Example sentences of "come [verb] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She said that had been his double and he 'd got away scot-free to come to live in the last country in the world where people would think of looking for him . |
2 | She had gone through rather a bad patch since she had come to live in the banqueting hall . |
3 | At every stage , the media must insist upon its right to investigate and to print public interest stories ; if it is right in its identification of the public interest , it is unlikely to come to harm in the long run . |
4 | Although all this was entertainingly unpleasant , in Bira the most genuine threat to our lives came disguised in the quietest way , when we broke the cardinal rule of touching an unidentified creature . |
5 | Bradman and the umpire disagreed and Cec came to play in the Central Lancashire League where he became a legend for his fiery bowling , lusty hitting and astonishing turns of phrase . |
6 | The apparent ineffectiveness of naval forces , particularly when contrasted with the vital role which they came to play in the sixteenth century , may have turned students against the subject . |
7 | As for Edmund , the Danes themselves may have supported his cult , as the Danish rulers of East Anglia came to do in the ninth century , and if so he would eventually have become a means of reconciliation between the two peoples . |
8 | With some telepathy at work , his questing glance came to rest in the exact square of window in which her face appeared . |
9 | it came to rest in the soft ground 100 yards on . |
10 | So Spurs getting the lead they so dearly wanted after all their upsets of recent weeks , but back came United in the eighteenth minute , Les Phillips sent Nogan free over the halfway line and Eric Torsville had to race from his line to hack the ball into the stand . |
11 | He held office for twenty-seven years and became one of the most renowned figures who have ever served the BDDA , because of his devotion to the cause of deafness and the dominating position he came to hold in the deaf world . |
12 | ( He goes on to describe how swans came to settle in the public lakes of the city . ) |
13 | In 1955 a solitary bottlenose dolphin came to live in the remote Hokianga Harbour in Northland , New Zealand , and was soon to cause a sensation . |
14 | This came to dominate in the last years of the century . |
15 | Returning briefly to Dublin , she next went to Rome and Athens to do more studying before coming to work in the British Museum , and going to live in Knutsford , Cheshire , where she did her greatest work , the bust of Archbishop Alexander , Primate of All Ireland , which stands today in Armagh Cathedral . |
16 | This at a time when the book clubs are coming to trade in the high street . |
17 | It is only when one supposes that , as well as such ideas , there is either ‘ extension in abstract ’ or extended , external , material things which might have parts we can not perceive , that one might come to believe in the infinite divisibility of finite extension . |
18 | but erm , sorry the reason I 'm raising my eyebrows is that the people who would come to live in the new settlement if it was to happen , are people who would otherwise have to live somewhere else in in the county |
19 | No doubt a great deal eventually comes to rest in the deep ocean basins , hut these are not environments much represented in the stratigraphical record of the continents , which have been our main preoccupation . |