Example sentences of "of [pos pn] [noun] come [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ah , but that 's where the other part of my plan comes in . |
| 2 | I loved it : when nearly every one of my friends came round , all they wanted to play was Super Wonder Boy . |
| 3 | When I did Beyond The Fringe , I was five foot two and the rest of them were all six foot , and a lot of my comedy came out of me being small . |
| 4 | I discussed the format of the diet with various callers and then one of my members came in to the shop . |
| 5 | When she visited the hostels and goodwill centres or was out on the soup run distributing food and blankets to the homeless on the streets of London , the caring side of her nature came fully into play : " I think something of my mother came back into me . " |
| 6 | I can rely on one of my neighbours to come in once a week to check on things and feed the fish , but he is not a fishkeeper and I 'd like to make things as easy for him as possible . |
| 7 | Neither of my couriers came back . ’ |
| 8 | Many of my envelopes came back ‘ Return to Sender ’ , and it was clear that most members had died or were very elderly . |
| 9 | Most of the bureau do n't supply order forms — most of their work comes in on spec — and so it is very much up to the customer to specify what is required . |
| 10 | They were afraid of their shite to come out of the towns . |
| 11 | And if they get very famished and very desperate and enough of their mates come out to join them , then how can Sir Robert Peel and his Tories fail to listen when you tell him it 's all because of the Corn Laws ? |
| 12 | It is however possible for one of their number to come back the next day and give the decision , the findings of fact and the reasons of the court , considered at rather more leisure than sometimes time will permit . |
| 13 | Two czarist officers , bulky in their comic-opera uniforms , solemnly played Russian roulette , each downing a drink every time the firing pin of their revolver came down on an empty chamber . |
| 14 | Most of them had few or no sexual relationships before the father of their baby came along . |
| 15 | It would be a waste of their time to come down here , because the decisions will not be taken here , but in Brussels . |
| 16 | Two of their representatives came along , obviously from the KGB . |
| 17 | He walks along the top of ancient city walls , passing secretly among the rooftops , through a world of slates and television aerials and caged birds at dormer windows ; emerges upon high places where the whole city — roofs , towers , domes , and lives — is gathered at his feet , and the immense acreage of its noise comes up to him like the murmur of the sea . |
| 18 | One of its sons came out and tried to help them inside . |
| 19 | Jason was jealous of her ability to come up with consistently good ideas and saw her as a threat to his career . |
| 20 | ‘ She even took this awful villa , it was offered , it was available ; and when I saw that she was firm about not letting any of her friends come out to stay with her , I decided to stay myself . |
| 21 | I had almost reached the kitchen doorway when I heard the furious sounds of her footsteps coming back towards me again . |
| 22 | The author was Mary Shelley , wife of the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley , but very little of her life comes back to memory . |
| 23 | That 's probably a bit of her brains coming through . |
| 24 | Then one of her aides came along and must have thought from the name Adams that I was a nationalist . |
| 25 | The full force of her loss came in upon her now , and she gave a shout of anguish . |
| 26 | ‘ One of her assistants comes in early each morning to begin the preparations for breakfast . |
| 27 | But Pappy , who was always so willing to engage with her for hours and talk about school work or play chess , only patted her on the shoulder and fobbed her off with platitudes when the question of her mother came up . |
| 28 | ‘ Perhaps one of her patients came back to give her a taste of her own vicious medicine , ’ Eloise snapped . |
| 29 | and I says then we 'll have to come in the back and all them dishes standing there and , and that 's one thing John hates , if any of his ones come up |
| 30 | When I returned to the laibon 's village with the paperwork , he was looking out towards Ol Doinyo Lengai waiting for the sound and the dust and the cries of his cattle coming back . |