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Example sentences of "come [adv prt] in a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	( 3 ) Your house has come up in a random sample of houses in this area and , if you are a full-time housewife , we would like you to tell us about your working day since ( 4 ) we believe that a survey of this subject would be of great value in helping all housewives .
2	With the breakdown of the administration , crime syndicates have come up in a big way .
3	You have come back in a funny mood .
4	She did n't want her voice to come out in a dry croak .
5	Even now , however , he is prepared to accept that he may not be able to come back in a new guise after three years .
6	The fact that the burns had come about in an unforeseeable way did not render the damage too remote .
7	The tall , straight young back that sauntered away down-river , to come about in a wide circuit via the fence of the curator 's garden , and the box hedge that continued its line , maintained too secure an assurance , and too secret a satisfaction of its own , in spite of the dexterity with which it had removed itself from censure .
8	Washington , he said , stood by its commitment to overcome the division of Europe , Germany and Berlin , but this had to come about in a gradual process which satisfied German aspirations and met the ‘ legitimate interests ’ of all concerned .
9	England defenders Rob Jones and Mark Wright came on in a wholesale reshuffle of resources , but any danger that United would feed off the disruption was dismissed by McManaman 's leggy skills .
10	Sandra Peden , her that works in the Co-operative she 's a Gold Medallist in Elocution you know , well wait till I tell you she came on in a long Laura Ashley nightdress carrying a Wee Willie Winkie candlestick with wee pink bedsocks and a matching pompom hat and did Holy Willie 's Prayer .
11	Suddenly a Hurricane came down in a screaming dive and splashed into the sea .
12	We came down in a small clearing and ended up in the trees .
13	The-other four Goshawk aircraft came down in an angled line which allowed each gun to rake the target from nose to tail in a continuous devastation of bullets .
14	Half way through his super-human effort his foot slipped and in mid-launch he came down in an uncoordinated heap just outside the throwing circle .
15	It nearly always came over in a bad light , as a bunch of cocooned scientists trying to hoodwink the common sense of ordinary folk .
16	She came back in a lively mood dressed in ruby velvet with her furs .
17	He sighed heavily and his voice came out in a nervous croak .
18	But his interest in them came out in a unique way almost twenty years ago when he founded a shop that has become a fixture on Prince Street Untitled .
19	It came out in a hoarse whisper , ‘ It 's morning , nearly . ’
20	Nathaniel Sherman jabbed a thumb against his own chest and his words came out in a fierce undertone .
21	We worked our way around the central tier , hands in pockets , and came out in an ornamental garden open to the stars .
22	The abolition of capital punishment and reform of the law on homosexuality came about in a similar way .
23	( a ) If the kind of damage suffered is reasonably foreseeable , it does not matter that the damage came about in an unforeseeable way .
24	The rain was coming down in a solid curtain .
25	‘ James is coming down in a little while , Christina .
26	We were , after all , in the huge personnel carrier area , with pods , shuttles and other small vehicles coming down in a steady stream , every one of them disgorging masked and costumed revellers .
27	Contract tummy muscles before coming up in a controlled manner , exhaling as effort is made .
28	It 's coming up in a great lump .
29	Coming up in a little while we 'll be talking greyhounds , but for now we 'll go back to football and deal with the local classified results with all the local leagues .
30	Not that there 's anything wrong with indie bands — we 've got several very good acts locally — but the traditional pop group is definitely coming back in a big way .