Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [prep] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For that matter , she might not have been far out in thinking him impudent ; his manner was innocence itself , his deference if anything delicately overdone , as though he were ready to come down off his high horse the moment she came down off hers , and did n't anticipate that the descent need be long delayed . |
| 2 | Kalchu 's younger brother had come over from his neighbouring hut and the two men sat spinning , talking and looking after the small children until their wives returned . |
| 3 | His hooked nose and moustache looked like the plastic variety that would have come off with his thick-lensed spectacles . |
| 4 | I am told that other people have had similar experiences but are not prepared to enlarge on their stories ; perhaps they had seen a ghost of a long-gone railwayman who had worked in the area years ago and had come back to his earthly place of employment ! |
| 5 | When she had once laughingly asked , ‘ Who supplies the meat , Father , and the clothes that go between the hats and the shoes ? ’ he had come back with his usual answer to her , ‘ You 're too sharp by half ; you 'll cut yourself one of these days . ’ |
| 6 | Let him know that something good has come out of his tragic death . |
| 7 | At the age of 47 , he has come out of his creative mid-life crisis and knows how to follow his stunning screen work . |
| 8 | Given the difficulties of keeping tabs on such faraway players , it comes as no surprise to learn that Bilardo has appealed to one of the key figures of his 1986 World Cup team , the 34-year-old Jorge Valdano , to come out of his two-year retirement . |
| 9 | He came down from his native Yorkshire — Halifax in his case — along with fast bowler Frank McHugh in 1952 to join Gloucestershire . |
| 10 | Karajan came down from his high conducting stool , the orchestra regrouped for a Mozart concerto , and for the rest of the afternoon the music-making was active and intense , full of a special vibrancy and good humour . |
| 11 | The perpetual light of Voltai came in through his long windows . |
| 12 | He came in in his old trousers and nightshirt . |
| 13 | He came away from the Old Entrance , having collected those of the destroyer 's crew not taken off by ML 6 , and as Micky Wynn came up with his special MTB , Robert Ryder told him to fire the torpedoes at the outer lock gate in the Old Entrance . |
| 14 | Kuhlmann brushed past his right side , strolled round behind him , came up on his left side and his wide mouth broke into a grin . |
| 15 | Colour came back into his weathered cheeks ; the volcano of prophecy that was known to burn in him had cooled and crusted over . |
| 16 | By the time Birkett came back with his hot fish cakes and his prunes , the bridge players and the man reading the newspaper had moved . |
| 17 | He sped out of the room and came back with his blue knapsack , searching the contents worriedly . |
| 18 | ‘ He came back for his spare hearing-aid ? ’ |
| 19 | Creggan came out of his concrete shelter into his cage , the branch thrust right over it and on to the path in front , and smaller branches from it filling half his cage with confusion . |
| 20 | He had to repeat his greeting twice before the Indian came out of his trance-like reverie and turned to face us . |
| 21 | But the croak that came out of his parched throat was hardly recognisable . |
| 22 | I 'm , I , I noticed er Ricky , they were coming across I was er washing the erm venetian blinds up in the er er bedrooms and he came out with his young lady and er they came down ac across the grass and he was in front , and he jumped over the fence at the bottom , and she this little , and she was ha was having to climb and she was stuck th like that , and he looked back and thought she , he , she was with him and when he s and er he went back , but he went back , and I thought to myself oh like a gentleman , and lifted her over . |
| 23 | This change came about with his full consent and was necessitated by his personal circumstances — a wife who was very ill , and war injuries to his two sons , who both lost limbs . |
| 24 | Nigel came round on his new bike this morning . |
| 25 | So after a quick glance behind him to check that there was nobody coming in on his blind side from the corridor , he crossed to his locker and pointed to the bulge in its door . |
| 26 | But the Duke was coming over with his usual smile , broad and toothless , mantled with crazy mirth . |
| 27 | He flew again within the hour , fat blisters coming up on his right hand and not much left of his eyebrows . |
| 28 | There was a feeling that Mill House might just be coming out of the doldrums : he had won his last race , beating his solitary rival at Sandown Park for the princely sum of £426 , and appeared to be coming back to his old self . |
| 29 | Yeah but like Jake said she , he said it 's coming out of his back pocket anyway |
| 30 | He was driven by a devil that he never knew but he never stopped fighting , a maker of his own myths , Celtic , Faustian , an Icarus and a Don Juan , coming out from his beloved Wales like a mystical warrior to rove the world for conquests , forever unsettled , forever daring . |