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

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1 Hereford were bottom of the table when they kicked off on saturday … the lift they needed came after just seven minutes when top scorer Owen Pickard shot them into the lead …
2 He had come across very few others not of the Kind , with that strength of vision .
3 Robert Julius Matson had guessed right : the first train had come through just nine years after the town was founded in 1858 , pulling behind it the fertiliser works , the com mill , the seed-com warehouse , and with them the quiet prosperity that spawned the first Masonic lodge in 1871 , a voluntary fire brigade in ‘ 75 , the telephone in ‘ 84 and the first sewer in 1920 .
4 There was a minor , uninfluential theme in his posthumous reputation that he had come by abnormally horny knees from long hours in prayer .
5 And although they tended to come from less advantaged backgrounds , only children performed as well as , or even slightly better than , fellow pupils from two-child families .
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