Example sentences of "come [adv] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Injuries have hit the club , and coach Billy Lomax had to come on as a substitute midway through the second half . |
| 2 | The yellow nylon shirt with the frothy frill amounts to an offence against taste bordering on the criminal , yet it somehow works to offset his complexion ( pale blue ) and the ensemble enables him to come on like a chat-show host from Hell — vast smiles and arms flung out in gestures of mock formality . |
| 3 | Worst Career Move of the month : ex-world 's greatest sleazeball James Woods trying to come on like a middle-aged woman 's dreamboat opposite Dolly Parton in Straight Talk , which also has the biggest supporting cast of the month : Griffin Dunne , John Sayles , Spalding Gray . |
| 4 | But I cooled him out and he agreed to come along to a new rehearsal place that we 'd found , The Rose And Crown in Wandsworth . |
| 5 | We turned our ponies and galloped back to the Legation , where we learnt that news had just come in of a great victory for the Shoan army . |
| 6 | While it has come in for a certain amount of criticism , it has also attracted much praise , especially from industry . |
| 7 | Understandably , this presumption has come in for a great deal of criticism . |
| 8 | But I quite see that you need someone to come in on a practical issue like what to do about his tenants . |
| 9 | And really I 'm going to start off and then Liz is going to come in on a particular aspect of this . |
| 10 | In terms of progressing or taking part in the discussion , can I suggest that if you want to come in on a particular item , you put your name board up like that , so that we can readily observe it er and equally , our friend who is looking after the microphones can make sure that the vol the volume of your microphone is turned up at the appropriate time . |
| 11 | and erm I used to do erm , keep a check on the flying times of the planes cos every forty hours they had to come in for a different check . |
| 12 | He never wrote entirely admiring reviews : ‘ It 's the essence of a book never to be perfect , ’ he said , ‘ so its writer must expect to come in for a little criticism . ’ |
| 13 | We used to come in for a fair amount of ribbing and good-natured chaff , and remarks like , Was it a red sky this morning ? |
| 14 | However in doing so , it is important that we take time , because time allows people to come together in a sensible way , not to be forced together . |
| 15 | He was pleased to see how well they had all mixed , even though they had admittedly come together with a common purpose . |
| 16 | For the first time staff concerned with mapping and interpreting crustal structure in the third dimension have come together in a single division , Thematic Maps and Onshore Surveys ( TMOS ) . |
| 17 | Friends of the Earth criticized the lack of concrete suggestions , claiming that " the government has come along with a blank sheet of paper and asked the public to fill it in " . |
| 18 | The reader might have come away with a Victorian idea of the inexorability of progress , each generation better , finer and braver than its parents . |
| 19 | Half a crown And you used to come away with a big piece of flat brisket and if he 's got any sausage left , or bits a of pork pies , he used to shove a bit of that in . |
| 20 | Sixty miles they used to come over for a good evening at those and maybe two principles |
| 21 | The improvements have come not in a dramatic way but week by week over a number of months . |
| 22 | She said : ‘ Try and persuade him to come home for a special tea . |
| 23 | However , they have come home to a safe place where they know they are loved and that it is safe to have their tantrums . |
| 24 | Then she remembered why Nahum had come home in a terrible temper and called her unrepeatable names . |
| 25 | Now , as she crossed into Farringdon Street and saw familiar landmarks , she stopped and put down her bag , gazing about her with the pleasure of someone who has come home after a long absence . |
| 26 | Erm sometimes if he 's been out very very late and I 'm still up and he 's come home after a heavy night drinking . |
| 27 | It was after her mother had come home from a solitary trip to Rome . |
| 28 | The Beatles/Stones/Kinks/Peters And Lee have come up with a real smasher this time |
| 29 | However , by handling the machine with some software , Comet Data could have come up with a real bargain . |
| 30 | So Clinton has come up with a mixed bag of tricks : some of his proposals will be interpreted as inflationary ( the new mandates on business , for example — including a requirement that all employers spend a minimum of 1.5% of payroll on continuing education and training ) . |