Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [pers pn] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nearest they came to securing the cushion of a two-goal lead came when Rush lobbed the ball into the path of Davenport , who failed to get sufficient power into a shot to beat Walton , who was still deputising for the injured Gunn . |
| 2 | But the nearest they came to scoring was in the forty third minute ; Neil Keller in the Rayners Lane goal saving brilliantly from a fifteen yard volley from Martin Shepherd . |
| 3 | The nearest I came to fishing was as number three in a racing four on the grubby River Tees , when I joined the Tees Amateur Rowing Club . |
| 4 | The more we come in contact with animals and observe their behaviour , the more we love them , for we see how great is their care for their young . |
| 5 | He stepped back , pausing to think , but the more he tried to invent reasonable explanations , the more he came back to the obvious truth : someone had put out the light and locked him in . |
| 6 | The closer she moves towards death , the more he comes to passionate life . |
| 7 | And the more I conduct it , the more it comes to seem the richest of all his operas . ’ |
| 8 | Jürgen Moltmann once said so memorably : ‘ The nearer we come to Christ , the nearer we come together . |
| 9 | Jürgen Moltmann once said so memorably : ‘ The nearer we come to Christ , the nearer we come together . |
| 10 | The nearer we came to Halifax , we found the houses thicker , and the villages greater in every bottom ; and not only so , but the sides of the hills , which were very steep every way , were spread with houses , and that very thick ; for the land being divided into small enclosures , that is to say , from two acres to six or seven acres each seldom more ; every three or four pieces of land had a house belonging to it . |
| 11 | The closest they came was in the mid-Eighties when their group , Trash , Flash And Money — ‘ straight down-the-line uninteresting Billy Idol rock music ’ — was signed to a development deal by Capitol records in America ( in a development deal they give you some money while they decide whether you are any cop after all ) . |
| 12 | Celtic finished the half well on top , though the closest they came was from the powerful long range shooting of Polish defender Wdowczyk . |
| 13 | The closest I came to anything clinical was watching a nurse shave the chest of a Lebanese businessman , so that she could attach the electrodes required for an ECG — I held the kidney dish into which the used razor was deposited . |
| 14 | — to see ‘ it all fits ’ the closer we come here : |
| 15 | No , the closer we come to that terrible moment … no , Rabbi , I wo n't be able to endure ! ’ |
| 16 | The further we research into the intricacies of the human genes , the closer we come to the possibility of refashioning human biological existence . |
| 17 | The closer we come to the game the more we focus as a group , and the more people drop off the equation . |
| 18 | The closer he came , the more mysterious the shed seemed . |
| 19 | The closer he came to attaining power , the more , purely for presentational purposes , anti-Semitism had to be subordinated to or subsumed within other components of the Hitler image . |
| 20 | A few yards on and she saw there was no answering wave and she faltered , uncertain if this was Ferdinando or some other lone horseman before whom she would make a fool of herself , but the closer he came the more sure she was that this was her husband and then she chided herself for thinking he had hands free to wave when one was needed for the reins and the other to hold the child . |
| 21 | The closer she came to the centre of Steel City the more guards there were . |
| 22 | The closer she came to meeting Vitor d'Arcos again , the more her adrenalin surged and the more she wished there had been something to prevent her attendance . |
| 23 | To pick up a well they come here one afternoon to pick up a car . |