Example sentences of "come [adv] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ANOTHER victim of evil Dr Tom Courtney has come forward to tell of the horrific ordeal he put her through . |
| 2 | Blaise Cendrars , the writer , saw Modigliani let fall a twenty-franc note one evening when a well-known pauper came in to sit at the next table . |
| 3 | All of them failed , from the disastrous Purko Sheep Ranch , where the sheep died because the ranch was at too high an altitude , to the four big grazing schemes which went under in the drought of the early 1960s , when people from outside the schemes , under pressure of need , came in to graze on the permanent waters and massive erosion occurred . |
| 4 | When Helen came in to help with the spaying operation she looked rather nervous . |
| 5 | Er many members of the public took advantage of the offer of the more detailed appraisal er and indeed came in to look at the detailed consultants reports . |
| 6 | After the party the house guests came downstairs to eat under the arcaded edge of a courtyard . |
| 7 | When the keeper came up to check on the Spectacled Bears , she could n't understand that Omero and Minky were trying to tell her that Sam was ill , she just saw that he was curled up in a ball and would n't move . |
| 8 | Earlier this season , Haslemere might have collapsed at this stage , but they came back to equalise with the best goal of the game . |
| 9 | It is a curious miscellany , where photographs of his early ballets are mixed in with family snap-shots , pictures of his friends , souvenirs of journeys , Christmas and other greetings , a book of clothing coupons from the days of rationing , costume drawings and various illustrations cut from magazines , including a feature on Roland Petit 's ballet Carmen and examples of the ‘ new look ’ in women 's clothes when long skirts came back to fashion for the first time since the war ; he proposed a ballet about that , but it was rejected . |
| 10 | I just hoped that Tom would feel better about the situation when he came back to work in the New Year . |
| 11 | Am I glad we came out to work for the entire season , Rosie ! |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm going to do what I came here to do in the first place . |
| 13 | I came here to learn about the Antarctic — I 'm not interested in Amundsen , or in races ! ’ |
| 14 | Two crucial stages in this were the formation of an alliance with the Emperor Alexius I Comnenus of Byzantium against the Norman empire threatening to spread into Venice 's Adriatic and Byzantine Greece in the 1080s ; and the role Venice came increasingly to play in the crusading adventures of the twelfth century . |
| 15 | Six UK cable television operators , Comcast Ltd , General Cable Ltd , Diamond Cable Ltd and three of the Baby Bells , Nynex Corp , Pacific Telesis Group Inc and Southwestern Bell Corp are coming together to apply for the Personal Communications Network frequencies freed up by the merger of the Unitel consortium with Mercury Personal Communications Ltd : the companies want licences to offer the cellular service within their franchise areas , CommunicationsWeek International says . |
| 16 | He 's the chief executive of the one of the biggest advertising agencies in the country , he 's coming in to talk about the thirty something phenomena here in the nineties now . |
| 17 | It was like coming in to land on the wrinkled hide of some sleeping behemoth . |
| 18 | There were the people coming in to shuffle through the little magazines , Zen Buddhism , Burroughs , Ginsberg , Nuttall , New Departures , Circuit , four letter words , and Indian music . |
| 19 | It argues , in no uncertain terms , that levels of exploitation undreamed of outside the sweatshops of the Third World are coming home to roost in the depressed urban ghettos of the West . |
| 20 | Coming again to pick at the crucial knot |
| 21 | He did , however , come back to ride in the later races . |
| 22 | — When Manjiku comes , she shuts her eyes and lets herself fall down his throat past the barbed teeth and come down to land in the foul bilgewater in his gut . |
| 23 | A merger is defined to be a business combination in which , rather than one party acquiring control of another , the parties come together to share in the future risks and benefits of the combined entity . |
| 24 | Let us pass the word along and come together to fight in the only way left open to us — the way the church has always been meant to fight — behind enemy lines . |
| 25 | After five sentences , stop and pause , take a deep breath , look out of the window , then come back to work on the next five sentences . |