Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Andrew Impey has really come on in leaps and bounds since he first broke into the first team and Ian Holloway does a great job for us . ’
2 Sue Leggate says : ‘ Consumer rights have come on in leaps and bounds since Which ? first appeared .
3 Son Pardo has come on in leaps and bounds since finishing fifth on his debut at Newmarket on 2,000 Guineas day .
4 With the introduction of carbon fibre , rod development has come on in leaps and bounds .
5 The young members section has come on in leaps and bounds in the last few years .
6 ‘ He 's technically a very good goalkeeper and he has come on in leaps and bounds in recent weeks , ’ he said .
7 He has come on in leaps and bounds this season .
8 And as if on cue , reports have just come in of tracks and sightings of live rhinos in two Sumatran reserves — Way Kambas and Berbak Game Reserve in Jambi — where they were believed extinct .
9 Going down with my dad who had been president of the lifeboat here for about fifty years , to meet the lifeboat as come in with survivors , I was just a wee boy at the time but I remember the Icelandic trawler , the Geyser and one of the first to be put ashore off the lifeboat that night , was a wee lassie , and she came across the pier and she came to me , because I was the only kid down there that night .
10 Information has come in from readers , amused , serious and knowledgeable .
11 Whiting 's or Whitting 's as it is sometimes spelt has a name that seems to have come down through generations , and one authority tempts to suggest that it may be of Saxon period .
12 It has come down to personalities and Julia is very disturbed by it all .
13 The poor duck must have crawled all that way , a hundred metres or more to that second patch of light ; our bright idea of putting the branches down after him to cover him up was pointless ; for all these years it would only have needed some more kids to have come along with torches or bits of burning paper to discover the body .
14 The microcomputer firms foresee networks of micros taking over , and the minicomputer firms see networks of minis , while IBM has come up with Systems Application Architecture ( SAA ) , designed to maintain the mainframe 's iron grip on corporate data processing 's throat .
15 This had been carried out inside the health department and had come up with findings that were easily predictable .
16 Of course , he had n't come up with answers , but he had indicated where , in what directions , further work might pay the necessary dividend .
17 What a guide IF YOU are thinking of a driving holiday in France this year it is well worth being able to parle a little motoring Francaise and the AA , along the National Tyre and Autocare have come up with ways of helping to make yourself understood .
18 The idea had arisen for Frank through his location and questions that had come up about muons ; Sakharov had been developing fusion in secret and picked up the notion because he would have been on the lookout for any papers about fusion , of whatever sort .
19 yeah , so why do they call him Harry all the time , Harry for a boy , that 's awful I mean a lot of the old names , we talked about the other day , a lot of the old names have come back for children , but I mean I do n't think Harry should be
20 ’ Some companies have been very conciliatory , ’ though they 've still come out with lines like ’ if only you 'd talked to us first … ’ .
21 Up and down the country , Opposition Front-Benchers have come out with protestations about what they will give this , that and the other interest group ; the document will make clear the order of priorities , and will begin to explain how the expenditure will be paid for .
22 Because we had people coming into the town that had come out of rooms one and two rooms in Har , in wherever they came from to Harlow and there were so many things that they required for their home that they could n't afford to have big families and pay their way .
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