Example sentences of "[vb past] come [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was England who crept off , licked their wounds , and tried to come up with all sorts of weird and wonderful reasons for us beating them . |
| 2 | Objective probability applies to those events which have been tested previously and found to come up with consistent results . |
| 3 | Last autumn he won round one when President Bush appointed him to lead a cabinet ‘ empowerment task force ’ , told to come up with specific proposals . |
| 4 | Jasper Carrott and Hale and Pace did impromptu performances — and everyone there pledged to come back in two years ' time . |
| 5 | Reports began to come in of successful strikes on other vehicles . |
| 6 | But Elsie Birdsall and Lavinia Thwaites kept coming in with all kinds of things to try and get me going — home-made soups , arrowroot , custards — and finally I began to mend a little . |
| 7 | But the attempt to remove the deer failed in both forests , because fresh stock kept coming in from adjoining woods . |
| 8 | D Rae new machine working well , but he had come up against MS-Works limitations . |
| 9 | By that date Moscow had provided a mere three and a half million roubles , and one million had come in from other gubernii . |
| 10 | The waiting-room was moderately full and there were several clients who had come in from neighbouring villages . |
| 11 | Then , of course , the other side was his interest in Child Education , and he had been more or less in the outset of the exciting development which had been going on in Vienna , and had come back with all kinds of ideas . |
| 12 | Having a parasite is a very special , very intimate experience , as Bill Cater learned when he interviewed scientists and wildlife cameramen who had come back from exotic parts to discover that they 'd acquired various new things to share their lives with . |
| 13 | His dreams had come back after many nights which had seemed as empty as death , dreams of walking between high hedges , it was daylight on the other side of them but gloaming where he was and thick earth rose up to his knees , to his waist , stopping him , he tried to open his mouth but his jaw-bones jammed , he was choking … |
| 14 | I tell you , if a helicopter had come down at that customs post , there would have been no stopping me . |