Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] comes [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He said : ‘ Never a week goes by but you get something you have never faced before , or something comes in a fashion you have not seen before , so there are plenty of challenges . ’
2 It was an extraordinary development in an extraordinary saga and striker Gary Bull said : ‘ This has taken us all by surprise , although nothing comes as a shock at Barnet anymore .
3 Yes in the sense that although he comes from a peasant background originally , it 's a rich peasant background and he himself had er a reasonable education and subsequently erm built on the education that he was given becoming in part self-taught .
4 In very high winds it is usually better to deliberately let the glider swing into wind so that it comes to a stop facing directly into wind .
5 Boulestin 's writing still seems so fresh and original that it comes as a shock to realize that these happenings occurred over forty years ago , and that his first cookery book Simple French Cooking for English Homes appeared in 1923 .
6 The palazzo looks so much like a 1950s cinema ( or is it a small-town railway station ? ) , with its curves and ornate super-structure , that it comes as a surprise to learn that it is seventeenth-century .
7 No , I mean that it comes as a surprise when you first experience it , and then after that you ca n't change the course of events .
8 Now an enzyme is more than what comes with a pack of washing powder .
9 if somebody comes as a resident to one of the developments that you now presently run are they there normally for years or for months ?
10 Satisfied , she retraces her steps until she comes to a Ladies ' cloakroom .
11 She takes the lift to the seventh floor and walks along a carpeted corridor until she comes to a room whose door is slightly ajar .
12 If she comes from a family where she felt undermined by her own mother the effect upon her is compounded .
13 And now the former Champion Hurdler , trained by Toby Balding ( above ) , is almost certain to make a quick reappearance in the Racecall Hurdle at Ascot on Friday , provided he comes through a gallop tomorrow morning .
14 It is the first occasion that Basquiat 's art will have been studied by an American institution and it comes at a time when David Ross , who replaced Thomas Armstrong as the Whitney 's director in bitter circumstances nearly two years ago , is under considerable pressure to ignite a new and visionary exhibition programme at the museum ( see The Art Newspaper No.6 , March 1991 , p.5 ) .
15 Spend all your life hanging around on the edge of the scrum and it comes as a bit of a shock to get a pair of fingers up your nostrils .
16 And Ros was just saying I mean sh on that , on that Friday she 's due to be in work on that Friday night and it comes on a day she 'll paid time off aspect .
17 Written by Kris Jamsa , it promises to reveal all his trade secrets and shortcuts and to have you recording , playing back , editing and printing macros ‘ faster than you ever thought possible ’ … and it comes with a disk filled with ready to use macros for beginners ( yes but will they understand the book ? ) as well as high performance macros for WordPerfect power users .
18 It 's chip resistant , it 's easy to apply and it comes in a choice of twelve brilliant shades .
19 That 's right , yes and actually I 'll digress to tell you ssh that erm this poem is published in a book by Ted Hughes a book called Poetry in the Making and it comes from a chapter called Capturing Animals .
20 ‘ We have made it our duty to find out as much as we can about Natasha , so that if it comes to a point where we want to adopt her , we will have the documentation ready . ’
21 ‘ We judge our support on the basis of the MPs we talk to , lists that are drawn up , early day motions that are signed , ’ says Robertson , who believes he can count on the public support of maybe seventy Conservative MPs if it comes to a confrontation with John Major .
22 And Test winger Martin Offiah will also be back after a two-match absence if he comes through a fitness test on his damaged hamstring this morning .
23 if he comes on a Thursday .
24 hughesy is renowned as a ‘ hard man ’ although this appears to be a one way thing — he does nt mind dishing it out but if anyone comes within a foot of him he crashes to the turf , usually clutching his face and rolling around frantically in an attempt to get a fellow professional booked/sent off .
25 And my friend is quite human , but he comes from a world very far away .
26 Whether this is the result of oppressive criticism by his school-teachers or family , or whether it comes from a reaction to the finer-than-fine scholarship visible in some branches of Judaism ( which counts letters and finds significance in the smallest linguistic minutiae ) , is not certain .
27 The FCO is waiting , it says , for Ratliff to clarify his plans before it comes to a decision .
28 The score indicates how far the ball bounces forward before it comes to a halt .
29 Such an assumption is strong enough that when one comes across a response that is apparently irrelevant ( as ( ii ) overtly appears to be ) , an inference is triggered that would preserve the assumption of relevance .
30 The same holds true when it comes to a consideration of the reasons for the individual grants made by the Romans .
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