Example sentences of "come [prep] a [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In the final , Cowan met up with Mark Schofield ( Lancs ) , the number two seed who himself had come through a tough semi-final meeting with fellow Bisham boy , Philip Fowler . |
2 | Government spending had already been reviewed and cut substantially , but the time had now come for a great public gesture ; this was supplied by the appointment of the Geddes Committee , a typical Lloyd George manoeuvre using businessmen instead of MPs or ministers . |
3 | The most awkward joints were where the glazing bars met the curved members , any-way , after cutting about fifty joints in all , rebates for glass , slots for fielded panels , mouldings on corners and moulded glazing fillets the time had come for a complete dry assembly of the members . |
4 | If the candidate replies that she/he helped run a youth club in the town where she/he lived before you can be reasonably sure that a large number of young people is not going to come as a strange new experience . |
5 | In days to come as a staid married man and paterfamilias I shall remember my darling Lily with affection … . |
6 | There was a strong hint of a beautiful day to come with a pale blue sky and the sun sparkling off the early morning dew . |
7 | Probably based in Germany , it would have a significant British element and was likely to come under a British commanding officer . |
8 | But now , I think he 's come into a great second flowering . |
9 | So it was a shock this morning , after miles of deserted sands , to come into a small crowded bay : to see buckets and spades and sandcastles , a parade of shops with fishing nets and beach balls and to return to a world of people . |
10 | That last bomb had taken out those houses as if it had come with a great grasping fist and scooped them up and crunched them into rubble as easily as if they 'd been made of matchsticks . |
11 | Come on man , I 've got Come with a nice young lady , intelligent In a cardboard box , informer lick your boom boom there lick your boom boom there with my dibby , dibby dob , police knock my door , they shout my crib , rough me up and I ca n't do a thing , pick up the when the telephone ring informer . |
12 | My father was a missionary had come from a dusty little town in South Africa , I 've got many wonderful experiences in my life , I 've had experience of heart transplant . |
13 | Most notably , the Spanish strategy was being implemented by a modernizing , socially reformist government , while in Britain the increasing pressures on the railways in recent years have come from a radical Conservative government hostile to the public sector in principle . |
14 | One night at a Sandinista party high on the mountains outside of Jinotega , I found out the advise had first come from a certain political adviser with offices in Old Compton Street , London . |
15 | The question then as to whether feminism and Christianity are compatible is that of whether the equality of women is compatible with a religion which has come from a past patriarchal age . |
16 | They had come in a good strong box , which Boy had kept . |
17 | The British Bankers Association has sent a letter advising people to be on the alert ‘ if the money in a deal purports to come from a miscellaneous offshore source or if the intermediary is a small company in the suburbs . ’ |
18 | Lounging putti watch fountains plash in the parterre , and there is a huge leafy pillbox through whose massive walls you fight to come upon a hushed round pond with lilies and a boat . |
19 | I am in regular contact with the programmer , who is using the ‘ functional specification ’ to come to a fuller technical specification which we will agree . |
20 | And at the last him happened to come to a fair green way . |
21 | ‘ You 've come at a gay bad time . |
22 | ‘ He came through a 90 minute practice match behind closed doors in midweek and will help us at the back . |
23 | The problem he says is only that Mr Tijani turned out to be so ill , otherwise he came as a legitimate private patient . |
24 | True dawn came as a dirty yellow streak in the east that slowly lost its colour as it spread into a cold grey , filled with racing clouds . |
25 | Yet there can be no room for complacency after shock home defeats by Watford and Barnsley defeats that were all the more disappointing because they came after a long unbeaten home run . |
26 | The ruling came after a 10-day industrial tribunal hearing at which Robert Nicholson , 58 , challenged Birmingham Education Authority 's decision to dismiss him . |
27 | The pressure on feed prices came after a big Chinese order , for 1.7m tonnes of EC wheat , turned out to be largely coming from French intervention stores . |
28 | Sophia had , in a sense , married beneath her , for although Mark came of a good clerical family he was without private means . |
29 | Oldham 's one hope came with a dubious second half penalty award when Colin Hendry was ruled to have pushed Ian Olney . |
30 | The latest rebuff to the manufacturers of substitutes for breast milk came in a rare secret session of the WHO 's executive board . |