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 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 3 | I needed to come up with a solution which avoided this overly defined focal point and used it at the same time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It started coming back after a weekend seeing Darren . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Ford knew they had to come up with a winner in the Mondeo and I think they have done just that . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | Lucy was already regretting her impulsive words , but , knowing she had to come up with an answer , she said in a matter-of-fact tone , ‘ Silas has already assured me that women will no longer play a part in his life . |
| 14 | I had to come back to a degree agreeing with them . |
| 15 | Peter Foley , who had come on as a substitute struck the upright with a powerful drive , for the ball to rebound clear . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But this time the executive had come up with a compromise of sterling dimness . |
| 18 | Some time before , Malcolm had come up with a list of half a dozen names . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Just before airtime , a story had come in on a drug bust : space was hastily made for this . |
| 25 | He had come in for a book of stamps , and when he had got it he joined Breeze , who was waiting on the Green . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | He had appointed the Tower Commission , he said , specifically to find out whether money had been generated from the arms sales beyond the ‘ twelve million two ’ , and , if so , who had done it ; but no one had come back with an answer . |