Example sentences of "[vb past] come [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SAFETY measures at a Darlington car park failed to come up to standard after tests , it has been revealed . |
| 2 | SAFETY measures at a Darlington car park failed to come up to standard after vital tests , it has been revealed . |
| 3 | If he failed to come up with explanations to put everything right then , and then only , would he have to face the consequences himself , for it was clear now that she would have to leave — disengage herself from him , as Marc had so succinctly put it — but she had given her word and she would wait until the whole matter could be discussed openly . |
| 4 | Lack of time has been cited as a possible reason why a new set of criteria put before the world governing body 's council in Tokyo last year failed to come up for discussion . |
| 5 | ‘ I promised to come back before nightfall . |
| 6 | Over a period of ten days I spent a lot of energy and seemed to come through with colours flying . |
| 7 | ‘ Everything seemed to come out of tins — except the boiled chicken , they could hardly tin that . ’ |
| 8 | You came came up by train ? |
| 9 | In one of the most touching passages , he recalled coming up to America on his emigrant ship in 1955 , his father and brother and he standing by the rail , feeling this sense of opportunity , this relief that the bad times were over , that a new world was out there waiting to be conquered . |
| 10 | some of them forgot to come back at night . |
| 11 | They are pictured with the regional field salesmen who just happened to come in on photo day ! |
| 12 | BULL CHIEF ORDERED TO COME UP WITH A PLAN TO SURVIVE WITHOUT STATE SUBSIDY … |
| 13 | BULL CHIEF ORDERED TO COME UP WITH A PLAN TO SURVIVE WITHOUT STATE SUBSIDY … |
| 14 | It never stopped raining , and the plague began to come back into London . |
| 15 | Slowly she began to come back to reality , and realise that she had been entirely at his mercy . |
| 16 | Outside their refuge the rain began to come down in earnest . |
| 17 | However , reports of severe damage and high casualty figures began to come in from communities situated closer to the ‘ quake 's epicentre , and they learned that the emergency services were bringing many of the most badly injured victims in to the capital . |
| 18 | Erm they began the union just before I left Bellany and of course it was cried down and erm they had meetings and the lot , and then all the miners were on strike at the time , and er my father and brother were both miners and er my brother was very friendly with Mr and Mr next door and er anyway er we decided to come out on strike for Bellany 's union and of course erm they , the , one , I think it was Mr said Joey he said er did you know we 're out on strike here and my brother said it seemed to be catching does n't it he did n't say he could n't say I worked there you see but erm it , it caused an upset but still up to a point the unions were good because we 're all badly underpaid for what we did , and the hours we worked they would n't tolerate it nowadays , but erm I forget er I joined the union and if you did n't you were a blackleg you know you , they wanted you to join the union from then I 've been in the union all , until I finished work but erm they , they got us our rises and er as I say the , the money was n't er very good and then the union did fight for the rises and they 'd got to pay it or lose all the er employees but erm I was , I was satisfied with without it , I 've been satisfied with my life you know I 've had , there 's been humorous there 's been sad but erm I 'm still able to get around and that 's the main thing . |
| 19 | Maybe that very quickly he started coming up with lyrics and that he and I got on well right from the off , Well , not quite from the off . |
| 20 | It was around this time that Nick Kent started coming down to rehearsals at Riverside . |
| 21 | Then all of a sudden these strange people started coming out of record companies who were involved in the video end of it and deciding this is what we should do with that song and sort of you know these were songs that we had planned and recorded and and all of a sudden these people were changing them . |
| 22 | He even offered to come over in person to explain them . |
| 23 | When all this has been said , it is still very difficult to see how the Divisional Court in R. v. LTE ex parte GLC managed to come down in favour of the GLC in the face of the unanimous decision of the Law Lords . |
| 24 | ‘ Do you remember that old lady who kept coming in for Roald Dahl , saying he was a woman ? ’ sobbed Denise . |
| 25 | The pepper pot analogy kept coming back to Raymond Cusick as he began sketching his ideas down onto paper . |
| 26 | He still liked to come down for meals but often could n't last out and would leave his food and return . |
| 27 | And er on the other hand you can get in your car and you can get down to suddenly find they 've got the the road up or E G as we did coming down to York today there 's driving his his er surface lifter down the road and and er you 're stuck in a traffic jam for a wee while er |
| 28 | So I thought I 'd better get some petrol in case Mr Marius Steen did come up to town over the weekend . |
| 29 | Could I just come in there and I do know an undertaker and this subject did come up in conversation . |
| 30 | If he did come back to life , he was in real problems with the bank . |