Example sentences of "come [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In nightclubs and pop promo videos , it 's as if the banshees have come down screaming from the catwalk , staggering in their stilettos under the weight of their Max Factor cosmetics and costume jewellery . |
| 2 | Yes , Elizabeth Howell of Exploring Parenthood , certainly that is the case , both with parents and with people like teachers or child care workers , who are in locus parentis for many hours of the day , and our sense is very much that if the adults around children can feel supported and confident that they can acknowledge their own fears and anxieties that they will then be better be able to transmit that measured response to the children in their care and it was very interesting last week , I heard from an educational psychologist in the north of England who said that a group of teachers had asked from several schools to come together to think about the resources that they needed to set in place in order to deal with the children 's behaviour , and after the meeting , at which they were able to express their anxieties , they then returned to their various areas and when the psychologist contacted them a couple of days later they said we felt sufficiently supported by knowing that others are struggling with the same issues and that we could acknowledge our concerns about it , that we now feel able to get on with the job of helping the children , and I think that was a very good example of adults finding a way to acknowledge their own anxieties and thereby to increase their effectiveness in dealing with the children that in whose care they have . |
| 3 | That threat , she said , was the reason why interested parties had come together to work for an improvement . |
| 4 | They 've come along to talk about the Services for Industry programme , and what the University can offer local firms . |
| 5 | The other side of the coin was the pressure which could be exerted upon such foreign soldiers if they attempted to come home to vote in an election in opposition to a man of influence . |
| 6 | I mean unfortunately the authority in days gone by has benefited from the scheme in the sense that the extra , extra money in service in truth , the revenue was there , erm , the chickens have come home to roost in the sense that it 's , the tables have turned the other way , and I mean , gone are the days where , when we 're least worried out that impact that , that , that much more of our er , of our budget . |
| 7 | It looks , it 's come back looking like a brand new mower ! |
| 8 | Must 've come back looking like a ghost |
| 9 | Waking in our bed one morning , we 'll hear a chorus of trills and cheeps ; fun has come back to cluster in the branches of the tree outside our window . |
| 10 | In fact , liberal or not , she has come back to work for the ANC , though her exact capacity is not made clear . |
| 11 | Stephen had them in the handsome , leather-bound edition of the International Collectors ' Library and also in the paperbacks that had come out to go with the television series . |
| 12 | But Billingsley had clearly known about Hirondelle 's visit to Murder Cay , and I realised that this senior police officer had not come here to enquire into a crime , but to cover it up . |
| 13 | From early in its history , therefore , AEA has been active in technology transfer and has come increasingly to operate as a service organisation to the nuclear industry , working through customer-contractor arrangements covered by properly drawn up contracts . |
| 14 | Bingo No volunteer has come forward to assist with the bingo sessions so a new rota has been drawn up . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , among the middle class , there were few institutions so revered as the schools , and their influence in clubs was held to be of great consequence as reformers regularly called for public-school men to come forward to work in the clubs . |
| 16 | This trade unionism came eventually to believe in the need for parliamentary representation to safeguard its interests , and from the start determined the course of political intervention . |
| 17 | Intermittently , after 1948 , the Anglo-Scots came together to play as a team , usually against a home district . |
| 18 | A door at the end of the hall opened , and Arkhina came in attended by a serving woman . |
| 19 | The last man in , John Bendall had already injured himself when we were fielding and he also came in to bat with a runner . |
| 20 | This morning Betty — my cleaner — came in bursting with the news that there was a brass plate outside . |
| 21 | His parachute was caught by turbulence as he came in to land on a school playing field . |
| 22 | The small jet came in to land with a rush at Marco Polo Airport and , brakes squealing a protest , taxied clear of the runway . |
| 23 | They came in to land in a snowscape , the lights along the thin ribbon of recently cleared runway coming into view and stretching out in front of them as the Seneca descended on its final approach . |
| 24 | A few days after that Norman Prince , the founder of the Lafayette , flying long and late in an attempt to avenge Rockwell , hit a high-tension cable as he came in to land in the dark . |
| 25 | Just before she turned the sign on the door round to read ‘ Closed ’ , a woman came in to look at the toys . |
| 26 | Gradually other women finished the insides of their houses and came outside to work in the sunlight . |
| 27 | I hardly approached the book unwilling to hear ill spoken of science ; but I came away struck by the rapidity with which most cases of scientific fraud have been exposed and penalised . |
| 28 | Rob came over to perch on the corner of her desk . |
| 29 | The eerie lights would hang in the air for quite some time then the mortars came over to burst at the edge of the wood . |
| 30 | It seemed to him that Vincent came home spoiling for a fight . |