Example sentences of "come [adv] [prep] [num] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the old old binder used to come in with two two year old stalwarts , horses , and he used to go round this field and it used to take him days . |
| 2 | Burford 's Trevor Smith … held on and held out in the worst of conditions to come home in twenty eighth spot … |
| 3 | The Department of Transport has come up with two alternative by-pass routes as the best way of relieving the heavy traffic using the A forty Green Road Roundabout junction at Headington . |
| 4 | But before tape came along , the record industry came up with one more development — full frequency-range recording . |
| 5 | After just an hour and a quarter the band said goodnight , and after a good deal of clapping and foot stamping Harry came back to one last song on his own . |
| 6 | Narrow though the form was in which the boy was lying he came out in one easy movement as though accustomed to it . |
| 7 | The fact of the matter , at the same time , erm , as you yourself have said , Chairman , we are in a situation where we have four communication rooms coming down to two next year hopefully , I personally think it should come down to one , but lets recognise that they 're costing the police authority one point six million pounds , they 're tying up forty-one uniformed police officers , and something like fifty er , civilian officers on those exercises . |
| 8 | ‘ Coming up on one full revolution , Ace . |
| 9 | It 's , I mean they 're , okay you 're applying from three different standpoints but it 's coming out of one well budgetholder 's erm kitty . |
| 10 | Still , we do not come close to one local village which was left a field , the rents from which for centuries provided the poor with half-a-dozen sacks of coal ; but then the village sold its field to a property developer . |
| 11 | Try processing all the relevant information contained in the problem to help you come up with one plausible explanation . |
| 12 | Then he 'd come up with one mad scheme after another , like buying a sack of pigeon food and selling it to people in Trafalgar Square . |
| 13 | Now if I could just come back to one other thing , cos Tim Pat was raising it . |
| 14 | how did I get how did I come out with three last time ? |
| 15 | Some people in ICI still come up by one functional channel and reach the top , but most emerging people get the management development treatment rather like I did . |
| 16 | The message was clear — ‘ Come back at nine this evening ’ — though they spoke no English , we no Chinese and no help was to be had from the Thai phrasebook . |
| 17 | Laughable in an altogether more tragic sense are No Man , who now have the dubious claim to fame of featuring three ex-members of Japan ( Steve Jansen , Richard Barbieri and Mick Kam ) in their backing band , though to the uninitiated they come across as three craggy muso casualties looking more than ready for the knacker 's yard . |
| 18 | All of this comes down to one simple phrase : working more efficiently so we can do more and do it better . |
| 19 | To the left is the great waterfall — the cirque has numerous supporting ones — which comes down in one huge leap of 1,400 feet when the snows are melting or in two rather more modest leaps once they are finished . |