Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [prep] [num] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pepe tapped on the door and came in with two glasses of what looked like rum and cola . |
| 2 | He pressed a button on his desk , and an exceedingly attractive girl came in with two cups of coffee . |
| 3 | She was just trying to think what she could say to bring John back to the subject of the library and its workings when Shirley came in with two cups of tea . |
| 4 | things like that , and we also , I think this year we ought to send Sid one because he came up with ten litres of five each of them boxes so came up with ten litres of wine . |
| 5 | things like that , and we also , I think this year we ought to send Sid one because he came up with ten litres of five each of them boxes so came up with ten litres of wine . |
| 6 | Zambia came back with two plates of food and sat down again . |
| 7 | Paul Lane came back with two plates of scrambled eggs and buttered toast . |
| 8 | He came back with two slices of dark brown bread and a semi-transparent lump of fat on the top . |
| 9 | it re and he came back after eight years of of not working there and he came in hello Barbara ! |
| 10 | Frye fumbled again and came out with two pairs of skintight brown gloves of some man-made material . |
| 11 | Coleman published little in his long life — all his works came out within nine years of his appointment as Professor . |
| 12 | No need for secrets , so Mrs Files telephoned her daughter straight away , then told Frank Grimwood who came by with four brace of partridge from yesterday 's let shoot ; who stopped Alec on the tractor with a load of silage behind ; who met Tom in the grainstore ; who found Mary in the estate office when he went in to fill out his time sheet ; who confided in the postman when he came with the afternoon mail ; who amazed Mrs May in Forester 's Cottage when he delivered her Freeman 's Catalogue and a postcard from her son holidaying in Pouket ; who stunned her husband when he came in from the saw mill . |
| 13 | Erm I mean that was quite odd really , we had er quite a few white tenants coming in to one end of the building , erm just saying that , you know , We just ca n't cope with it any more . |
| 14 | There are clearly — even just for music — a variety of options , and the school must eventually come down for one pattern of timing rather than another . |
| 15 | ( See Hall v Marians 19 TC 582 , Wild v King Smith 24 TC 86 , IRC v Gordon 33 TC 226 cf Lord Radcliffe in Thompson v Moyse 39 TC 29 at 337 ; it is not felt that Harmel v Wright 49 TC 149 at 159 alters the position because if one is " keeping one 's eye " ( p157E ) on the income and benefit it does not find its way to the United Kingdom ( it is hardly the case that the income and benefit " come in at one end of a conduit pipe and pass through certain traceable pipes until they come out at the other end to the taxpayer ( in the United Kingdom " ) ) . ) |
| 16 | He comes in with ninety-nine ideas of how to approach a scene . |