Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] come [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer seems to lie in facing up to the fact that one particular cycle or era has finally come to a close and therefore both personally and professionally it would be wiser to channel your energies into something new . |
| 2 | The bouncy Miss Routledge , whose run in Bennett 's Talking Heads has just come to a close , explained : ‘ Alan just selects someone , writes the piece and posts it through the letterbox . |
| 3 | After a hundred years of ambling forward in happy confusion , the time has surely come for a new broom or brooms to sweep clean . |
| 4 | The career that looked so promising in 1974 has evidently come to a premature end . |
| 5 | ‘ You 've obviously come from a happy , loving family , ’ said Wendy . |
| 6 | I had already come across a congratulatory account of this transformation in Jules Verne . |
| 7 | Government spending had already been reviewed and cut substantially , but the time had now come for a great public gesture ; this was supplied by the appointment of the Geddes Committee , a typical Lloyd George manoeuvre using businessmen instead of MPs or ministers . |
| 8 | Her life had simply come to a full stop . |
| 9 | He said he had never come across a clearer , more perfect case , with so many vital details so well remembered . |
| 10 | It 's probably come off a cold , it 's er , there there 's a tube in there , and the other side . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's probably come at a bad time , ’ said Pool 's longest serving player . |
| 12 | another revolution I mean that the fight that none , none of these things have really come to a full success , yeah , so nobody looks at them and says well we need no more revolutions because they 'll all work . |
| 13 | Well it 's now come under a general invited round to us all |