Example sentences of "[coord] come [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From our point of view we 're not in the position and it would be totally wrong of us actually to try in public to deal with those or to come to a specific conclusion about any particular proposal . |
| 2 | He defended himself vigorously in a series of letters , protesting — in this case to the journalist William Archer — that ‘ The very last charges I expected them to bring against a book concerned merely with the doom of hereditary temperament & unsuitable mating in marriage were that it was an attack on marriage in general , that it was immoral , & that characters who recant their opinions & come to a sad end were puppets invented to express my personal views in their talk . ’ |
| 3 | Their seeds had remained dormant underground for years or come from a few surviving specimens . |
| 4 | I learnt that people think it is very important to have money and to come from a good family . |
| 5 | There was the sound of crunching metal as it hit one of the trees a glancing blow and came to a rocking halt . |
| 6 | I crossed wet ground and came to a long , open piece of sand , then went on to a place where the trees had branches that were thick and close to the sand . |
| 7 | She dug in her heels and came to a grinding halt . |
| 8 | I nodded , told Emil I 'd be back , and followed Zak down the Great Hall and round a comer or two and came to a buzzing gathering of people in an area like an airport departure lounge . |
| 9 | But at that moment their creaking conveyance gave a sudden fearsome jerk and came to a dead stop . |
| 10 | And came to a dead stop . |
| 11 | The taxi swerved out of the Champs Elysées , down the Avenue George-V and came to a sudden halt on the corner . |
| 12 | A few of the rearmost fled down the river valley towards Whitton , and made good their escape , but most stood their ground as soon as the hurtling , heaving mass lost impetus and came to a seething stay . |
| 13 | At corner Inn the ostlers were the only visible representatives , and the doors were still closed ; but at the village a number of the natives were astir , and came to a little stone pier where a boat 's crew were exchanging for the coin of the realm the sparkling treasure netted in the night season , and many of the lodgers would have the freshest of fresh herrings waiting them for breakfast . |
| 14 | She walked on and came to a one-story building surrounded by a cordon of wire fencing . |
| 15 | The others veered round a corner and came to a large field . |
| 16 | They went up a long hill and came to an imposing arched entrance . |
| 17 | Erika and Karl got out of the warmth of the car into a crystalline coldness , walked up an avenue lined with bare trees and came to an enclosed garden . |
| 18 | As all the alarming possibilities ran through her head , she gave a loud gulp and came to an abrupt halt . |
| 19 | The car ahead of them squealed to a halt , crashed backwards across the road into a stone wall , and came to an abrupt stop . |
| 20 | She carried the glass back to the sitting-room , and came to an abrupt stop when she saw Luke standing by the window , reading the paper , which she 'd left open at the horoscopes . |
| 21 | ‘ There were only about 15 varieties available then , but I did some research and came across an American monograph written before the Second World War that listed 250 . |
| 22 | Ownership links between ITV and radio were often indirect and came through a third party , including newspaper groups . |
| 23 | The increase , to 109,373 from 101,107 last October , was the highest monthly rise since April and came as a welcome boost to the struggling industry . |
| 24 | They rounded a spur and came upon a small encampment — three or four rude tents , with matting walls and black roofs made from goats ' hair . |
| 25 | Last year he cracked in the mountains and came in a disappointed seventh . |
| 26 | If managers say that they gain their vision and their pragmatic skill informally and from diverse sources , if they see their own development as something which took many years and came from a wide range of contexts , it is unlikely that a short-term substitute can be found which will fit into either the narrow limits of brief in-service training courses , year-long secondments or part-time study in higher education . |
| 27 | They shared a common concern to explain the events that had changed the lives of themselves and their families , and came from an intellectual tradition that stressed causes and the analysis of social events at the macro level . |
| 28 | Loch Torridon is directly ahead and the road forks before reaching it , the through road continuing along the south shore and another branching along the north side and coming to a dead end at Diabaig after nine miles . |
| 29 | It took Quiss longer than he had expected to get to the castle kitchens ; they 'd changed some of the corridors and stairways en route from the games room to the lower levels , and Quiss , taking what he thought was the usual way , had found himself making an unexpected left turn and coming to a windy , deserted , echoing chamber which looked out over the white landscape to the tall wooden towers of the slate mines . |
| 30 | Then he had a roll on the lawn before charging at her and coming to a full stop , big feet outsplayed , head down , ready to play . |