Example sentences of "come [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The brand new year round EURO DISNEY Resort is scheduled to come alive on 12th April 1992 just across the Channel in France , 20 miles east of Paris .
2 At the earliest stage it should be made to come alive for young people and teachers in the processes of education .
3 That 's why I crawl down holes and chuck myself off cliffs and ride the bike — it 's been the only way I could feel alive , but since I met you I 've come alive in other ways , ways I 'd forgotten long ago .
4 For Alton , Mike Lake found some improved form after a long time out with injury , to come 899th in 50 mins , 05 secs .
5 Stirling , who had come direct from Eighth Army Headquarters , was on the horns of a dilemma .
6 The former ruling League of Communists ( LC ) had come second with 75 seats .
7 If , if you er go down and visit the toilet block you will see above the doors there are a number of bricks that have come loose on both sides .
8 The NSF had come first in 28 counties , the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania ( HDUR ) in six , the Democratic Convention in five and the Romanian National Unity Party in one .
9 Charity , I should have come clean on that right away .
10 Are the Government going to send other material that they want to launder to Wandsworth prison or are they now going to come clean about this episode ?
11 He was challenged to come clean over personal assurances he gave in December 1990 that ministers were obeying a ban on selling defence equipment to Saddam Hussein .
12 He called on Ministers to come clean over secret proposals to cut the unemployment benefit period from a year to six months .
13 Instead , virgin forest is plundered , and behind the loggers come thousands of displaced migrant farmers who destroy any chance the land may have had of regenerating itself .
14 Portability I solved years ago with a Tandy 102 , a tiny , bounce-it-off-the concrete newspaperperson 's computer which came complete with built-in programmes , a modem for firing stories down phone lines and virtually no memory .
15 They came complete with miniature versions of themselves , flawlessly self-assured offspring called Ben , Simon , Emma and Kate , who had been breast-fed dry sherry and even drier wit .
16 The customers came alive with sparkling eyes , and delighted in describing special ingredients and the region they came from .
17 Before then the office came alive with two pieces of news : Sniffy Wilson had been captured and Marilyn Duxbody had been charged under the Obscene Publications Act .
18 Although Elonex came top of the rankings for both competitively priced products and services , it was the Dell Computer Corporation that recently came top for overall quality in the Computer Weekly /Kew Associates annual survey of IT suppliers , thanks to ‘ its consistent supply of reliable computers and services . ’
19 Once she came second among 60 contestants in a competition to find the telephone operator with the most pleasant and efficient manner .
20 in the second half the South West got going … and came good with three tries
21 Being signed by Hampshire as replacement for Andy Roberts just a few months after his Test debut gave him the chance to impress Clive Lloyd in county matches and in 1982 he really came good with 134 wickets , the best season 's haul since the reduction in championship matches in 1969 .
22 TOMMY SMITH : ‘ So you 're saying his decision to have this operation and to actually sell it to the Sun came all within five seconds ? ’
23 Eight six-weekly inspections were carried out and the winning department came first on five occasions .
24 In the trade union section , which is allocated 40 per cent of the total vote , Mr Davies came first with 25 votes , Field second with 15 and Wilson last with 11 votes .
25 They came first in 66 wards and emerged as the only national political party other than Labour and the Conservatives with any metropolitan councillors .
26 Apollinaire pointed out that Boccioni 's best works were those in which he came nearest to recent works by Picasso which he had seen in Paris .
27 Mac came seventh in that race , but I thought that he had done well .
28 Helen Kaumi was threatened when she came face-to-face with two thugs after being woken by noises at her home .
29 There came one of those breaks in the conversation , and in the middle of it Jane suddenly asked : " Are you all better again now , dear ?
30 At Adelaide came 150 in hours ( a record 281 for the third wicket with Keith Rigg ) , then 128 at home against Queensland .
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