Example sentences of "come [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People are more likely to come home after a few drinks , light a cigarette and then fall asleep , often with tragic consequences . |
| 2 | ‘ Many of Scotland 's football stars have come originally from the amateur ranks . ’ |
| 3 | Menachem Begin used to come here during the 1948 battles to this house , and he came up to see us three or four times during the fighting to have coffee and biscuits with us . |
| 4 | At least our ministers wear trousers — though you would wonder , if Bisset is frightened to come here among the desperate sinners of Grandtully . ’ |
| 5 | It 's especially important for the seven England players because we have to come here in the Five Nations in the New Year . ’ |
| 6 | The report adds that the question of " burden sharing " is crucial , as past accumulations of greenhouse gases have come largely from the industrialised world while future growth is likely to come increasingly from the developing nations . |
| 7 | It seemed strange to me that many dead Germans we had come across in the built-up areas after leaving the landing beaches yesterday morning had no boots on , some were even minus socks . |
| 8 | These approvals are the first to come forward under the transitional arrangements the Government set up to cover RECHAR in the 1992–93 financial year . |
| 9 | Rope and spars came mostly from the Baltic states and the convoys got through with difficulty . |
| 10 | Silence came only in the deep watches of the night . |
| 11 | Like many other things in the Community , however , the impetus came more from the internal tensions within the Community , and from the self-interest of its members than from loftier aims . |
| 12 | They came notably from the petty tradesmen , craftsmen , journeymen and apprentices of the capital 's myriad manufactures . |
| 13 | Sir Ivor came smoothly round the retreating horses to take third place on the rails behind Czar Alexander , with Fort Marcy on the outside . |
| 14 | This time the Mondays felt the full bite of backlash and came across as a scummy homophobes busy , said writer Stephen Wells , ‘ articulating bootstrap Thatcherism ’ . |
| 15 | He looked inquiringly at Narouz and then came across to the two men , bowed and shook hands . |
| 16 | The tears came then with the tearing sobs that racked Hari and set up a trembling within her as though she had the ague . |
| 17 | Fertilization consists of the coming together of the two sets of chromosomes , 23 paternal and 23 maternal ones , so providing a new set of 46 chromosomes ‘ yoked together ’ in the zygote , which is the first cell of the new individual . |
| 18 | Under the auspices of a previous coming together of the same organisations found in HOG ( plus one or two others ) , the Forum has already put together a set of Open Management Interoperability Points — OMNIpoints — which define interoperable network management products . |
| 19 | Already their affair was like marriage , with its own dispiriting routine , this shabby coming together for a few hours in the shabby office . |
| 20 | Where a man can become more male and a woman more female by coming together in the full rigors of the fuck … homosexuals , it can be suggested , tend to pass their qualities over to one another , for there is no womb to mirror and return what is most forceful or attractive in each of them . |
| 21 | The ceremonies lasted for a month and millions attended , many coming only for a few days . |
| 22 | Building the ark was n't a matter of nipping to the DIY shop and coming home with a few boxes labelled ‘ Flatpack ark ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ My eldest daughter Catherine 's behaviour became unacceptable to the family : she was always disappearing with these friends and coming home in the early hours . ’ |
| 24 | Partridge had got all angry and upset soon too because as he was struggling with Steven a magazine fell out of his trousers on to the towpath of the canal and the other men had picked it up and it had been a spanking magazine so all the other men who were n't laughing and shouting already started teasing partridge ; Partridge started trying to wrestle Steven to the ground but Steven had got free and clouted the other man with the shovel , which was still bloody from hacking the cat to bits , and after that , with the magazine coming apart as the other men grabbed at it and Partridge rolling about dazed on the towpath in the cat 's blood and almost falling into the canal , Dan Ashton had said soberly that enough was enough and they 'd better go and see Mr Smith the supervisor because they just could n't go on like this . |
| 25 | Now that fabric of our existence is coming apart under the psychic emissions of a billion , billion spiritual ‘ cancers ’ . |
| 26 | A seminar , for example , might come somewhere between the two poles . |
| 27 | You might come away with a few commissions of your own . ’ |
| 28 | The rioters , who held the streets of London for three days after Wilkes ' election , although they did not come exclusively from the working classes , were still overwhelmingly so composed . |
| 29 | There was one person I thought might come across with a few facts , Mahoney 's girl , Connie Fraser . |
| 30 | The notion that ideas come only from the professional specialists in the field must not be allowed to obtrude , nor the traditional ‘ we tried that and it did n't work ’ story . |