Example sentences of "come [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul had reasons for the private emptying of his ; he was still treating himself with a solution of the doctor 's recommended potassium permanganate crystals , and had to make his exit quickly when Willie was out of the room , as that gregarious gentleman would have come with him on the same errand ; then hurry outside with the tell-tale purple contents , empty them , rinse the pot at the pump , and come back . |
| 2 | Indeed , the suggestion might well have come from him in the first place , which would have been so much better for everyone . |
| 3 | After some thought he said ; ‘ Well , I have a daughter your age , and if she were to come to me with the same question I would advise her to terminate . ’ |
| 4 | So it had come to her on the previous day , and came again now , the whiff , or stroke , of solitude , as her final hope for Patrick 's life was extinguished . |
| 5 | The word of Jesus had come to her as a great challenge . |
| 6 | First-class writers can defy this rule-of-thumb , but anyone else doing so risks alienating readers who have come to them for a particular sort of entertainment . |
| 7 | It had come to him over the last year or so that there was only one thing that made him different from other men , and that was the weight he was carrying on his mind . |
| 8 | It had come to him as a blinding revelation when he was but a small child . |
| 9 | The rest come to us through the Northern Real Ale Agency , a wholesaler based in Newcastle . |
| 10 | Your dog could have come to you through a large or small dog charity , breed rescue or a private exchange — if you have given your dog its second ( or third … ) home , we want you to take part . |
| 11 | I have come across it on the American networks , where all script conferences are attended by a legal-looking chap whose only contribution is to say ’ We do not want to offend any groups ’ from time to time . |
| 12 | ‘ How strange to come across you in a civilised setting such as this . |
| 13 | Nothing came for her by the first post . |
| 14 | With a hiss , the double-sided door began to close , just as the figure of Mahon turned the corner and came after them at a terrifying speed . |
| 15 | They called to him twice before he heard , and then he started and came after them at a rapid walk , like a man driven by some urgent pain he could not slough off . |
| 16 | She stopped to catch a child by the hand and whisper some word which was rewarded with a kiss , then caught the corner of her veil to cover her already masked face as the chief driver came towards her for a quick answer to a query , always given and received after the words of greeting and queries as to health had been exchanged . |
| 17 | Four times a day the nurse came towards her across the wide spaces of lino with the shiny basin containing the rattling metal syringe . |
| 18 | After a word with his clerks , Henniker came with me into the other room . |
| 19 | It worked ; the old man came with him into the junk-filled yard . |
| 20 | Since it was the golden-fleeced ram the king really wanted , he was not at all pleased when Marko came before him on the seventh day with a jug of sweet wine and a cluster of grapes in his handkerchief . |
| 21 | ‘ It came from me in the first place , did n't it ? |
| 22 | Very few came to him with a complete understanding of who he was and what he had come to do , so their faith was correspondingly weak . |
| 23 | Leon Kennedy slumped in his chair , laughing , and it came to him with the same elegance as movement . |
| 24 | To develop his system , the idea for which probably came to him during a passing involvement with cable trams , Holroyd Smith built three experimental miniature lines in Halifax during 1883–4 . |
| 25 | The tiny movements of the wherry and the gentle , muted river sounds which came to him through the warm night air gave him no relief . |
| 26 | The sun came to him in a warm gust or like a warm veil enveloping him . |
| 27 | If it now came to him in a new way it was no doubt simply an aspect of his belongingness with Marcus and Irina . |
| 28 | It came to him in the small hours . |
| 29 | Conversely , if the accused can show that the material came to him in the normal course of business from a reputable supplier , he may have a defence . |
| 30 | Eluard 's soaring ‘ lyricism ’ helped to perpetuate a tyranny , and is the kind of thing which led Kundera to employ the title The Lyric Age for the work which first came to him in the mid-Fifties , and which his publishers prevailed on him to retitle Life is elsewhere when it was completed in 1969 . |