Example sentences of "[noun prp] come [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this occasion he had , after the expenditure of many millions , built a refinery in Newfoundland , and he telephoned me to ask whether I could persuade Winston Churchill to come to the grand opening . |
| 2 | When Therese came on the entire evening lifted into top gear . |
| 3 | Thus Barbarossa came from a noble family , with a background that suited him to his eventual imperial career . |
| 4 | It 's funny er when Richard came in the other day and said he 'd been he 'd been to the dentist and you said oh well they have n't been in touch with us yet . |
| 5 | At their first major encounter , Emperor Yazdegird came off the better . |
| 6 | The cities in Ancona came under the imperial governor . |
| 7 | The upkeep of such a house would require a substantial income , she thought to herself ; she remembered that Veronica came from a wealthy family . |
| 8 | ‘ There 's a chap called Summers came in the other day . |
| 9 | In his own attempt to ‘ map ’ the origins of life onto the individual psyche , Freud came to an unsettling conclusion . |
| 10 | Des O'Grady had the honour when he and Kyle came to the 6th . |
| 11 | Sadi Carnot came to the second law of thermodynamics from pondering on the efficiency of an abstract and idealized engine ; and Helmholtz came to the first from considering simple mechanical devices such as trip-hammers driven by water-wheels . |
| 12 | Make-up could work wonders , though , and she was just putting the finishing touches to her lipstick when Travis came through the connecting door . |
| 13 | Barratt came from an old mining family and indeed , had been captain at Wheal Friendship , on Dartmoor , where his father , for years , had been manager . |
| 14 | Gregory came from the same aristocratic milieu as Sidonius and his followers . |
| 15 | But neither of them saw Captain Meredith coming from the opposite direction on his way to visit Lawyer Loveitt , and he failed to see them as he crossed into Frog Lane seconds after they had left it . |
| 16 | Companies such as Caterham come under the second tier and have to comply with national approval rules based on EC legislation . |
| 17 | So Sue and Bert come in the other day and she I know . |
| 18 | The level flight attitude will be achieved as the Altimeter comes onto the required height , and speed onto the required figure . |
| 19 | Part of the confidence surrounding the 19 DX comes from the very fact that it is turbocharged . |
| 20 | When Shaw died in 1950 he was a very rich man — the net value of his estate was eventually assessed at around £6,250,000 in terms of today 's money ; and the closest Holroyd comes to a sustained narrative is in tracing the fate of his various bequests . |
| 21 | This holds even though much of the money for welfare programmes such as AFDC comes from the Federal exchequer ; the larger the average payment , above a Federally-prescribed minimum , the larger the proportion of it which has to be met from State revenues , so that generous State governments are taxing their own residents in order to support their generosity ( see Tresch , 1975 ) . |
| 22 | The information which appears on Skymaster comes from the same computers at Heathrow which churn out the printed stuff so you can guarantee that the data is accurate and changes reach you faster than they normally would on the paper system . |
| 23 | Nutty came to an agonised halt . |
| 24 | Sarah came through the first week of marriage with few hopes of real happiness , though she was pleased enough with her elevated circumstances . |
| 25 | Korda came from a broken home and it left him insecure . |
| 26 | Leonora Buckmaster came to the front doorway as the Daimler pulled up . |
| 27 | In war it was only the poor who were expected to die and so the death of Earl Patrick came as a great shock to everyone . |
| 28 | Jonquil came in every few days . |
| 29 | the set also includes Debussy 's famous orchestrations of the First and Third Gymnopèdies , two short pieces ( Les Pantins dansent and Chooses vues à droite et à gauche [ sans lunettes ] , the latter his only pieces for violin and piano ) and the reasonably well-known Scorate , whose last movement can be heard either as 22 minutes of timeless , hypnotic beauty or the nearest Satie came to a musical sleeping draught . |
| 30 | Bentley Drummle came from a rich family living in the country . |