Example sentences of "come [verb] in [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since 1986 's ‘ It 's Only A Long Way Across ’ , his songs have come wrapped in an electric blanket which has been soaked in the bog-holes of Ireland and then dry cleaned in the side alleys of Greenwich Village . |
| 2 | Those which happen to come to rest in a non-absorbing direction will absorb no more photons , and will thereafter stay put . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Melanie had been told they had come to live in a great city but found herself again in a village , a grey one . |
| 5 | She had gone through rather a bad patch since she had come to live in the banqueting hall . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Pluvial and arid periods had always alternated but at some point the latter must have come to dominate in a prolonged drought . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Maxie Carlo came to work in a yellow plaid suit . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Halfway through her voice had become an echo disorientating Maxim until his memory came to rest in a stone-walled lecture room with the Scottish wind rattling the windows . |
| 14 | With some telepathy at work , his questing glance came to rest in the exact square of window in which her face appeared . |
| 15 | it came to rest in the soft ground 100 yards on . |
| 16 | A fire subsequently spread from the bottom of the cockpit and engulfed the pilot as the aircraft came to rest in an upright attitude . |
| 17 | However , he gradually came to believe in an impersonal God , and then in the personal God of the Christian faith . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ( He goes on to describe how swans came to settle in the public lakes of the city . ) |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This came to dominate in the last years of the century . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Hugh drove neatly into the straw-covered shelter as though he were coming to rest in a multi-storey car park ; then he switched off the engine and opened his door . |
| 25 | It was over in a second , Barnett cannoned off the flattened front of the vehicle then tumbled down the road coming to rest in an inert heap . |
| 26 | And since , in the words of Mr Whittaker , ‘ our friend from Robben Island was released ’ , Africa keeps coming to call in no uncertain fashion . |
| 27 | All we ask of anyone coming to live in a civilized city is that they accept the code of behaviour of civilized , decent people ’ etcetera , etcetera … |
| 28 | This at a time when the book clubs are coming to trade in the high street . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 |