Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [pers pn] come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nearest they came to securing the cushion of a two-goal lead came when Rush lobbed the ball into the path of Davenport , who failed to get sufficient power into a shot to beat Walton , who was still deputising for the injured Gunn . |
| 2 | But the nearest they came to scoring was in the forty third minute ; Neil Keller in the Rayners Lane goal saving brilliantly from a fifteen yard volley from Martin Shepherd . |
| 3 | The nearest I came to fishing was as number three in a racing four on the grubby River Tees , when I joined the Tees Amateur Rowing Club . |
| 4 | The more we come in contact with animals and observe their behaviour , the more we love them , for we see how great is their care for their young . |
| 5 | The closer she moves towards death , the more he comes to passionate life . |
| 6 | Jürgen Moltmann once said so memorably : ‘ The nearer we come to Christ , the nearer we come together . |
| 7 | The nearer we came to Halifax , we found the houses thicker , and the villages greater in every bottom ; and not only so , but the sides of the hills , which were very steep every way , were spread with houses , and that very thick ; for the land being divided into small enclosures , that is to say , from two acres to six or seven acres each seldom more ; every three or four pieces of land had a house belonging to it . |
| 8 | The closest I came to anything clinical was watching a nurse shave the chest of a Lebanese businessman , so that she could attach the electrodes required for an ECG — I held the kidney dish into which the used razor was deposited . |
| 9 | No , the closer we come to that terrible moment … no , Rabbi , I wo n't be able to endure ! ’ |
| 10 | The further we research into the intricacies of the human genes , the closer we come to the possibility of refashioning human biological existence . |
| 11 | The closer we come to the game the more we focus as a group , and the more people drop off the equation . |
| 12 | The closer he came to attaining power , the more , purely for presentational purposes , anti-Semitism had to be subordinated to or subsumed within other components of the Hitler image . |
| 13 | The closer she came to the centre of Steel City the more guards there were . |
| 14 | The closer she came to meeting Vitor d'Arcos again , the more her adrenalin surged and the more she wished there had been something to prevent her attendance . |