Example sentences of "[noun prp] come [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | One Sunday I asked Biddy to come for a walk on the marshes . |
| 2 | Thus Barbarossa came from a noble family , with a background that suited him to his eventual imperial career . |
| 3 | Austin Farrer came on a visit to Lincoln and reported that Ramsey was a great man in the college and held his audiences spellbound and was less mad . |
| 4 | The upkeep of such a house would require a substantial income , she thought to herself ; she remembered that Veronica came from a wealthy family . |
| 5 | Meredith came to a halt by the florists and stared mistrustfully into the window . |
| 6 | In August 1982 , panic broke out in banking circles when Mexico came within a hair of default . |
| 7 | In fact , Lance Percival came to a conclusion as long ago as when the One Over The Eight show was still running that Ken would n't have minded if his comedy days had been over , too . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ It was nice to see Dwight come into a bit of form . |
| 9 | When Shaw died in 1950 he was a very rich man — the net value of his estate was eventually assessed at around £6,250,000 in terms of today 's money ; and the closest Holroyd comes to a sustained narrative is in tracing the fate of his various bequests . |
| 10 | Moreover , it 's surely no coincidence that PWI comes at a time when anti-trust allegations against Microsoft are reportedly still under investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission . |
| 11 | This was when I learnt for the first time how experts conducted dealing for Jim came from a family of dealers . |
| 12 | If the events outlined by Kelly came as a shock or a surprise , he concealed it in his calm measured tones . |
| 13 | Korda came from a broken home and it left him insecure . |
| 14 | The religious divisions in Sussex came to a head when Mary Tudor 's brief reign brought a return to hard-line Catholicism . |
| 15 | The 1968 Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia came as a surprise . |
| 16 | Clift came from a hugely successful New York stage background . |
| 17 | Have you seen Jan and Joan dress up to their their Victorian day Jan came like a an upright stripped erm working , not working class a sort of governess right she had |
| 18 | Nicholas Leventhorpe came from a family active in the duchy since the beginning of the century . |
| 19 | Nicholas Leventhorpe came from a family active in the duchy since the beginning of the century . |
| 20 | In war it was only the poor who were expected to die and so the death of Earl Patrick came as a great shock to everyone . |
| 21 | the set also includes Debussy 's famous orchestrations of the First and Third Gymnopèdies , two short pieces ( Les Pantins dansent and Chooses vues à droite et à gauche [ sans lunettes ] , the latter his only pieces for violin and piano ) and the reasonably well-known Scorate , whose last movement can be heard either as 22 minutes of timeless , hypnotic beauty or the nearest Satie came to a musical sleeping draught . |
| 22 | Bentley Drummle came from a rich family living in the country . |
| 23 | The first real sign of Bodyline came during a match against an Australian XI at Melbourne . |
| 24 | The dog attacks in England came at a time when the government were losing their grip — becoming very unpopular . |
| 25 | With Morley 's dozen Latin works , probably early and almost all intensely penitential , the motet in England came to a not undistinguished end . |
| 26 | Reynolds came across a slim manila folder with the letters ‘ WH ’ marked in red ink on the flap . |
| 27 | Much of the improvement in January came from a sharp and largely unexplained fall in spending by government departments . |
| 28 | The main competition to IBM came from a group of other US mainframe producers , often referred to as the ‘ seven dwarfs ’ or the Bunch . |
| 29 | Lucenzo came to a halt . |
| 30 | Curtis came to a decision . |