Example sentences of "come [adv] [conj] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A colleague of mine in Buckinghamshire had great difficulty in selling his little terraced house ; after months on the market not one person had come further than the front door and he was about to lower the already modest asking price . |
| 2 | The protectorate agreement came just as the Russo-Japanese War seemed to suggest new hopes of Asian independence , and Japan 's claim to champion the cause of Korean modernization and Asian nationalism was rendered particularly insulting by the brutality with which all manifestations of anti-Japanese sentiment were suppressed under the protectorate . |
| 3 | Most of its soft top simply came away but the whole car seemed to move sideways . |
| 4 | The offer , from ABC , came shortly after the last episode was screened and would have required him to make twenty-four programmes a year for a possible five years . |
| 5 | All the occupants of Teignmouth had fled as the French came ashore and the 500 horse militia which assembled on Haldon [ or Halden ] Hill , some two miles [ 3.2 km ] behind Teignmouth , simply watched as the invaders tore down the thatch from the cottages before setting them on fire . |
| 6 | When the Prodigal came home and the elder brother became jealous and self-righteous , the antidote for his sour-grapes was a refresher course for his memory : ‘ My boy , ’ said the father , ‘ you are always with me , and everything I have is yours . ’ |
| 7 | It was like coming home and the first thing she did was to walk to the pictures that hung on the wall and look at them all over again . |
| 8 | It may come sooner than the present management thinks . |
| 9 | Animals come here and the only contact they have with man is a prod or a kick and that combines with the stress of the journey and the noise . |
| 10 | This further sign of disunity among the opposition comes just as the former president , Valery Giscard d'Estaing , who is also the leader of the UDF , has called for a fusion of the seven parties of the centre-right into ‘ one big party of the centre-right by the beginning of 1992 ’ . |