Example sentences of "[vb past] come [adv prt] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as much to disprove some of their absurd assumptions as to help you prove your own theories that I agreed to come in on this project . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | What he really needed to come out of this marriage smelling of roses was a lucky accident . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Another thing that did come up at that training day the other day was that we all need a , a , a , anybody that 's going to do any sort of appraising will need to know what the erm training programme is |
| 6 | The peasants in the Roslavl' region did come in for some attention during 1922 , though supervision was at best paternalistic , sporadic , and myopic . |
| 7 | Cos it 's an outdoor job , it 's a three shift system for those on the bottom , er early , morning and late , cos the eight hour day had come in at this time . |
| 8 | Yet someone had come in by that door , very softly , and was now motionless just within it , hesitating to advance into the choir and interrupt the second office of the day . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 … |
| 11 | I tell you , if a helicopter had come down at that customs post , there would have been no stopping me . |
| 12 | Earlier she had come down in this lift with Steve and now she was going up with the last person on earth she could have envisaged . |
| 13 | One SAE applauded an AE who had come out with this line about futures : " This stuff is granny bonds , it 's so simple . " |