Example sentences of "[Wh pn] come [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In a market contrast to what had gone before in the Singles , it was some of the unsung members of the European side who came up with most of the points to secure the tie . |
| 2 | There was no sort of law against erm employing people without a certain amount of rest and erm that was employed , er that was occupied that office from first thing in the morning when the bus went out from five o'clock and erm he would , the depot clerk would go off round about dinner time , there 'd be his relief who came on at nine o'clock and worked with him until dinner time and he 'd carry on till five and then we had , what was called , the cashiers come on duty then , there was a cashier and erm a hand . |
| 3 | Vanners Silks is by far the oldest company , its history stretching back 250 years to the Huguenot weavers who came over to this country from France . |
| 4 | Once upon a time , there was a small team from Gloucester called Tredworth , who came back from financial ruin to play in the Provincial Cup Final at Twickenham . |
| 5 | No need for secrets , so Mrs Files telephoned her daughter straight away , then told Frank Grimwood who came by with four brace of partridge from yesterday 's let shoot ; who stopped Alec on the tractor with a load of silage behind ; who met Tom in the grainstore ; who found Mary in the estate office when he went in to fill out his time sheet ; who confided in the postman when he came with the afternoon mail ; who amazed Mrs May in Forester 's Cottage when he delivered her Freeman 's Catalogue and a postcard from her son holidaying in Pouket ; who stunned her husband when he came in from the saw mill . |
| 6 | The silence held for two or three minutes and disturbed Mrs Robinson , who came in with fresh candles and the welcome offer of port . |
| 7 | Indeed , many of the homes said that the fees from supplementary benefit were so adequate that the people who came in on that ticket were given some of the best accommodation in the establishment . |
| 8 | She 'd had bad times before she got the flat , but with the flat and the job she felt herself well off She worked from six in the morning to a quarter to nine , getting the offices clean and tidy for the staff who came in at nine o'clock , and for two hours in the evening , from six-thirty to eight-thirty . |
| 9 | I often wonder if the people who come up with these proposals have any experience in recruitment . |
| 10 | It 's interesting that if you have a machine wrapping biscuits at 50 a minute and it is increased to 70 a minute , the operators who have been doing it at 50 find it very difficult to adapt , but the new operators who come in at 70 cope with it easily . |
| 11 | Eh , I do n't know who comes up with these ideas , I do n't honest . |
| 12 | I have a person who comes in for two hours every morning , but … but she does just the very rough work . |
| 13 | Margaret 's Anita is a trained patisserie chef , who comes in for three days a week to delight people with her delicious home-baked brown bread and scrumptious deserts . |
| 14 | The project in question was Adam Adamant Lives , a less fantastic , if still fantasy-based , series about another time-traveller who comes out of suspended animation from 1902 into the ‘ Swinging London ’ world of 1965 . |