Example sentences of "come [adv] in a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | The improvements have come not in a dramatic way but week by week over a number of months . |
| 4 | Then she remembered why Nahum had come home in a terrible temper and called her unrepeatable names . |
| 5 | ( 3 ) Your house has come up in a random sample of houses in this area and , if you are a full-time housewife , we would like you to tell us about your working day since ( 4 ) we believe that a survey of this subject would be of great value in helping all housewives . |
| 6 | With the breakdown of the administration , crime syndicates have come up in a big way . |
| 7 | Perhaps the topic that worries you may be scheduled to come up in a later training session — but it happens today . |
| 8 | You have come back in a funny mood . |
| 9 | She did n't want her voice to come out in a dry croak . |
| 10 | Even now , however , he is prepared to accept that he may not be able to come back in a new guise after three years . |
| 11 | They went away thanking her for her help , and promised to come back in a few weeks ' time when Bruno 's booster injection was due . |
| 12 | Well , we had a talk and she invited me to come back in a few days ' time . |
| 13 | The fact that the burns had come about in an unforeseeable way did not render the damage too remote . |
| 14 | The tall , straight young back that sauntered away down-river , to come about in a wide circuit via the fence of the curator 's garden , and the box hedge that continued its line , maintained too secure an assurance , and too secret a satisfaction of its own , in spite of the dexterity with which it had removed itself from censure . |
| 15 | Washington , he said , stood by its commitment to overcome the division of Europe , Germany and Berlin , but this had to come about in a gradual process which satisfied German aspirations and met the ‘ legitimate interests ’ of all concerned . |
| 16 | That would be a mistake : this is one of the most satisfying and interesting CDs I have come across in a long while . |
| 17 | England defenders Rob Jones and Mark Wright came on in a wholesale reshuffle of resources , but any danger that United would feed off the disruption was dismissed by McManaman 's leggy skills . |
| 18 | Sandra Peden , her that works in the Co-operative she 's a Gold Medallist in Elocution you know , well wait till I tell you she came on in a long Laura Ashley nightdress carrying a Wee Willie Winkie candlestick with wee pink bedsocks and a matching pompom hat and did Holy Willie 's Prayer . |
| 19 | Suddenly a Hurricane came down in a screaming dive and splashed into the sea . |
| 20 | We came down in a small clearing and ended up in the trees . |
| 21 | The-other four Goshawk aircraft came down in an angled line which allowed each gun to rake the target from nose to tail in a continuous devastation of bullets . |
| 22 | Half way through his super-human effort his foot slipped and in mid-launch he came down in an uncoordinated heap just outside the throwing circle . |
| 23 | During the Permian period , about 280 million years ago , and until the start of the Mesozoic era , the continents came together in a single mass . |
| 24 | The painter 's eye , the poet 's search for meaning , and the social anthropologist 's interest in the everyday came together in a unique film style which built overall impressions from the juxtaposition of detail . |
| 25 | In September 1946 , for example , parliamentarians from several countries came together in an International Committee for the Study of European Questions , which published a report in favour of union . |
| 26 | It nearly always came over in a bad light , as a bunch of cocooned scientists trying to hoodwink the common sense of ordinary folk . |
| 27 | This fella came over in an 18–30 steward 's blazer and he said , ‘ You 're responsible for me working here ’ . |
| 28 | She came back in a lively mood dressed in ruby velvet with her furs . |
| 29 | She came back in a few minutes , looking very serious . |
| 30 | He sighed heavily and his voice came out in a nervous croak . |