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

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1 Over a period of ten days I spent a lot of energy and seemed to come through with colours flying .
2 This had been carried out inside the health department and had come up with findings that were easily predictable .
3 one of Mrs Tibbs 's boarders , ‘ an Irishman recently imported ’ who was ‘ in a perfectly wild state ; and had come over to England to be an apothecary , a clerk in a government office , an actor , a reporter , or anything else that turned up — he was not particular ’ .
4 Meanwhile their investigation had received help from Roxie Farmer 's reluctant admission that her brother had been staying with her , and that he had gone off one day , borrowing her former husband 's bike , and had come back with blood on him .
5 Steelworkers in the public sector had for some time been in dispute with their employers , the British Steel Corporation , and had come out on strike .
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