Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] come [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looks alright on the surface , you 're not going through a hassle at the moment , and our memories are short , fortunately and once we come into a calm patch the hassles of yesterday are quickly forgotten . |
| 2 | Although they came from a different factory , their designer was the same ‘ Mac ’ Marshall , then freelancing , who had designed the other streamliners . |
| 3 | Every time I visited him he made me polish the dust off the bottle , so it came as a huge relief when we were finally able to open it . |
| 4 | Nervously , I moved forward , fumbling round the battlements until I came to a protruding wooden pole . |
| 5 | until I came across a small display above bottles of castor oil , laxa suppositories and a well known laxative was a sign reduced for clearance ! |
| 6 | In my case you get pregnant at every verse end , cos I came of a big family you see , mm . |
| 7 | All went well until she came to a small boy in the second row . |
| 8 | Upstairs , walk past the monks ' cells , until you come to a massive door . |
| 9 | If you came from a poor family the only way you could get secondary education was by gaining a scholarship . |
| 10 | It was a lesson on how to conduct yourself in huge menacing Dublin traffic if you came from a small place like Knockglen . |
| 11 | If you come from a long line of octogenarians , then clearly you will need to work out the sums on the basis of the next 20 years or longer . |
| 12 | You scum of the earth de , de , de , de , de , de , de , de you should only have that attitude if you come from a deprived childhood |
| 13 | If you come from a certain town or region , you will know what the different voices mean better than someone who comes from outside because you 've learned the code . |
| 14 | We returned to the car and drove on until we came to a small wooden bridge spanning a rivulet of water coming from a waterfall not far up the hillside behind . |
| 15 | We were examining the homework , sorting through the usual kind of difficulty but there was nothing to amiss , until we came to a light green garment . |
| 16 | At one point I was so inordinately shy of girls that I would blush and tremble if one came within a 50-yard radius of me . ’ |
| 17 | They should chat until they come to a realistic agreement about a style that will suit her hair and lifestyle . |
| 18 | They sailed round the shoreline of the harbour until they came to a small bay with a large waterfall over which cascaded the purest water . |
| 19 | And he went on his way with the youngest brother until they came to a long glade in the forest . |
| 20 | He led them along corridors and walkways until they came to a double set of metal-barred gates . |
| 21 | They stayed in the vent , moving along it until they came to a down tunnel . |
| 22 | I like to feel that if it came to a stand-up fight I would have a good chance of victory and escape . |
| 23 | If it came to a straight choice between a dolphin and Henry ( and in Henry 's view things had already got that serious ) he would go for Henry every time . |
| 24 | If it came to a straight cash contest , Blackburn can leave the rest standing . |
| 25 | I did not know whom I might meet there , and cramped as I as I did not fancy my chances at running away if it came to a straight chase on a hard surface . |
| 26 | But if it came to a pitched battle , the phalanx of heavily armed , well-mounted knights was a very formidable weapon . |
| 27 | No school-children so far , but I can hear the first faint scrapes and slushing of householders beginning to clean their pavements , and the sound is strange and hard to recognise in the almost silent air , seeming as if it came from a long distance , a country sound in the wrong place . |
| 28 | I tell him — since this critic has n't liked anything he 's seen for about twenty years — ; it does n't matter if he comes on a wet Wednesday with no R in the month and a tram strike . |
| 29 | ‘ Because I come from a booky family , in some ways I 've taken writing for granted — it 's like coming from a family of butchers and going into the meat trade . |
| 30 | We walked further along till we came to a quiet part . |