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

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1 The French government actually wants this archaically hide-bound professional body to reform itself and become more competitive , but is expecting it to come up with a solution itself .
2 Mostly it came over as a matter of feeling hard done by — self-pity rather than bravado ; or a habitual , weary tinkering to save a bit here and there .
3 Tony 's voice , when it came through without a crackle , brought a reassuring flood of gladness .
4 It came down to a willingness to pay for it . ’
5 ‘ Given that I was one of them it came down to a choice between Gower and Gatting .
6 It came back in a form against which there could be no defence .
7 But strangely enough that went out , it came in with a flush see ?
8 It came about through a mixture of chance , his own predilection for holidays , and Neville Chamberlain 's effective , narrow-sighted determination .
9 In part it came about as a reaction to the inordinate complexity of S-R theory but , I believe , it had much more to do with S-R theory 's failure to cope with real psychological problems like the performance of radar operators , and with the availability of machines , computers , with mind-like properties that made it respectable to think in mentalistic terms again .
10 She laughed shortly but it came out as a half-sob .
11 " Please — " I tried to formulate some plea in the middle of a pain , but it came out as a whimper .
12 I yelled … it came out as a croak only but it was a yell in my mind …
13 When the other hand came on her shoulder and turned into a grip , the ice in her body seemed to affect her , for it came out as a croak , saying : ‘ Da …
14 Lorton tried to laugh : it came out as a croak .
15 It came out as an exclamation , and she heard the controller mutter something uncomplimentary through the headphones , but she did n't care .
16 it came out on a Saturday , do you remember where you saw it ?
17 Er , I think it came out at a Trial Audit and we should have a job specification , even if it 's a generic job specification for every member of staff .
18 So it came out of a budget when we were all ratepayers , it did n't come out of poll tax payers ' budgets okay ?
19 Which was interesting at that time , since it came out of a tin and not out of an office .
20 Once she knew the other two women had talked , it came out like a flood .
21 If a " respectable " artisan culture was emerging in late eighteenth-century England , was it coming about by a process of separation from a more embracing " culture of poverty " which included the unskilled and casual labourer , the unemployed , the vagrant and the criminal ?
22 Second , political violence in England was not invented by the BUF , nor did it come about as a response to its activities .
23 He simply went through his nose there 's me wah it come out like a bullet in n it ? wisht like that .
24 So if there 's one draw , for example , or one match which looks as though it stands out as an absolutely surefire score draw , and everybody puts it down , and it comes up as a score draw , then nobody gains anything .
25 So what you do is , to type check disk space slash and then it asks you wh if it comes up with a question , which I expect it may well , if you 've never done this before .
26 Each time it comes up with a reason , just smile and lovingly tell it that you now wish to give up your old payoffs , and believe that life is full of joy .
27 THERE IS nothing particularly difficult about Creag Meagaidh , unless it comes up in a spelling test , yet it took me three attempts to get to the top of the damned thing .
28 Well you were just talking about children erm my feeling is that we 're all children , there is no division between being a child and an adult and I think that they can accept a whole lot , but there 's a whole lot of adults that ca n't accept the shocks that are happening today and they put them into their subconscious and unfortunately it comes out in so many other ways — it comes over as a neurosis or as a mental disorder at some later date .
29 I 've just rung up to see , I was gon na ask Jo to nip out and get me a cake and see if the advert was in , but it do it does n't actually come out , it 's like the local Chronicle here , it comes out on a Thursday night
30 So you raise it to a power , multiply the indices , when it comes out as a fraction , it does n't matter how you
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