Example sentences of "come [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose they could have come that way . ’ |
| 2 | If any stranger had come that way it was likely he would think he was following the black road to hell . |
| 3 | Few had come that way since the Deosil Gate had been one of the first to collapse in a shower of white-hot embers . |
| 4 | So why was it and how come that Madame was claiming that the opposite was true and that it was her father who was the person out of favour ? |
| 5 | In her hand she held the letter from England that had come that morning and Wilson knew what it contained : news of Miss Henrietta , of Mrs Surtees Cook , who was mortally ill with cancer of the womb . |
| 6 | Then he felt , vibrating along the ground , the steady tread of a man going away beyond the crest over which they had come that morning . |
| 7 | How come that shop had them and the other one did n't ? |
| 8 | Royston CAB has come some way towards solving the shelf space problem and the updating costs of holding more than one information system in a bureau . |
| 9 | See , he said , I told you you should n't have come this way . |
| 10 | The girl had come this way , she was sure . |
| 11 | She must have come this way often enough , she was a diligent churchgoer . ’ |
| 12 | The traffic that had caused the furrows a mile back could not have come this way . |
| 13 | ‘ It looks as if that car has come this way , ’ murmured Mary . |
| 14 | Follow the blue posts until the track meets an obvious forestry road , and as a reward for having come this way , a wooden seat . |
| 15 | But I met a man on the road to the other village — I 've pursued them over the mountain from Keswick and you know the road divides two ways — and he swore they had come this way . ’ |
| 16 | I had come this way a hundred times , always varying my route so as to avoid making more of a track than a rabbit might do . |
| 17 | It led through still more lofty halls and winding corridors quite big enough for a dragon ( and dragons had come this way once , it seemed ; there was a room lull of rotting harness , dragon-sized , and another room containing plate and chain mail big enough for elephants ) . |
| 18 | Nature before me has come this way , |
| 19 | So you have come this day from your little villages , your market towns , your cities , from mines and factories , or leaving the plough , to this city . |
| 20 | Yeah , it 's come this morning , |
| 21 | It had come half way up the bunk , and nearly as far as Willis 's blankets . |
| 22 | And how come civil servants have mobile phones in their cars ? |
| 23 | On Monday , more academics swam in Johnson 's travelling aquarium : Principal Campbell , Professor Ross and a Dr Gerard , who had ‘ come six miles from the country on purpose ’ . |
| 24 | If the BBC had been consistently loaded against us , and in Neil Kinnock 's favour , how come these misgivings about him as Prime Minister have shown up yet again in the result of this election ? |
| 25 | And the column has come three times , each time in the late afternoon . |
| 26 | ‘ We 've come three weeks early so that we can get in plenty of training , plus the three warm-up games . |
| 27 | When , when they 've been down , and they 've been back to school , they 've sent me a collections of drawings and nice little notes about it , and we 've come firm friends because first they look at me , on me as the pond woman , oh , they saw me on television getting my award , and erm they thought that was rather wonderful , and so we , we , we talk and now the , the first ones have quite grown up . |
| 28 | From his innovations have come many developments opening the way for similar independently minded choreographers . |
| 29 | I said I 've come all way from Llandudno to see what you 're doing . |
| 30 | Out have gone the autumnal shades , in have come bold contrasts of saturated reds and greens . |