Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adv] come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two eyes serve a movement that now and again now and now and now sets neat prints into the snow between trees and warily allaying shadows shadow lies by a stump in a hollow of a body that is bold to come across clearings , an eye , a widening , deepening greenness brilliantly concentratedly coming about its own business till with a sudden sharp hot stink of fox , it enters the dark hole of the head . |
| 2 | For example , fraud and forgery usually only come to light when an organisation discovers the offender . |
| 3 | His relationship with the motor industry probably really came to the attention of the public in 1967 when he entered the world of rally driving in a self-prepared Mini Cooper S. The next year , in a Ford Escort 1600 , he took his first Scottish Championship title . |
| 4 | The patient described here took an overdose not long after her marriage somewhat unexpectedly came to an end . |
| 5 | But profound changes in attitude scarcely ever come through reading . |
| 6 | Though not in poetry , whose influence now chiefly came from America and Canada . |
| 7 | C.D.C. means that initiative not only comes from the top but from the bottom up . |
| 8 | Recognising that security really only comes from within , people need to recognise and appreciate those qualities that will help them to face an uncertain future . |
| 9 | Her first impulse was to run away , to run blindly anywhere , as fast as she could go , because the cry quite certainly came from the direction in which the dilapidated signpost was pointing — and that signpost pointed to DANGER . |
| 10 | The reductivist enterprise thus inevitably comes to grief , and it is not altogether surprising that it does . |
| 11 | But wordings which did not take the shape of a request also soon came to be accepted . |
| 12 | In this , of the great poet-critics of the past the one he most nearly resembles is Dryden , whose criticism virtually always comes before us as the preface to a volume of original imaginative writing — including translations which , in this too like Pound , Dryden considers no less ‘ original ’ than poems he has made up for himself . |
| 13 | The child or young person very seldom comes to the social worker or agency to state a case for social work intervention in his or her affairs . |
| 14 | Headline of the week so far comes from Reuter , which says MICROSOFT SHIPS WIDOWS IN JAPANESE , but the truth is that Microsoft Corp said the Japanese-language edition of the Windows operating system version 3.1 is now being shipped , adding that it is the first retail version for personal computers to be introduced in Japan , and that 24 of the OEM customers supporting Windows in Japan are offering it pre-installed and preconfigured on their machines as part of Microsoft 's Windows Ready-to-Run programme ; Microsoft is also set with Windows 3.1 in Korean and Chinese . |
| 15 | Her large supporting cast never really comes to life , and she allows too many strangely unfocused interruptions to her narrative flow . |
| 16 | Your Sunday paper very likely came in sections , some of which you were still reading the following week . |
| 17 | Supplies of brass almost certainly came from the Bristol Brass Company and , as Fromebridge is situated on what was the main turnpike road to Bristol , this makes sense . |
| 18 | c Mahogany almost always comes from tropical forests rather than plantations . |
| 19 | Some who came at the outset no longer come to events , but others have joined since . |
| 20 | Life too never came from inorganic matter , and must have reached the Earth from elsewhere . |
| 21 | Though this is an inevitable event and one we all know we must expect , the reality almost always comes as a shock . |
| 22 | The initiative for a project very often comes from the funding agency , which adopts a ‘ proactive ’ stance ( in the jargon ) , setting the agenda , administering a steering committee and ensuring that the project is running towards the desired end . |
| 23 | Used as tracking dogs and guide dogs for the blind , the Rottweiler 's versatility and willingness to please his master once again came to his rescue . |
| 24 | His financial transactions extended throughout the eastern counties , and although the bulk of his fortune almost certainly came from moneylending , his six houses in King 's Lynn and the quay attached to his own stone house in Norwich suggest that he also had interests in trade . |
| 25 | The French no longer come over us , they fly far behind their front . ’ |
| 26 | Value no longer comes from capital or the worker ( as in neo-classical or marxist economics ) but from the system that puts everything together . |