Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb mod] come [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It is all so much work and nothing may come of it .
2 Yet everyone may come into contact with the mentally handicapped at some stage in their lives ; indeed any one of us may be accidentally brain damaged .
3 Everlast has made much in recent interviews of HOP 's lack of meaning — they 're just regular guys who enjoy a few bevvies and like to get laid , they do n't pretend otherwise , and no-one should come to them expecting anything else .
4 ‘ I feel that nothing should come between brothers in a way that our situation is at , ’ Justin said .
5 off the kitchen and ru and runs the boiler , he said it 's the best kind you can get , nothing should come in there .
6 Another famous one is where someone may come to you with a problem ostensibly to enlist your help in solving it .
7 Steven thinks that just be I only just got in he said , I 'm having my tea and he said there 's no way I 'm gon na do nothing like that at this time of night when I 've been fourteen hours at work So then he stormed off back home again so he said well you 'll have to move it cos it 's obstructing the dual carriageway someone might come round that corner fast and hit it .
8 Someone could come at any minute .
9 Erm er I 'm very grateful to Dr and I 'll offer him another story , a woman who 's now died whom I used to visit who sat with her coal fire set but not lit until someone would come to the door .
10 Better to knock and hope someone would come to her aid .
11 And from a school 's point of view , he felt that ‘ if someone will come to your doorstep to demonstrate , why should you ignore this service and travel to their doorstep ?
12 So you know , nothing might come of that but if it does erm I would be very keen to actually er the , the plan was to second a member of C S M T for six months to do it , and I would be very keen to do it I must admit .
13 Somebody 'll come in a minute ; they must have heard us come in . ’
14 and somebody 'll come in a say , oh I do n't like this and get rid of it !
15 we never used to come in this room you know , nobody would come in this room
16 Maybe somebody would come to the library and that might be the spur that they need " .
17 And maybe somebody would come to your door and say their wee boy or their girl was making their first communion , and they were in dire straights and could n't buy anything for them , and you would more or less have to give them your book to help them out , but you would go with them so that they did n't go over the score and get just exactly what that wain needed , you know , and just hope that they had enough money to pay you at the end of the quarter , you know .
18 She would go that afternoon to fetch water from the fountain , she liked doing that anyway , and nothing could come of it to hurt her , there were always plenty of others there , and she 'd give Tommaso a sign , so that he 'd come , come at night to find her , that was the way it was done , she 'd seen it , becks and smiles under half-dosed eyes as the water brimmed in the young women 's jars .
19 Nothing could come of it .
20 Only now , in love herself and with an inner knowledge that nothing could come of that love , could she fully appreciate what Travis was going through .
21 Once this alienation had set in , it was inevitable that , as in our day , the loved one should come to be regarded — at least by the conscious mind — as no more than a body to be disposed of as quickly and hygienically as possible .
22 Having said this , each one must come by faith .
23 Everything must come to an end , even a long time spent on the run , ’ police quoted him as saying .
24 It then became conceivable that time might simply not be defined before a certain point ; as one goes back in time , one might come to an insurmountable barrier , a singularity , beyond which one could not go .
25 Having accounted for how action types might acquire conventional but unstructured meanings , he advances straightaway to a discussion of how one might come into an alien community and find evidence that their linguistic interactions are structured ( syntactically and semantically ) .
26 We hated to give them any encouragement but something might come of his uncle , if he existed .
27 And when I found out the lady was English , it did seem as though something might come of it . ’
28 Hoping that by August next year , something 'll come of this photography and I can walk straight into a maybe go to a college or if that is n't on the cards , into some sort of a technical lab or something .
29 Don the staff comment one could come under the national curriculum levels if you
30 In the High Court , Taylor J found it ‘ very difficult to see how one could come to any other conclusion than that J had a learning difficulty ’ .
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