Example sentences of "[pron] come [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | . Orienting myself through a large cast of characters , several long flashbacks , and a variety of thrilling events in New York and Jamaica , I came across occasional reminders of the novel … |
| 2 | Oxford led me back to Nottingham : whilst at St Antony 's I came across some pamphlets published by Spokesman — the imprint of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation Ltd , where I have spent nine of the last twelve years . |
| 3 | In the course of work on the Mesozoic rocks of the High Atlas mountains of Morocco , I came across some deposits in the Upper Jurassic near Imouzzer-des-Ida-ou-Tanane which I could only interpret as having resulted from the effect of storms on lagoonal sediments ( plates 4.5 and 4.6 ) . |
| 4 | So I came across these things you see when we were first married because I used to write out all Hector 's bills for him , by hand before we had a typewriter |
| 5 | but erm then became , we got round to the erm question of getting the children into similar schools to the ones that they 'd been in and erm I came into this , in fact I came into all sorts of things erm well by accident then I suppose anyway not for any other reason but erm Mr erm who was the Secretary for Education , he had a Personal Assistant a chap named erm erm he was a very likeable chap erm and er a rather ec bit of an eccentric really because erm he 'd been erm , he 'd trained as a doctor and erm he 'd left the course before completing it . |
| 6 | I came to two pounds difference about something |
| 7 | You chose very well , I used to get really nervous when I came to Chinese restaurants , I never knew what to choose . |
| 8 | If you care to try building that newsletter with PagePlus , however , you might see why I came to those conclusions . |
| 9 | Later , I came to more trees with many different fruits . |
| 10 | Going down several inches I came upon some links of chain . |
| 11 | I assure you that in my professional capacity I come across many jurors who are both indigenous Britons , and quite advanced in years , who do not fit into the ‘ long tradition of honesty and fair-mindedness ’ . |
| 12 | We are quite enjoying the Weekly Telegraph , but I have to remind myself , when I come across possible cuttings , that you have probably seen them already . |
| 13 | Quite often while restoring antique pieces , I come across filled-in mortises or misplaced detail — evidence that they too had ruined mornings . |
| 14 | that 's why I come to two pounds separate er |
| 15 | Before I come to those passages , it is convenient to refer to such earlier authority as there is . |
| 16 | In so far as this decision approves a requirement made under section 7(4) to provide a specimen of blood simpliciter , without making any reference to the alternative of urine , it has been effectively overruled by later cases and I shall defer further consideration of it until I come to those cases . |
| 17 | On Wednesdays or Saturdays you got two hours ( other days it was only thirty minutes ) so obviously everyone came on those days . |
| 18 | There might be a third person wiser than either who is living happily and fruitfully in Bali , and remembers that both of them came with unrealistic expectations . |
| 19 | This stereo assault on them came from two men in late middle age , bizarrely costumed in matching Victorian evening dress . |
| 20 | You have to remember that some of them came from remote parts of Scotland , and the stores catered for them . |
| 21 | The generation of 1898 redressed in literature the balance that had been upset in the economic development of Spain : with some exaggeration the rediscovery of the desolate attractions of Castile by poets and essayists , many of whom came from peripheral regions , can be seen as a repentant gesture to the centre , devastated for the greater glory of Spain . |
| 22 | It does seem though , that nothing came of these leases , and during 1749 upon request by Sir William Fleming , one John Lawson ( a Quaker ) sent up Joseph Vipone to see the mines at Coniston and for this Lawson paid him 12s. plus 4s. for a horse for four days . |
| 23 | The ES servers double the capacity of the previous top-end MIServer which came with 12 CPUs . |
| 24 | Smith was in fine bludgeoning form , but Gower showed restraint , collecting two twos and 25 singles in his 29 , which came off 52 deliveries . |
| 25 | The agreement , which came after five hours of talks , established ceilings for NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries which restricted each side to 20,000 tanks , 20,000 artillery pieces and 30,000 fighting vehicles . |
| 26 | It was Birmingham 's first win in 8 matches ; a scrappy game won by a scrappy goal , which came after 29 minutes . |
| 27 | They still had some close escapes , the most important of which came after 49 minutes when midfielder Michael Thomas beat the keeper with his cross-shot only to see the ball come off the foot of a defender on the line . |
| 28 | Its berries glistened red under the burnish of the breeze , which came in uneasy gusts from the south and east . |
| 29 | If one reads the union press ; if one follows case histories of individual factories , one obtains the impression of a general intensification of the work process , which came in different ways and used different methods : reduction in labour-time on a particular machine operation ; supervision of an increased number of machines ; increased assembly line speeds ; spread of incentive payments systems ; increase in heavy and onerous work loads . |
| 30 | C. All these factories were using wool , most of which came from other parts of Britain . |