Example sentences of "come a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | had come a bit loose |
| 2 | He said oh I 've come a bit too early have I ? |
| 3 | WHEN THE SIGNALS to cease battle had been exchanged , and there had come a respite in the noise , and the smoke was curling lazily into the blue where clouds flocked and billowed , the islanders fell back and took stock of their situation . |
| 4 | In the words of Zohreh Tabatabai , Chief of Public Services of the United Nations in New York ; ‘ If this had come a year ago , we would have said ‘ no way ’ . |
| 5 | For them Friday the 13th had come a day early . |
| 6 | ‘ Along with the dominance of a masculine value system in art and art history has often come a blindness to female existence , even when the reality of women 's roles is well documented by the art of a given place or period ’ . |
| 7 | With the Scottish interests had come a stake in Border TV , which Lonrho kept . |
| 8 | We made ball and roller bearings for the car trade , the car trade had come a slump and the car trade to this day does n't want one bearing or one detail for a car until it 's ready to put it on a car . |
| 9 | From France has come a striker , Jean-Pierre Papin , a former ‘ best European player ’ . |
| 10 | Viruses have come a heck of a long way since we last took an in-depth look at anti-virus software back in November 1990 . |
| 11 | MOTHER Teresa 's dream of setting up a refuge for London 's homeless has come a step nearer — thanks to the generosity of Daily Mirror readers . |
| 12 | If the 1930 agreement had taken effect fully , there could never have come a time when the freehold to the remainder of No. 263–265 would be left without a road frontage . |
| 13 | Lovers of freedom throughout the world looked to this vision with hope and it is with profound sadness that they see the vision momentarily dimmed , and with this dimming has come a confusion of purpose and a sense of despair that was never known before in America . |
| 14 | From behind the tee had come a cheer which changed into a gasp . |
| 15 | Dons president John Fashanu has suffered his own autumnus horribilis , and his recovery from a hip injury has n't come a moment too soon for manager Joe Kinnear . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've come a hell of a long way , you know . |
| 17 | How come a club of United 's stature can no longer compete in the transfer market , and are now overshadowed by humble Blackburn when it comes to buying players ? |
| 18 | With improvements in educational technologies , more detailed understanding of how behaviour is controlled and developed , and a greater focus on curriculum planning has come a flood of new opportunities for people with learning difficulties . |
| 19 | There were other reasons for insecurity , too : no matter how much material prosperity had come a family 's way , there was still every chance that illness or a premature death might send them all back down a snake at a much faster speed than they had been able to climb up a ladder . |
| 20 | With this effort to deploy support for the arts in New York has come a proliferation of arts alliances , organizations and advisory committee . |
| 21 | Though they have done well in Germany and Belgium ( they now own one-tenth of all the office space in Brussels ) , Swedish investors have come a cropper in London . |
| 22 | And he admitted this was n't the first time his feet had come a cropper . |
| 23 | I 've come a cropper over this before , bemoaning the appalling performance of a 386/40 until I noticed that the tiny turbo light was off and , instead of running at 40MHz , the machine was running at 8MHz ! |
| 24 | The share prices of Catalyst Communications and of Corton Beach , strictly on a temporary basis , dropped back ; these erstwhile giants of the OTC market seemed to have come a cropper . |
| 25 | YORK has come top in a survey to find the most cycle-friendly place in the country but the rest of the region has come a cropper . |
| 26 | Oxford again are a side with some scalps under their belts , Broughton Park , Solihull , Bury Hill — but you 've sometimes erm come a cropper against smaller sides have n't you ? |
| 27 | Once Deano/Whelan/Wallace had built up an understanding then the goals would have come a lot easier . |