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

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1 Phil : When the paediatrician come in next morning , I mean he only was in there two seconds , he looked her up and said ‘ Typical mongol ’ , either ‘ Typical mongol features ’ or ‘ Typical mongol face ’ , it was one of the two he said , and I could have killed him …
2 So she started to cry and all then and said she said she was sorry , and right enough she stuck to the time that we allow her to , she 's come in last night dead on the button .
3 Of a sample of immigrants in Stratford on Avon in 1765 examined by Dr Martin , a third had come only 4 miles or less from neighbouring villages , while only a fifth had come from more than 20 miles .
4 We had come only forty-two miles in three days — fourteen miles a day .
5 His Auntie ( Mothers sister ) lived most of her life in Harwell village , having come down this way to do domestic service .
6 Should n't 've come down this way .
7 And if S&M is so politically challenging , how come so many judges and high-ranking civil servants enjoy it ?
8 Not for the fact that , Oh God , abortions are bad , how come so many people have had them ?
9 The regiment had come ashore that morning and were going into action that evening , attacking the village just along the road , about two hundred yards from the edge of our village and close to No. 6 Commando positions .
10 Even by Labour standards the pantomime season has come early this year .
11 After all , the caller could n't rely on his not noticing that Edwin had n't come home last night until he did n't get his early tea brought to him .
12 Emmie looked into her father 's room but the bed was still made : he had not come home last night .
13 And he has come home this morning worn out with experience , all grief and all wonder , because she gave him the psaltery on which he played to her , and sent him a message straight out of the jongleurs ’ romances .
14 Much of this work has indeed come under increasing criticism .
15 As we shall see later , the economic performance of the Magnox reactors has also come under increasing scrutiny .
16 While the NHS has become increasingly concerned with ensuring that there is a hierarchy of individuals with responsibility for achieving certain objectives , and an increasing commitment by individual doctors , nurses and therapists to agreed aims , local authority staff have also come under increasing pressure from elected council members and , behind them , the voting electorate , to demonstrate that their service departments have effective management structures and are truly accountable .
17 Governments have consequently come under increasing pressure to increase their domestic resources , and this usually involves raising public revenue .
18 ( The Croatian port of — Dubrovnik had meanwhile come under renewed shelling from Serbian forces since May 29 . )
19 The governor of the Bank of England , Robin Leigh Pemberton , had also come under intense criticism for not acting more quickly when he became aware of fraud within BCCI .
20 It has also come under severe attack from the orthodox medical establishment .
21 Baker had previously come under heavy attack in parliament over the escape from Brixton Prison in July of two suspected members of the Irish Republican Army [ see p. 38356 ] , over the introduction of legislation related to dangerous dogs , and over the outbreak of inner-city rioting in August-September [ see p. 38445 ] .
22 As the Milnes company had recently come under German ownership , this batch of cars , together with the similar Bath , South Lancs.
23 With a steady growth in demand have come more outstanding courses , and with that , more incredible offers .
24 After that come more advanced techniques which students need to perform for the next grading .
25 Erm , Simon , there 's one that 's come up right field in the fact that we mention , I think you might have got it 'cos you 're responsible for the Q P five , which talks about interim reports , services .
26 In the first case , elitism does not provide an explanation , being merely a loose term to describe a social category about which other features rather than the elite characteristic provide what explanation there is ; in the second case , the power elite looks remarkably like a social class , and elite explanation has come back full circle to its point of departure .
27 And I think I will have come out that way on the thing .
28 He has actually come out this season and said that there s no place in the side for Strachan and Rocastle .
29 in the you think please god do n't let Joe Bloggs come out this morning , good morning Joe , first one out .
30 ‘ Danker , ’ said the man in battle-dress , and to me : ‘ Hullo , old boy ’ as if it was inevitable that I should have come there some time or other , and went on throwing the ball about .
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