Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [prep] [pos pn] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I take it then that you have also come in for your share of press flights of fancy ? ’ |
| 2 | So we asked some of the other Liverpool stores to come up with their definition of Merseystyle … |
| 3 | So we asked some of the other Liverpool stores to come up with their definition of Merseystyle … |
| 4 | ‘ You 've just come out on my side of the argument . |
| 5 | He had come out of his cubbyhole of an office , adding with a trace of Cockney twang , ‘ This ai n't no place for sending parcels ! ’ |
| 6 | Only when Helen and Tony told him that Helen expected a baby before Christmas did he seem to come out of his stupor of misery . |
| 7 | In my opinion this was one of the few good things to come out of our membership of the Common Market . |
| 8 | So far from convincing Karen she was wrong , by the Sunday afternoon I had come round to her point of view . |
| 9 | You are suggesting , tactfully , that he did n't like what he saw ( correct ) , and that if he had seen more , he would perhaps have come round to your way of thinking in these matters ( incorrect ) . |
| 10 | ‘ My dear Kegan , you know as well as I do that you came in on my side of the fence not out of some great disinterested love of science — you do n't know what science is all about ! — but because you saw a hope of personal glory in it ! |
| 11 | The water came up to my cross-bar of my bike so it must have been about three feet deep . |
| 12 | Frank came up with his idea of muonic atoms and the consequent possibility of cold fusion as the result of a picture of the cosmic particles that the Bristol physicists had obtained . |
| 13 | I came round to her way of thinking and handed over the Visa card . |
| 14 | He came round to her side of the desk and stood by her chair . |
| 15 | You can not drill a hole in the boat and when water floods in say to your companion , ‘ It 's nothing to do with you , the water is coming in on my side of the boat . ’ |
| 16 | No lovelier sight was ever seen than the herring drifters coming in with their catch of herring on a calm sea in the mornings . |
| 17 | ‘ Tell me , Ralph , ’ she cooed , ‘ do you know of any safe seats that are coming up in your part of the world ? ’ |
| 18 | Coming out with your list of what you want for your birthdays . |
| 19 | coming round to our way of thinking regarding the capabilities of the respective forces . |
| 20 | Intel itself decommitted from the chip , its own maiden voyage into RISC , several months ago , and will doubtless come in for its share of the blame . |
| 21 | Darlington has 131 of the crime combatting schemes and some volunteers feared they could fold if the council did not come up with its share of the funding Durham County Council provides the other half . |
| 22 | Two honest critics can be given as exceptions , the first a Japanese who recorded a negative reaction to a picture which did not come up to his standards of meaningful symbolism . |
| 23 | Many of the matters arising will come up in my report of correspondence . |
| 24 | You 'll come around to my way of thinking before you 're much older . |
| 25 | Her father disapproved of him , and had said so , but she had always thought that he would come round to her point of view . |
| 26 | He believed , and she had once heard him say , that eventually she would , naturally , come round to his way of thinking , and she had vowed to work harder at the study of English literature in order to learn enough words to refute him once and for all . |
| 27 | In peace-time Achilles and his cronies come down to his level of prose abuse and mockery ( Troilus and Cressida , II.i. ; II.iii ; III.iii ; V.i. ) , but when the fighting restarts Thersites takes no part in it , and is left alone to direct his poisoned breath straight at us . |
| 28 | Come over to my side of the room and have a |
| 29 | Well no , I 'll get it , I 'll probably got some upstairs in my coat , so , when you come up for your cup of tea or whatever , or your bottle of milk . |
| 30 | Finally , there is a latent essentialism in his work , and this comes out in his use of ‘ the body ’ as a final court of appeal , as that which is irreducible to power even as power invests it . |