Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Blaise Cendrars , the writer , saw Modigliani let fall a twenty-franc note one evening when a well-known pauper came in to sit at the next table . |
2 | All of them failed , from the disastrous Purko Sheep Ranch , where the sheep died because the ranch was at too high an altitude , to the four big grazing schemes which went under in the drought of the early 1960s , when people from outside the schemes , under pressure of need , came in to graze on the permanent waters and massive erosion occurred . |
3 | When Helen came in to help with the spaying operation she looked rather nervous . |
4 | Er many members of the public took advantage of the offer of the more detailed appraisal er and indeed came in to look at the detailed consultants reports . |
5 | When the keeper came up to check on the Spectacled Bears , she could n't understand that Omero and Minky were trying to tell her that Sam was ill , she just saw that he was curled up in a ball and would n't move . |
6 | She said : ‘ After one of his trips to Highgrove he came back raving about the solid gold service . |
7 | Earlier this season , Haslemere might have collapsed at this stage , but they came back to equalise with the best goal of the game . |
8 | It is a curious miscellany , where photographs of his early ballets are mixed in with family snap-shots , pictures of his friends , souvenirs of journeys , Christmas and other greetings , a book of clothing coupons from the days of rationing , costume drawings and various illustrations cut from magazines , including a feature on Roland Petit 's ballet Carmen and examples of the ‘ new look ’ in women 's clothes when long skirts came back to fashion for the first time since the war ; he proposed a ballet about that , but it was rejected . |
9 | I just hoped that Tom would feel better about the situation when he came back to work in the New Year . |
10 | But whether they came out knowing of the Welsh camp , and with some plan of attack , which the Lord Owen by his own stratagem forestalled , or whether they were on other business and would have passed by but for this lure , I tell you honestly , I do not know . |
11 | They changed in the changing rooms so thoughtfully provided and came out shivering in the cool evening . |
12 | But it was Portsmouth who came out firing in the second half . |
13 | Am I glad we came out to work for the entire season , Rosie ! |
14 | Fortunately , in the last week John Major came out fighting on the past reforms and his vision of a free , low tax , property-owning Britain . |
15 | He 's the chief executive of the one of the biggest advertising agencies in the country , he 's coming in to talk about the thirty something phenomena here in the nineties now . |
16 | It was like coming in to land on the wrinkled hide of some sleeping behemoth . |
17 | There were the people coming in to shuffle through the little magazines , Zen Buddhism , Burroughs , Ginsberg , Nuttall , New Departures , Circuit , four letter words , and Indian music . |
18 | He did , however , come back to ride in the later races . |
19 | And all that let me tell you after Pisa looked so dangerous in the first eight minutes , clearly they 'd come out looking for the early goal themselves , and who was badly fouled by in the early stages and needed attention , he 's the number eight , and the number eleven , who looks as quick as any player I 've seen in ages and ages , they are the two danger men and they will need some marking . |
20 | — When Manjiku comes , she shuts her eyes and lets herself fall down his throat past the barbed teeth and come down to land in the foul bilgewater in his gut . |
21 | After five sentences , stop and pause , take a deep breath , look out of the window , then come back to work on the next five sentences . |
22 | A FUSION of pop and hardcore grunge that comes up smelling of the '60s summer sound , but to this they have fitted on a beat of their own which is well worth sitting up and paying attention to . |