Example sentences of "come [adv] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Injuries have hit the club , and coach Billy Lomax had to come on as a substitute midway through the second half . |
| 2 | The yellow nylon shirt with the frothy frill amounts to an offence against taste bordering on the criminal , yet it somehow works to offset his complexion ( pale blue ) and the ensemble enables him to come on like a chat-show host from Hell — vast smiles and arms flung out in gestures of mock formality . |
| 3 | Worst Career Move of the month : ex-world 's greatest sleazeball James Woods trying to come on like a middle-aged woman 's dreamboat opposite Dolly Parton in Straight Talk , which also has the biggest supporting cast of the month : Griffin Dunne , John Sayles , Spalding Gray . |
| 4 | The other lad who made a commitment came as a non-believer but was willing to come along with an open mind and on studying the gospels came to believe Jesus was indeed who he said he was and shortly after made his commitment . |
| 5 | But I cooled him out and he agreed to come along to a new rehearsal place that we 'd found , The Rose And Crown in Wandsworth . |
| 6 | We turned our ponies and galloped back to the Legation , where we learnt that news had just come in of a great victory for the Shoan army . |
| 7 | While it has come in for a certain amount of criticism , it has also attracted much praise , especially from industry . |
| 8 | Understandably , this presumption has come in for a great deal of criticism . |
| 9 | It is hard to disappoint someone who may have come in as a last port of call when all other channels to sort out their problems seem closed . |
| 10 | But I quite see that you need someone to come in on a practical issue like what to do about his tenants . |
| 11 | And really I 'm going to start off and then Liz is going to come in on a particular aspect of this . |
| 12 | In terms of progressing or taking part in the discussion , can I suggest that if you want to come in on a particular item , you put your name board up like that , so that we can readily observe it er and equally , our friend who is looking after the microphones can make sure that the vol the volume of your microphone is turned up at the appropriate time . |
| 13 | and erm I used to do erm , keep a check on the flying times of the planes cos every forty hours they had to come in for a different check . |
| 14 | He never wrote entirely admiring reviews : ‘ It 's the essence of a book never to be perfect , ’ he said , ‘ so its writer must expect to come in for a little criticism . ’ |
| 15 | We used to come in for a fair amount of ribbing and good-natured chaff , and remarks like , Was it a red sky this morning ? |
| 16 | She said politely , ‘ Would you like to come in for a last drink ? ’ |
| 17 | Ed Morrison allowed John Jeffrey to come in from an offside position and ‘ collect ’ a passing movement between two Japanese players while Hayashi was tackled without the ball when a try seemed certain for Japan . |
| 18 | An agreement to come together as an economic unit was reached by the exiled governments in 1944 , though the scheme did not envisage any political arrangements . |
| 19 | However in doing so , it is important that we take time , because time allows people to come together in a sensible way , not to be forced together . |
| 20 | He was pleased to see how well they had all mixed , even though they had admittedly come together with a common purpose . |
| 21 | For the first time staff concerned with mapping and interpreting crustal structure in the third dimension have come together in a single division , Thematic Maps and Onshore Surveys ( TMOS ) . |
| 22 | Friends of the Earth criticized the lack of concrete suggestions , claiming that " the government has come along with a blank sheet of paper and asked the public to fill it in " . |
| 23 | " Ask Dr. Lorrimer to come down for a few minutes , will you please ? " |
| 24 | I ask him to come down for a few days and I also invite Lady De Marr . |
| 25 | He needed to come down from a greater height than most . |
| 26 | The reader might have come away with a Victorian idea of the inexorability of progress , each generation better , finer and braver than its parents . |
| 27 | Half a crown And you used to come away with a big piece of flat brisket and if he 's got any sausage left , or bits a of pork pies , he used to shove a bit of that in . |
| 28 | Sixty miles they used to come over for a good evening at those and maybe two principles |
| 29 | The improvements have come not in a dramatic way but week by week over a number of months . |
| 30 | She said : ‘ Try and persuade him to come home for a special tea . |