Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Injuries have hit the club , and coach Billy Lomax had to come on as a substitute midway through the second half . |
| 2 | The exchange rate mechanism works as follows : ( a ) a rise in money supply causes interest rates to fall ; ( b ) the rise in money supply plus the fall in interest rates causes an increased supply of domestic currency to come on to the foreign exchange market ; this causes the exchange rate to fall ; ( c ) this will cause increased exports and reduced imports , and hence a multiplied rise in national income . |
| 3 | ERA is one of more than 50 new ales to come on to the Scottish market in the past year . |
| 4 | The yellow nylon shirt with the frothy frill amounts to an offence against taste bordering on the criminal , yet it somehow works to offset his complexion ( pale blue ) and the ensemble enables him to come on like a chat-show host from Hell — vast smiles and arms flung out in gestures of mock formality . |
| 5 | Worst Career Move of the month : ex-world 's greatest sleazeball James Woods trying to come on like a middle-aged woman 's dreamboat opposite Dolly Parton in Straight Talk , which also has the biggest supporting cast of the month : Griffin Dunne , John Sayles , Spalding Gray . |
| 6 | And then we used to and they used to come along with the old cart and start leading . |
| 7 | The other lad who made a commitment came as a non-believer but was willing to come along with an open mind and on studying the gospels came to believe Jesus was indeed who he said he was and shortly after made his commitment . |
| 8 | But I cooled him out and he agreed to come along to a new rehearsal place that we 'd found , The Rose And Crown in Wandsworth . |
| 9 | We turned our ponies and galloped back to the Legation , where we learnt that news had just come in of a great victory for the Shoan army . |
| 10 | It turned out to have come in through the curved zip which is unprotected by a weather flap . |
| 11 | This beggar had come in to the fitting shop , corner at the back corner , where he should n't have been . |
| 12 | While it has come in for a certain amount of criticism , it has also attracted much praise , especially from industry . |
| 13 | Understandably , this presumption has come in for a great deal of criticism . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , Sun has come in for no small amount of criticism in pursuing what is often strictly an ‘ invented here ’ approach to technology solutions , at the expense of making some pragmatic marketing decisions . |
| 15 | What I might actually do it see if Ian 's not doing anything if he not come in for the full time that they 're cleaning up , but come in for those sort of things . |
| 16 | It is hard to disappoint someone who may have come in as a last port of call when all other channels to sort out their problems seem closed . |
| 17 | Only a party bigot would claim that they had somehow come in with the Conservative Government three years earlier . |
| 18 | Reproaching herself for not having unlocked it when she had come in from the main door , she rose quickly and went to open up . |
| 19 | Half of the extra cash will be forthcoming only if projects of sufficient quality to take up the whole £2 million come in by the next deadline for grants on 1 April . |
| 20 | If Lili had come in by the back door it had been very late indeed . |
| 21 | But I quite see that you need someone to come in on a practical issue like what to do about his tenants . |
| 22 | And really I 'm going to start off and then Liz is going to come in on a particular aspect of this . |
| 23 | In terms of progressing or taking part in the discussion , can I suggest that if you want to come in on a particular item , you put your name board up like that , so that we can readily observe it er and equally , our friend who is looking after the microphones can make sure that the vol the volume of your microphone is turned up at the appropriate time . |
| 24 | Mountbatten 's especial qualification in Attlee 's eyes for the job of viceroy was his success in getting the Burmese nationalists to come in on the British side in the closing stages of the war ; it was Attlee 's firm belief in later life , as indeed it was Mountbatten 's , that if Mountbatten had been left in charge in Rangoon , Burma would never have left the Commonwealth . |
| 25 | and erm I used to do erm , keep a check on the flying times of the planes cos every forty hours they had to come in for a different check . |
| 26 | He never wrote entirely admiring reviews : ‘ It 's the essence of a book never to be perfect , ’ he said , ‘ so its writer must expect to come in for a little criticism . ’ |
| 27 | We used to come in for a fair amount of ribbing and good-natured chaff , and remarks like , Was it a red sky this morning ? |
| 28 | She said politely , ‘ Would you like to come in for a last drink ? ’ |
| 29 | He was recently fined £500 by the European Tour when , after a first round of 74 in his defence of the Mediterranean Open , he refused to come in for the requested press interview . |
| 30 | ‘ They 're going to come in at the far end . ’ |