Example sentences of "[vb past] come [adv prt] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The forty seven year old aircraft failed to come out of a loop during a flying display at Woodford aerodrome near Manchester in June .
2 I needed to come up with a solution which avoided this overly defined focal point and used it at the same time .
3 His widow said yesterday : ‘ Money started coming in for a Denholm Elliott Project without me appealing for it and we already have several thousand pounds from British donations as well as £5,000 from Ibiza , where we lived .
4 It started coming back after a weekend seeing Darren .
5 We were in Glasgow last weekend , and were quite chuffed when Ewan consented to come out for a walk just with us two , as he clings to Joyce a bit at the moment .
6 Erm and it , it was us , I mean not only do we , I mean we develop her a a response , that means , we , we work with Councillor 's we work with Senior Officer 's in other departments and we look at the policy angles , like for example with , with that piece of legislation , when , when we first realised what the impact for that legislation was , it was gon na mean that we were ten million pound short in our housing money basically , that was , that was what it looked like on the surface and you think oh my god how you gon na make up for that short fall , that would mean an eleven pound a week rise in rent , that 's what it worked out as , so , well we ca n't do that , how , and then you have to look at the legislation and you say what are the loop holes here , and erm , and it involves contacting outside organisations and getting there opinion and finding out what other Council 's are doing and responding to things like this , and we did come up with a way , of , of reducing that deficit , but that 's the kind of thing we do .
7 He did come on as a substitute against er Oxford in midweek and Frank Clarke 's first signing injured his shoulder in this collision with Speedy .
8 Ford knew they had to come up with a winner in the Mondeo and I think they have done just that .
9 They had to come up with a plan of action on how to set up a Tyrolean Traverse to safety cross the 80 foot wide gorge — and come back again .
10 The second one was much more difficult because I had to come up with a script every couple of weeks , and there was so much crammed into each one .
11 ‘ Somehow , we had to come up with a method of telling the body that it was daytime when it thought it was nightime and vice versa , ’ he says .
12 I had to come back to a degree agreeing with them .
13 Peter Foley , who had come on as a substitute struck the upright with a powerful drive , for the ball to rebound clear .
14 Zeyer had come on as a defender to protect the score when Kaiserslautern levelled at 1–1 , but his role changed dramatically when Wednesday immediately hit back to make it 2–1 .
15 But this time the executive had come up with a compromise of sterling dimness .
16 Some time before , Malcolm had come up with a list of half a dozen names .
17 Ten years before that , ICI had come up with a world first with its Steam Naphtha reforming Process for the production of ammonia , methanol , hydrogen and town gas .
18 Community architecture had come about as a reaction to the tower blocks of the 1960s which were clearly not working : they had led to vandalism and mugging and terrifying isolation for the people who lived in them .
19 This crisis had come about as a result of the Emperor 's determination to carry through a series of far-reaching reforms which had actually been begun in a tentative fashion some years previously .
20 He was the first to admit that he had been psychologically screwed-up when he joined them after eleven years with the elite American anti-terrorist squad , Delta — a state of mind that had come about as a result of his last Delta mission .
21 An elderly female novelist had come in at a quarter to six and Penelope had found herself trying to explain why her latest novel had not been reviewed in the Sunday Telegraph , why it had not been advertised more widely , why copies had not been displayed on the bookstall of a friend 's local station , why it had not yet been reprinted .
22 Just before airtime , a story had come in on a drug bust : space was hastily made for this .
23 He had come in for a book of stamps , and when he had got it he joined Breeze , who was waiting on the Green .
24 If the literary establishment had thought to compare notes they would have realized that every male aura on and off Fleet Street had come in for a bashing .
25 When Rachel was finally writing up her reports at the end of the morning , Nina suddenly called her and asked if she could come and look at a young man who had come in with a skin rash .
26 ‘ You 're really down , are n't you ? – said Felix 's wife , who had come in with a jar of instant coffee and a jug of water no more than fairly hot , which increased Stephen 's worry that many things were falling behind .
27 But one of them is a copy-editor , I think that is what he is called , and he told me that he thought the item had come in from a friend of Leila 's . ’
28 They had come back as a fleet , their sails bellying out under the south-westerly gale , the men shouting to each other across the water to compare catches , and their womenfolk waiting on the beach to help with the unloading and to make a start on the gutting and salting and packing .
29 One of her few friends in the movement , whom she used to meet at Lockharts in the Strand for a poached egg once a week , had come down from a mill town in Lancashire in 1916 with nothing but two brown paper parcels .
30 He had come out of a nightmare with something of the steel town 's steel inside him .
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