Example sentences of "come [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ability to learn such social skills may come slowly , but can in most cases be taught so that the child learns to behave in a socially acceptable fashion even though they may have limited academic ability . |
| 2 | It is only if you kneel down and call him to you that will he come slowly for his apology . |
| 3 | Yet Citrine was working within a specific , more individualist business culture and , though change could only come slowly , collective discussion remained the only antidote to bureaucracy that he ever really understood . |
| 4 | He rose from the chair and watched the girl come slowly into the room . |
| 5 | The advantages of these are that they last much longer and cost much less to run ( the saving well outweighs the higher asking price ) ; their disadvantages are that the light they give is not quite so ‘ warm ’ and does not come on instantly . |
| 6 | ( HOUSE COLLAPSES ) ’ 'Edward , it 's all in the timing , ’ Cicily Courtneidge once told him , ‘ so do your bit faster and then I 'll come on . ’ |
| 7 | • A new signal at the start of the race told drivers that the red light would come on in five seconds . |
| 8 | Maybe Platt will come on to join Lineker if Bull looks out of his depth . |
| 9 | It may make for some good headlines , but De Niro certainly does n't come on like a tycoon , talking about his company as not so much a business , more an ‘ artistic community ’ where people can freely exchange ideas . |
| 10 | But the upward pressure on prices will be dampened by the 70,000 repossessed properties and the large stock of inherited houses that will now come on to the market . |
| 11 | ‘ He is a very laid back , lazy , gross horse , ’ the trainer said , ‘ And I hope now that he can come on . |
| 12 | ‘ They 'll probably come on again right away , ’ Maggie said . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , if he works a bit harder he might come on … |
| 14 | The gayer , shorter girls would come on for a general dance to the Gavotte . |
| 15 | Jazz switched the television off and came outside with them and they kicked a tin-can round the field a bit and then sat on some dumped oil-drums and watched the lights come on along the front and smoked a cigarette and reflected on their fate . |
| 16 | This weak , depleted state does not come on early in an illness . |
| 17 | Fevers may come on from going into cold air whilst hot ; with trembling , aching bones and muscles ; a dazed state , they can not remember things . |
| 18 | Complaints may come on from suppressed emotions or vexations . |
| 19 | Dyspnoea ; they wake from sleep with a sense of suffocation , a sense of choking which can come on in the first sleep , a sense of strangulation when lying and especially when anything is around the neck ; neck is very sensitive to touch . |
| 20 | A headache may come on after the gravel stops coming out in the urine . |
| 21 | Complaints may come on from electric changes in the atmosphere . |
| 22 | Pains can come on suddenly and be slow to disappear . |
| 23 | Diarrhoea due to food sensitivity can come on suddenly and acutely , or it may start gradually and slowly get worse . |
| 24 | ‘ Why do n't you come on up with us ? ’ |
| 25 | Do come on , she thought , as the grey-haired occupant of the box showed no sign of reaching the end of her conversation . |
| 26 | If too great a volume is produced for the i.c. to handle it shuts down automatically but will come on again when correct conditions are restored . |
| 27 | But anyway , if it were working properly , the ‘ Cube 's ‘ clip ’ light would only come on when you were actually overdriving the input stage , which is not as helpful as the Trace Acoustic version , which lights up green and occasionally flashes red to tell you when you 've got the input level exactly right . |
| 28 | Attacks may come on suddenly with little warning . |
| 29 | At halftime , he 'd come on to the pitch and give the whole team extra-strong mints , rearrange the tactics , change our positions , tell us we were playing downhill in the second half , tell us that a six-goal deficit was nothing . |
| 30 | And I 'm sure Miinnehoma will come on for the race , ’ he said . |