Example sentences of "come [adj] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fading light gave way in a matter of seconds to a moist , velvet blackness , as if a curtain had been drawn swiftly across the sky , and the shadows beyond the glow of the hurricane lamps immediately began to come alive with the shrill vibrations of the jungle night . |
| 2 | A strong challenge anticipated from the fiercely nationalist and right-wing Serbian Renaissance Movement ( SP0 ) failed to materialize : SPO leader Vuk Draskovic took only 20 per cent of the vote to come second in the presidential election , while his party took only 19 seats in the Assembly ( after winning 13 seats in the first round it fought the second round in coalition with other opposition parties ) . |
| 3 | He defeated the emigré businessman Stanislaw Tyminski , who had surprisingly come second in the first round of the elections held on Nov. 25 [ see pp. 37840-41 ] , by 10,622,696 votes ( 74.3 per cent ) to 3,693,098 ( 25.7 per cent ) . |
| 4 | Emil Constantinescu , who had come second in the presidential elections in September [ see p. 39104 ] , was elected president of the main opposition alliance , the Democratic Convention ( DCR ) , on Nov. 27 . |
| 5 | He was in danger of becoming part of the establishment and there was a new young punk hungry for his chance : twenty-one-year-old Brock Little had come fourth in the 1986 Eddie Aikau when Foo was second . |
| 6 | All have come short of the divine standard for human life ; none can lay claim to earning the verdict of acquittal by keeping the law in its entirety : ‘ for there is no distinction , since all have sinned and come short of the glory of God ’ ( Rom. 3:23 ) . |
| 7 | The Government has failed to add any convincing arguments to its feeble justifications for the changes , and dares not come clean about the real reasons . |
| 8 | His eyes kept looking away over one of my shoulders or the other , never meeting my gaze , and I got the impression that like his wife he was constantly waiting for something important to happen , expecting someone to arrive at any moment , as though they both could n't believe what had happened and it was all a dream or a ghastly joke and they were just waiting for Clare to come gangling through the front door , kicking off muddy green wellies and loudly demanding tea . |
| 9 | UNHAPPY rail passengers ' dreams are about to come true with the right sort of leaves on the line . |
| 10 | He was sworn into office on Jan. 14 , taking over from Vinicio Cerezo ( also a democratically elected civilian , of the Christian Democratic Party — PDCG — whose candidate had come third in the first round ) , together with his Vice-President and fellow evangelical , Gustavo Adolfo Espina Salguero . |
| 11 | If a woman 's place is in the home doing the cooking ( Letters NI 191 ) — how come most of the top chefs in restaurants are men ? |
| 12 | Madame Giry came nearer to the two men . |
| 13 | Decision : the need to deter other people from carrying out similar acts outweighed the effect of the sentence on the appellant 's future prospects : the appellant 's personal position came second to the public interest in deterring others minded to act as he did . |
| 14 | He now competes regularly against adults too , and came second in the recent Cleveland championships in which most of the players were adult . |
| 15 | Jay progressed though local congresses , and experienced his first big success at the Whitley Bay tournament where he came second in the under-nine events at the age of seven . |
| 16 | He told students : ‘ In the auditions I ask them who came second in the last war and they say ‘ Ask the other fella ’ . |
| 17 | In December 1918 he came second in the same constituency in the Coupon election . |
| 18 | The heroes of the hour were left-hander David Byas and Craig White , who both came good at the same time to record their career-best Sunday scores . |
| 19 | Gordonians were second bottom of Division Three before Saturday but they came good in the final game , defeating Morgan Academy 29-0 to leap-frog the Dundee club . |
| 20 | The race was won by an Aston Martin DB4 and the Guisborough duo came sixth in the overall concours and fourth in their class of 1,000–1,300cc grand touring sports cars . |
| 21 | Mr John Wilkinson ( C. Ruislip Northwood ) , who came sixth in the private members ' bills ballot , yesterday announced a measure to make it obligatory to apply for planning permission before a dwelling house is demolished . |
| 22 | I think I came unstuck at the last fence |
| 23 | Alvaro Arzú was the former mayor of Guatemala City and co-founder with Alvaro Heredia ( the acting mayor ) of the right-wing National Advancement Party ( PAN ) , as whose candidate he came fourth in the first round of the election . |
| 24 | The CDU/CDM coalition came fourth in the Federal Assembly , the CDU coming third in the Czech National Council while the CDM emerged as the second strongest group in the Slovak National Council . |
| 25 | As the guns were still being fired , a Syrian tank came lunging up the shattered street where we had just been walking and entered the tiny square . |
| 26 | Last summer , bothered by a groin injury , his tally was still 42 and he came 12th in the national bowling averages . |
| 27 | The call came first to the anti-terrorist squad , so it took an hour before Milton heard the news on the grapevine . |
| 28 | Somerville 's Cross-Country and Tennis Teams came first in the annual Cuppers competition while the Hockey Team reached the final . |
| 29 | A Reuter photographer , Corinne Dufka , who came face-to-face with the marauding crowds , heard a man armed with a US-made M-16 rifle yelling : ‘ All white people deserve to die . ’ |
| 30 | A Reuter photographer , Corinne Dufka , who came face-to-face with the marauding rioters , heard a man armed with a US-made M-16 rifle yelling : ‘ All white people deserve to die . ’ |