Example sentences of "come [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few had come that way since the Deosil Gate had been one of the first to collapse in a shower of white-hot embers . |
| 2 | In her hand she held the letter from England that had come that morning and Wilson knew what it contained : news of Miss Henrietta , of Mrs Surtees Cook , who was mortally ill with cancer of the womb . |
| 3 | When , when they 've been down , and they 've been back to school , they 've sent me a collections of drawings and nice little notes about it , and we 've come firm friends because first they look at me , on me as the pond woman , oh , they saw me on television getting my award , and erm they thought that was rather wonderful , and so we , we , we talk and now the , the first ones have quite grown up . |
| 4 | By the end of the nineteen fifties life in Orkney had come full circle and like everyone else we had acquired a taste for the material things in life . |
| 5 | Wordsworth felt that the wheel had indeed come full circle or rather , to use his own expression , that France was like a ‘ dog/Returning to his vomit ’ ( Prelude 1805 , x , 935 ) . |
| 6 | In place of the Fabian imperatives of post-war planning and the corporate outlook of the 1944 White Paper , there had come sectional interest and a declining confidence in the public sector . |
| 7 | With it has come greater variety and choice , as well as convenience and speed cooking . |