Example sentences of "come [adv prt] of their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like so many boys who had come out of their National Service I had changed . |
| 2 | ‘ Few human geographers seem willing to come out of their national shells and take the wider view which would enable them to understand what is going on within their own countries ’ ( Thrift , 1986 , 62 ) . |
| 3 | The fire brigade declined to shed light on the matter , however , claiming that moggies always came down of their own accord . |
| 4 | The rabbits mostly came in of their own accord . |
| 5 | Women from along the street came out of their front doors too . |
| 6 | Thankfully both pilots came out of their fleeting meeting physically unscathed but both will remember the event forever more . |
| 7 | These last two must have felt the stirring of the soul at the sublime beauty which causes the peak experience , and because this sweetness came out of their own minds , theirs was the most intense emotion . |
| 8 | Instinctively her audience came out of their bemused state and worked quickly . |
| 9 | What happened in Middlesex eventually happened all over England , and as Midland bricks and Welsh slates — and later more unspeakable materials like asbestos and corrugated iron — flooded into every corner of provincial England , the ancient local materials that fitted their own regions so well , for they came out of their very soil , disappeared one by one . |
| 10 | There are no cars in Venice — you 'll often see the locals coming out of their front doors and leaping into the boats tied up outside — and everything must be delivered by water . |
| 11 | I ca n't sleep at night for that baby crying , I ca n't breathe in the daytime for that stench of tallow coming out of their back door — and one of his customers brushed me into the dusty street the other day … |
| 12 | In case anyone thinks this was unnecessarily drastic , I did in fact leave them for a couple of hours to see if they would come out of their own accord — but they did n't , and I was concerned that they might starve if left to their own devices . |