Example sentences of "[pers pn] come [adv prt] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having a bit of a rest in the winter , I was able to relax a little bit more , so I think I came over a lot fresher than I normally do for the start of the season . |
| 2 | The night shift volunteer was standing next to me getting ready to come on to the phones and as I came off a call he started to chat to me . |
| 3 | Two of them came round a while ago and they said , ‘ Our pigeon 's on your roof , miss , can we go up your house and get it down through your loft ? ’ |
| 4 | But she almost turned and fled as she came round a corner and found herself face to face with Guido . |
| 5 | Yes we used to go to see her , and she came up a couple of times . |
| 6 | But when she heard her children were being maltreated she came back a year later and fought to have them returned to her . |
| 7 | She came back a week or so later to Farnham , plastered , in the literal sense , and indomitable . |
| 8 | They were just there , suddenly , as we came over a hill and saw a river below us . |
| 9 | And as I as I told you before , we was on the main concourse , heard the glass smashed , we come down a stairwell on , come round the back , saw the two , or saw two persons in the back garden , asked them what they were doing buy which time the the curtain went up in smoke , well up in flames . |
| 10 | We did n't like them coming in the police station , they used to come into our parade room where our men were having food , and you can imagine them coming in a bit lousy and so on . |
| 11 | I knew that she would be feeling timid , and it was rather a climb in any case : comforting for her to come up a flight of steps passing a trellis of gloriously flowering wistaria . |
| 12 | As they came round a bend they met a lorry overtaking a tractor . |
| 13 | ‘ Look around you , ’ Scathach hissed suddenly as they came round a curve in the river , riding slowly . |
| 14 | ‘ Look around you , ’ Scathach hissed suddenly as they came round a curve in the river , riding slowly . |
| 15 | The tailpieces look like they came off an Eko electric from the '60s , and they 've added squiggly wire designs that echo the famous ‘ R ’ tailpiece — from fifty feet , anyway . |
| 16 | When they came back an hour and a quarter later , the meal seemed scarcely begun . |
| 17 | People who try to hurt him usually find they come off a lot worse than he does . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ He came round a bit and said firmly : ‘ I hulled away my swad . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ He came around a bit to Michael but I do n't believe he ever liked him . |
| 20 | And then he came over a rise and saw the lake below . |
| 21 | He came back a couple of weeks ago and this time approached me rather than Rex . |
| 22 | He came back a day or two later and they told him it definitely had been available before nineteen thirty-nine . ’ |
| 23 | He came back an hour later , looking as smug as a cat who 'd stolen the cream . |
| 24 | It came over a treat on the radio transmitter when I played it back … ’ |
| 25 | I think it came out a bit more expensive that order , still if it 's what you want you 've got to have it have n't you ? |
| 26 | And just let it come out a bit more . |
| 27 | Well see if it comes up a bit . |
| 28 | With Mark and Babur it comes up a lot . |
| 29 | I think that 's why it comes out a bit boring . |
| 30 | He comes on a bit slow , sometimes , and the old turbine up top does n't always chug away like a Lamborghini , but he gets there , he gets there . |