Example sentences of "[conj] come [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You mean they were probably lying or coming over romantic about the past , and , what 's more , all those old poets were probably doing the same thing . |
| 2 | Refusing to be tested or coming up positive usually results in immediate sacking . |
| 3 | We have a wide range of interesting and exciting trips lined up for you including a trip on an authentic spanish galleon to the famous Papagayo beach , or come back laden with bargains from the Sunday market at the old village of Teguise with a variety of exotic , local handicrafts . |
| 4 | He had seen his earliest pupils , as had my father , either not come back at all , or come back broken men . |
| 5 | Anything that 's , anything that came up that was , that you felt you wanted to tell the others about ? |
| 6 | Again , that came up this morning as well . |
| 7 | the one that came out first thing Wednesday morning . |
| 8 | ‘ The music that will be put into the Mister Roadrunner show is the best music of the past 40 years whereas Juke Box Jury was the records that came out that week . |
| 9 | The rules of the STV game decree that the only ballot papers needing to be considered for transfer are those that came along last , i.e. in the present case those that lifted Craig 's votes from below to above the quota . |
| 10 | Well no , what you want to do , ask that same gang that came in last week , |
| 11 | Perhaps a better definition of discourse processing is to state that it attempts to describe the ’ extra meanings ’ that come about due to the combination of individual sentences within a larger passage of text . |
| 12 | Several were almost tharn — that is , in that state of staring , glazed paralysis that comes over terrified or exhausted rabbits , so that they sit and watch their enemies — weasels or humans — approach to take their lives . |
| 13 | Remembering how often she had bought skin care products and abandoned them she thought of the collection of half used jars and tubes in her dressing table drawer and came up this headline : " Our creams and lotions are all used up " with the striking visual of a tube squeezed to the last drop . |
| 14 | For a bet , he had once broken into the flat where a certain Vice-Questore was entertaining a lady friend and removed the couple 's clothes so stealthily that the Vice-Questore thought something supernatural must have occurred and came over all religious for a while . |
| 15 | It was the same idea of the Empire as a patrimony , or an estate , the source of a livelihood for the mothercountry , to which Chamberlain had appealed : ‘ I know how our forefathers … bore themselves bravely in the titanic strife with Napoleon and came out victorious . |
| 16 | Afterwards she parted the curtains and came out naked to lift the unsleeping , finely aware child back into bed , to lie between her and the man lying open-mouthed in post-coital sleep . |
| 17 | He had seen men come and go ; squads of them went through their training and came out bright-eyed WOP-AIRs thirsting to get on to an aerodrome to finish their training and then into action . |
| 18 | It was followed by the educational ‘ comic ’ , Orbit ( published by the Commission for Technical Education and Vocational Training ) , which was sold through schools and came out three times a term . |
| 19 | He hung in the air for a moment , then kicked again , tuck-rolled , and came out level with the combat-master 's waist . |
| 20 | Niki ducked into the pits , changed tyres and came out twenty seconds behind Tambay . |
| 21 | Tired , too : she lay awake at night , thinking , and came down several mornings so pale that Auntie Lou wanted to go to the chemist and buy her a tonic . |
| 22 | The little book went up in the air and came down shut . |
| 23 | So , off he went and came back one day saying that he thought he had the song I 'd been looking for . |
| 24 | Her mum 's 30-year-old wedding dress , altered to fit Joanne , was ruined at the cleaners and came back two inches shorter than when it went . |
| 25 | He washed his face in cold water and came back red-eyed but awake . |
| 26 | Jim took the letter to Cedric Mellings , and came back limp and weepy with happiness . |
| 27 | Next , three young ladies went in together , and came back full of praise for the gipsy 's skill . |
| 28 | Fierce Eyes went outside and came back excited . |
| 29 | He lost himself in its possibilities , its immensity , he went far out , and came back dazed , stunned by horizons , often with sketches he had done in a hurry and afterwards flew at with the axe of a black crayon , or a pen loaded with black ink , hacking at them fiercely , savagely , to kill off the sentimental and picturesque that was so much in vogue . |
| 30 | I have n't stayed in for about two months , about eight weeks , not one night , and he goes , ‘ I think you should stay in at least one ’ , and I goes , ‘ If you think I 'm staying in then you get lost , because I 'm not staying in this flaming house ’ , and he goes , ‘ You 're staying when I tell you to ’ , and I goes , ‘ I wo n't ’ , and I walked out and came back ten minutes later and said , ‘ I 'm going out , all right ? ’ and he goes , ‘ Okay ’ , and he give me some money to go out and come up here [ to the youth club ] . |