Example sentences of "[vb past] come [prep] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another burst of applause announced the arrival of the Prince of Orange , who had come with a handful of staff officers . |
| 2 | There was no sign of Haines , no one had come with a list of grievances , and Harold was able to give some of the assurances that I had urged upon him before the first dinner . |
| 3 | In particular , it appears there was a specific leader at Colossae who had come to a position of authority . |
| 4 | We were n't doing the hours that I 'd agreed to do , and Silvia and I had come to a sort of arrangement … ’ |
| 5 | It had been given particular poetic stimulation a few months earlier when , at 15 , and musing in a second-hand bookshop in the city , he had come across a book of poetry by the Spanish poet , Federico Garçia Lorca , a book he has carried with him ever since , as Manzano records . |
| 6 | Regarding Massawa as an essential channel for aid to northern Ethiopia , Western government representatives at the UN on April 24 called for a ceasefire around the port , which had come under a series of government bombing attacks [ ibid . ] . |
| 7 | He had come as a student of farming to this dairy , thinking he would be here only a short time . |
| 8 | If the invitation had come as a result of anxious discussion with Jenny about Cassie 's state of mind , and she rather thought that it had , Ben showed no sign of it . |
| 9 | The Department of Trade and Industry , which is responsible for firework safety , said yesterday that the decision to examine how casualty figures were collated had come as a result of a meeting with local authorities . |
| 10 | But if the two of them had come by a windfall of some sort , she was n't going to ask questions about it . |
| 11 | The helmsboy then engaged full ahead , performed two pirouettes , and thundered back the way he had come in a cloud of blue exhaust smoke and coloured speech . |
| 12 | This time he had come within a stone of beating the Han . |
| 13 | Nutty realised afterwards that they had come within a hairs-breadth of total disaster . |
| 14 | Lotus had another go at four-wheel drive the following year , this time with gas turbine power The dramatically wedged-shaped 56B was a development of the car that had come within a whisker of tinning the 1968 Indy 500 . |