Example sentences of "to come [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After we moved up permanently , they continued to come each Christmas for four or five years until one year there was silence . |
| 2 | Yes , so that became the the fire prevention suite , erm and erm still is the fire prevention suite , erm and is well used now again , almost bursting , I should think er with increasing staff and , and work which seems to come each year . |
| 3 | but , he actually lodged in Rothbury well that was fifteen miles to come each day |
| 4 | ‘ And to come little visit with us ? ’ |
| 5 | In Jane Austen , to come nearer home , the protagonists are not , it is true , titled , but they are privileged . |
| 6 | This was a city to get lost in , to come alive in , a city of immense contrasts , warmth and vitality . |
| 7 | Come dusk the place starts to come alive and the narrow streets behind the harbour , with it 's vast array of magnificent wood-built sailing cruisers , turn into a huge open air jamboree with everybody jostling , shopping , eating , drinking and generally having a good time . |
| 8 | And then the picture itself seemed to come alive . ’ |
| 9 | At the earliest stage it should be made to come alive for young people and teachers in the processes of education . |
| 10 | The table creaked and seemed to come alive , and the taps followed . |
| 11 | She wanted to come alive again and fall in love again ; but that was not possible , for no one but Rob MacDonald would do — and Rob was gone . |
| 12 | Only when she was undertaking solo engagements did she appear to come alive . |
| 13 | His riveting address , in which he lucidly , brilliantly demolished the moral authority of the outgoing US regime and urged his audience of ‘ young Americans ’ to come alive , could have been ( and probably was ) delivered at any point during the campaign . |
| 14 | Her long blonde hair seemed to come alive in the sunlight which gave it golden highlights . |
| 15 | The brand new year round EURO DISNEY Resort is scheduled to come alive on 12th April 1992 just across the Channel in France , 20 miles east of Paris . |
| 16 | At once that part of the map seemed to come alive ; was overlaid with a fine web of brilliant gold , the nodes of which sparkled in the overhead light . |
| 17 | John 's face seemed to come alive and his spirit escaped the prison of the photograph releasing brief images of happy times ; John dancing along the pavement , John tilting his head back to exhale smoke from a cigarette , John talking to a cuddly toy in a supermarket and making me laugh . |
| 18 | The fading light gave way in a matter of seconds to a moist , velvet blackness , as if a curtain had been drawn swiftly across the sky , and the shadows beyond the glow of the hurricane lamps immediately began to come alive with the shrill vibrations of the jungle night . |
| 19 | Inert , mute , untouchable , she seemed uncanny and prodigious to Rosa , who wanted her to protest the hectic fury all around her , to come alive and give a sign , as , below her , the volunteers hauling the lumbering shrine on their backs on poles criss-crossed and tethered grew more obstreperous and howled and the crowd pressed up and obstructed their laborious way ahead ; after three turns around the piazza they at last reached the platform in the middle , only a little distance from the Duomo they had left , and the sweat-streaked bearers put down the skewed tower on which the Madonna stood , and tumbled to their knees . |
| 20 | The threw back the bedclothes , shed her clinging nightgown and stood under a cool shower until she began to come alive . |
| 21 | as if in response , Merrill 's own face seemed to come alive , and she felt her mouth answer that smile . |
| 22 | At the last moment Wynne-Jones seemed to come alive . |
| 23 | Well just that the words go down on paper , they seem to come alive within his imagination and around the room . |
| 24 | His head came down again , and suddenly , as her whole body started to come alive , Leith found she was having to fight herself as well as him . |
| 25 | His skin , combined with the slippery texture of the soap , seemed to come alive under her hands . |
| 26 | obviously we 've got to work together on all , are you listening to me ? , on all the different parts of the body , you want them all to come alive , okay , so , this week as I say we 're gon na concentrate on sound , sound , sound , sound , you 've got to play on sound that is the painting , I mean the , the pictures do you , alright that 's fine , at the same does n't matter we 've still got to work on different things , yeah , okay ? , erm , so , as I say we 're going to make a sound machine in different groups , now to give you an example , what I what you to do is be , I 'm going to give you a situation , give , choose a profession , okay , let's say we are in hospital , now I want you each and everyone of you in this group think of the situation , think of a sound that one might hear in a hospital , everyone to themselves just think of a sound , could be a patient screaming , it could be a heart machine , it could be , er exactly , could be that , could be absolutely anything , it could sirens , it could be anything , okay , for everyone I want you to have the sound in your head okay , everyone 's got a sound in their head ? |
| 27 | she had our blue suite , such as it was , but she was going to come right flat on her back got his bedroom ready , for Ian all that , cos they do . |
| 28 | They arranged to come that way again next Sunday and then turned their horses eastwards for the long ride home . |
| 29 | A few years ago I saw a couple of Eastenders stars come in erm and Ross whatever his name forget his name there were two young girls standing in front of me scraping pennies out of their purse to get in though we loved that character they wanted to come that night we 've got to get girls like that youngsters like that interested to come on other nights and then come again that 's what needs doing . . |
| 30 | Louise , who worked as a nurse , was not able to come that afternoon , she remembered . |