Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because we do send people erm er sorry send , we ask people to come on to a training course which we fully expense . |
| 2 | See if you can get one to come along to a Brownie meeting and tell you more about what being a Guide is like . |
| 3 | When Rachel was finally writing up her reports at the end of the morning , Nina suddenly called her and asked if she could come and look at a young man who had come in with a skin rash . |
| 4 | I see , I mean it 's good to see really that er test match has been dom well almost dominated at the moment , by , by a slow bowler , it 's an ideal situation for in England , batsmen done their job , England are in command , got lots of runs to play with , but it 's definitely the left arm spinner who 's causing the , the greatest problem out there , he 's , he 's landing it in the right place , he likes variation in that over , confident enough looks very tempted , always very difficult to come in at first twenty minutes as a batsman , when you 've come in on a turning wicket , a very , very , difficult . |
| 5 | Just before airtime , a story had come in on a drug bust : space was hastily made for this . |
| 6 | She opened the door before Massingham had time to ring , her handsome shield-shaped face composed under the light brown fringe , and looking in her shirt , slacks and leather jerkin as elegantly informal as if she had just come in from a country walk . |
| 7 | One of her few friends in the movement , whom she used to meet at Lockharts in the Strand for a poached egg once a week , had come down from a mill town in Lancashire in 1916 with nothing but two brown paper parcels . |
| 8 | ‘ As an example , we have come up with a de-sulphurization system to prevent damage to natural gas pipelines and a North Sea gas rig has had the equipment installed . |
| 9 | After long deliberations , the UIAA 's Alpinism Committee has come up with a draft code of practice which , while largely common sense , has the welcome bonus of strong presumption in favour of conservation . |
| 10 | It 's nice of the Persil people to come up with a washing-up liquid . |
| 11 | ‘ Because it seems they 've managed to come up with a bone marrow donor . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Generally , if I 'm playing on a track , I 'll listen to the lyrics and then I 'll try to come up with a guitar part that suits the song in terms of imagery . |
| 13 | The workshop had looked certain to shut down after the local authority withdrew its funding , but now it 's been given two months to persuade the private sector to come up with a rescue package . |
| 14 | Another resolution would force Mr Urban to come up with a merger proposal involving Pirelli 's tyre business in time for Continental 's annual general meeting in June . |
| 15 | After dinner that evening , Cocello instructed Randy Mueller to set up a task force team from Detroit to come up with a phase-out plan for vehicle manufacture , and a phase-in plan for supplying the UK market from imports , |
| 16 | And what do you do when to come up against a brick wall ? |
| 17 | Don Mini turned to one of the robins which had just come back from a practice flight with a child Minpin on its back . |
| 18 | This results in a clean , undistorted image which looks like it 's come out of a laser printer rather than a fax machine . |
| 19 | They must have come out of a back entrance to the flats and they were intent on avoiding somebody , although I 'd seen nothing suspicious when I 'd cruised down Seymour Place . |
| 20 | Westward had recently been the scene of a public boardroom row that could have come out of a TV series . |
| 21 | The Feldwebel had not moved and I looked all the way up his black leather jack-boots and the thin grey greatcoat with its cheap tin buttons looking as if they had come out of a Christmas pudding before I noticed that his eyes were slightly open and that he was watching me with an uncle 's amusement . |
| 22 | If you want the motif to come out as a mirror image of the graph , keep the graph the right way up and start knitting from row 1 at the bottom of the sheet . |
| 23 | Assume a kneeling position and then put one foot in front of the other to come back into a standing position . |
| 24 | It looks at the reasons for dissatisfaction at the ways in which complaints are handled , highlighting an example of an elderly couple who had waited two years for someone to come round with a colour chart , prior to decorating the outside of their house . |
| 25 | For a Wednesday to come round without a Pack Meeting to look forward to simply would n't bear thinking about . |
| 26 | ‘ Apart from his match-winning goal against Oxford United , I was pleased with his overall contribution when he came on as a second-half substitute . |
| 27 | And Coppell may have to pair his £100,000 capture from non-League Sutton with another rookie , 18-year-old Grant Watts , who came on as a half-time substitute at QPR last Saturday . |
| 28 | However , the Scots launched a spirited recovery in the second half against a very powerful side made up of former and future Wallaby internationals and , especially after David Sole came on as a replacement prop , they took complete control of the match , running in four excellent tries in an exciting 24–24 draw . |
| 29 | Spotting the light of prospect , Christopher Barry applied to join the BBC , and came in as a Production Assistant in 1955 . |
| 30 | And Daniel came in on a hospital trolley disguised as a sleigh with scarlet blankets and silver-paper runners , drawn by hospital porters dressed as polar bears . |