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 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | UNHAPPY rail passengers ' dreams are about to come true with the right sort of leaves on the line . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I think I came unstuck at the last fence |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | BRITAIN 'S most bitter boxing rivals bawled it out during a chance encounter in London yesterday when Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank came face-to-face for the first time in 25 months since their epic world title fight . |
| 13 | Cadfael came close on the other side . |
| 14 | The aircraft were still dropping the canisters as we came near to the dropping zone . |
| 15 | ‘ And mine , ’ added Isabel , finishing her broth and coming alive under the beneficial effects of warmth and food . |
| 16 | The only one of the top four never to lift the crown , White , a 9–2 shot , is building confidence on coming good at the right time , winning the British and European Opens . |
| 17 | It 's coming close on the right wing . |
| 18 | I have lived in many parts of America , and I can assure you all that Hawaii is as breathtaking as you imagine , that the charm of the Old South is living on in Charleston , and that colonial America will come alive in the small towns of New England , particularly in the autumn when , in the words of Henry James , the ‘ weather is like tinkling crystal and the colours like molten jewels . ’ |
| 19 | But an ideologically sound party had little to fear from this : it could never come adrift from the true interests of the class . |
| 20 | But what we want to know from the right honourable lady what we want to know from the right honourable lady is when they will come clean about the public spending policies that will put taxes in this country up . |
| 21 | They were also raising money for the Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Appeal and making a dream come true at the same time . |
| 22 | Providing he comes through unscathed he could then find himself in line for a place when the same counties come face-to-face in the senior championship this day fortnight in Newry . |
| 23 | A length of pipe that is the diameter of the intake of the powerhead should be cut so that it fits upright in the jar and come level with the top edge . |
| 24 | The house alone had been like a dream come true after the two-bedroomed flat on the outskirts of Stirling where she and her mother had lived in near penury for the past seven years since Shiona 's father 's death . |
| 25 | It 's trendy 'n' neat and comes complete with the bestest games that you 'll ever meet ; A stylish cassette box is what it is , and it 's yours for nuffin when you subscribe to this ! |
| 26 | The disk is a slimline 3.5 ’ unit and the machine comes standard with the 15.7 MIPS 25MHz CPU with 8Mb of main memory expandable to 48Mb , 3.5 ’ floppy and 103-key keyboard with all the functions of a Sun-4 desktop workstation keyboard . |
| 27 | It comes easy to the habitual vagrant ; it is well-nigh impossible to the inexperienced . |