Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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31 The remains of her whiteface make-up came off with the clotted badges of blood .
32 He came up for a few days and stayed in Mackay 's Hotel in Ardallt .
33 A number of players had been tried , but none came up to the subtle demands of the job .
34 I can if you want , it 's just that I came up with a few things that did n't make sense , they were fairly contradictory things .
35 Sapiens International Corp NV has definitive agreement to acquire SmartStar Corp , the privately-held Goleta , California that came up with the first applications generation language for Digital Equipment Corp 's VAX/VMS , and is now working on object-oriented user interfaces for databases .
36 But no , Bill then gave them another chance and another meeting , this time 120 skaters went along , and they came up with the following ramps : 20ft wide 6ft tall spine ramp , with the spine itself being 12 ft wide [ the other 8ft bit being platform ] , and another 12 ft wide mini ramp , plus street stuff like fun boxes etc .
37 For the record , Olivier 's 1978 elephant census came up with the following figures :
38 Americans came up with the Big Ideas for videocassette recorders , basic oxygen furnaces , and continuous casters for making steel , microwave ovens , automobile stamping machines , computerized machine tools , integrated circuits .
39 How could she be expected to cope with stupid computers that had n't the wit to understand a simple error , or calculators that came up with the wrong numbers ?
40 They came up with the Militant Clergy Association , which is understood to be moderate , and the Militant Clerics Society , which is described as left-wing fundamentalist .
41 For the first time Gould came up against the devastating effects of unlimited commercial exploitation .
42 ONCE-RACED MILIYEL * , who came up against the 1,000 Guineas ante-post favourite Musicale when both made their debut at Lingfield last season , may open her account in the Geoffrey Barling Maiden Fillies ' Stakes ( 2.00 ) at Newmarket today .
43 Some of the nomes scouted around the sheds and came back with a few vegetables that had been missed , but it was a pitifully small amount .
44 Sounds came back to the watching eagles .
45 She came back in a few minutes , looking very serious .
46 The attendant came back after a few minutes , its little red boots ruffling the hem of its robe .
47 The surface had just begun to shimmer in the light when Mrs Rosalia Alderley came out through the French windows of the ballroom and stopped , staring in thunderstruck amazement .
48 A late arrival came out between the automatic doors , stared at the queue , walked back inside to join the uniformed chauffeur who had been waiting and holding a card .
49 Mahmoud came out of the Mixed Tribunals and crossed the street towards him .
50 That came out of the Current Issues in Agricultural Economics book .
51 Hulagu came out of the clustered spectators .
52 Someone came out of The Two Pheasants and latched the door back to the wall hospitably .
53 He came out of the northern clubs and was loved by millions . ’
54 Matthew and Sara and the children with them came out of the old woods into the new plantation , where rows of conifers , dark green , were interplanted with small spindly brighter green beeches .
55 Gazzer came out of the main doors of St Mark 's .
56 No one asked that question , they simply focused upon er the , the communist insurrection in the south and the American , American commitment to the global containment of communism meant that they had to go and do something about it and domestic political pressures were there too er President Kennedy came out of the Cuban missiles crisis a hero because his people mistakenly believed that he 'd won a foreign policy success and that he 'd acted in a restrained and statesmanlike manor .
57 Woodward came out as the two men turned and walked away in step .
58 When I was in the hospital after I 'd had Baby , a bloke came round with the different contraceptives , saying which one are you going to use .
59 ‘ Itsi ’ won his cap eighteen years ago , coming on in the dying seconds of an 8–1 victory over Hong Kong .
60 From his new station he could see the three lakes — Loweswater , Crummock Water and Buttermere — lined up in the valley like three barges ready to be towed down to the shore ; he could see the bivouac huts of some woodmen and he spotted more than one flock coming down from the high pastures — but Mary chided him .
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