Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 Zeyer had come on as a defender to protect the score when Kaiserslautern levelled at 1–1 , but his role changed dramatically when Wednesday immediately hit back to make it 2–1 .
2 Amid mounting chaos , Iliescu issued a radio appeal to factory workers and others to come on to the streets to defend the revolution .
3 Labour Members say that they want to have a debate , yet because they have been discomfited in other debates they have come in to the Chamber to start shouting and jeering .
4 In Jones & Smith [ 1976 ] 3 All ER 54 ( CA ) , the occupier 's son had general permission to enter the house but he did not have permission to come in with a friend to steal two televisions , despite the father 's saying that his son would never be a trespasser in his house .
5 As I thought my parents would still be up , I asked him to come in in an attempt to stop him getting away . ’
6 He had come down to the gallery to join the houseparty , he thought simply to look at a new sculpture , before they all returned to the house for luncheon .
7 Surrounding us on the beach were a large number of French civilians who had come down to the beach to look at the British Tommies .
8 And it had come down to the Valve to see what the Famlio ship was doing there .
9 He had come down to the island to make sure all was well while his grandfather was in hospital .
10 The volatility of the Cusqueños coupled with the increasing pressure among them of poor campesinos who had come down from the Andes to seek a better life stood in ironic contrast to the rigid panoply of the state ; a situation brought home to me on Easter Sunday .
11 She offered to come down for the weekend to help , and Carolyn wanted her badly enough to hesitate before putting her off .
12 FoE campaigner Viv Mountford said : ‘ We have always said that if ICI build an incinerator it could attract other ‘ dirty industry ’ and now already North West Water have come up with a scheme to burn sewage sludge in Widnes .
13 To try to climb out of the hole it is in , Grumman has come up with a plan to turn its F-14 fighter into a ground-attack aircraft .
14 The London based group Centrepoint has come up with a plan to bring together the people needed to get more homes .
15 Now I 'm going to talk to you later , meantime you go down to Level Five and stay there until you 've come up with a plan to infiltrate Finland .
16 Cover Girl have come up with a computer to help you select the most flattering shade of make-up .
17 While British Rail says it ca n't afford to help disabled travellers at Leominster , it has come up with the cash to improve a commuter line that 's been plagued with delays and breakdowns .
18 Not that Loretta had yet come up with an excuse to contact Mrs Grant , even if she acquired a proper address , but that problem could wait until after she spoke to Bridget .
19 They toasted Keith and me ( Keith had come up for the day to join in ) and bought us a slow cooker for our new home .
20 For every complaint that you have there may be 20 dissatisfied people that have n't actually come up to the school to make their feelings known — they do n't even tell you that they are upset .
21 Miss Foley was ready to go now and had come up to the desk to clear his out tray .
22 Last month PHILIP VANN looked at artists who had come up from the mines to become artists ; in this issue he concentrates on those artists who went down to the pit to paint
23 It notes that if Intel Corp were able to come up with a way to drive 3.8m transistors without frying the chip to a frazzle , Pentium would look pretty good .
24 After the sinking of HMS Sheffield , the Ministry of Defence asked MEL ( which makes the Abbey Hill equipment ) to come up with a modification to ensure that it rapidly alerted crews to further Exocet attacks .
25 A ‘ MAGNIFICENT ’ equal third out of a filed of 374 , is how our entry fared in the worldwide competition to come up with a solution to re-seal the ruined Chernobyl reactor .
26 Indeed , while the restructuring plan casts doubt on the firm 's ability to come up with the capital to finance an ambitious plan to expand its telecommunications operation , the extent of the Kontrax Group 's difficulties are hard to assess as it financed its expansion by means of a maze of inter-company loans .
27 But the plans came to nothing when council officers were unable to come up with the money to help host the event which runs from March 3–5 .
28 has to come up to the house to talk to him and erm like he sort of opens the door and just shuts it in his face cos he finds out the other bloke 's a prince and he 's just standing there in the rain .
29 They should also be in frequent contact with all of the somewhat numerous organisations involved in the rural development of the Western Isles , and with the admirable young people who have come back from the mainland to work at the grass-roots level .
30 Conditions of work were not pleasant ; landowners tried to get their estates cultivated by indentured labourers who had come out under a contract to work for some years for the man who paid for the journey or anyone to whom he sold the right to command their services .
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