboard .
8 He would linger on those delivery trips and stay for dinner or tea or come back via the Talbot , the pub across the road , although he was under age .
9 Young people who have completed GCSEs at 16 can choose whether to stay on at school or college , or come out into the labour market and , possibly , take an entitlement to YT .
10 Trist and his colleagues were invited to study the problem and to come up with a solution .
11 What we would expect you to do is to consider various alternative methods of pricing and to come out with a recommendation .
12 Billy Graham like all such evangelists called for people from the congregation to make an immediate decision and to come out from the crowd ; and Ramsey wrote that the call for an immediate decision had danger because the mind could be stifled in the process and this could bring a later revenge in scepticism and indifference .
13 It was probable that with a type of aggravated libel , and a defence that was blatantly bogus and came apart during the trial , they decided to add a nought to the amount of damages . ’
14 They did not leave her as she closed the door and drew the curtain over it , and came forward into the room .
15 The declaration coincided with the visit of President Alfredo Cristiani to the United States and came ahead of a vote in the US Congress on a proposal to cut military aid to El Salvador by half .
16 But even if he chose lucky and came straight for the exit I had taken , I reckoned I could make at least twenty yards before he would open the door behind me .
17 Doone arrived very soon after Tremayne had gone and came straight to the point .
18 ‘ But Headmistress , the child only arrived in school this morning and came straight to the classroom … ’
19 He stepped back onto the concrete and came round to the front of the building where the flowering cherries were just coming into bud on the lawn .
20 As was proved when , without replying to her question about the interview , he left the driver 's seat and came round to the passenger 's door .
21 When we sat down for our sandwiches , I made him go away with the grisly thing , but we could still hear him crunching away behind a rock — first a crunch then a cough as he swallowed a feather , then another crunch then more coughs until he realised there was no future in it and came round for a sandwich .
22 He duelled briefly with the Triplane , lost it , and came round in a wide , searching turn .
23 From that school of mingled games , friendliness and lessons I went with but a short pause to one where lessons were business , and a very serious business indeed since most of the scholars had already begun to work in offices and came here in the evenings to qualify themselves to earn more money and more leisure .
24 Mr Phillips heard the noise , and came slowly to the front of the schoolroom .
25 Without answering , she left the room and came slowly down the stairs .
26 In the rucksack in which she seemed to keep half her life she burrowed and came up with a biro and writing-pad .
27 There were some who drove straight on , but most wound down their windows or allowed the clowns on their coaches , had a friendly word and came up with a contribution .
28 Hoomey took off as usual , holding his nose , and came up with a shriek that probably carried as far as the bridge party two streets away .
29 Oxford kept their cool though and came up with a winner 5 minutes from time .
30 ‘ I studied the problem and came up with a blueprint .
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