Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [prep] a [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | She said politely , ‘ Would you like to come in for a last drink ? ’ |
3 | I feel bitter that while I was out there I was somebody but I 've come back as a third class citizen . |
4 | It has n't come out of a first aid . |
5 | Should n't we be opening our universities to older people , for people to come back for a second dose as it were , for retraining and so on ? |
6 | Lio ! rt came in for a second run , but slower this time to allow for the big man 's unexpected agility . |
7 | The parents of the kids at the school where Mrs Rogers taught had her barred from the school , in case the hit squad came back for a second try . |
8 | When I was driving my new Granada in 1989 and dropped a friend down the road , a police car came past , saw the car with a black man driving it , circled round and came back for a second check . |
9 | The first attempt was almost a disaster , but he got the plane up again and came round for a second shot . |
10 | Right at the end Inst coach Denis Guiler , forced into coming on as a 50th minute substitute so depleted were his side 's ranks , almost stole the headlines with the winner , but his effort was brilliantly saved by goalkeeper Raymond Geddis . |
11 | It 's staring right up at me , like it knows exactly what I 'm thinking , like it knows I have n't got a dream of ever coming up with a first sentence . |
12 | In due course ( usually about the end of January ) such Bills will come up for a second reading , i.e. they will appear again on the order paper for consideration during private business , the first item on the Houses ' agenda after prayers , usually 2.35 to 2.40 or 2.45 p.m . |
13 | ‘ I never seen anybody come back for a second dose of the blue , ’ said a man behind her , for all the world as though he were safe reminiscing in some bar of his old age . |
14 | ‘ Then we would probably have a mandatory defence , which we would not duck , and then come back for a third defence against Bruno . ’ |