Example sentences of "come [prep] [adv] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert Julius Matson had guessed right : the first train had come through just nine years after the town was founded in 1858 , pulling behind it the fertiliser works , the com mill , the seed-com warehouse , and with them the quiet prosperity that spawned the first Masonic lodge in 1871 , a voluntary fire brigade in ‘ 75 , the telephone in ‘ 84 and the first sewer in 1920 . |
| 2 | 120 OR SO PLANT-BASED DRUGS PRESCRIBED FOR WORLD-WIDE USE COME FROM JUST 95 SPECIES — MANY KNOWN FOR CENTURIES |
| 3 | ‘ He 's old and he 's come in here two times , ’ Mario was saying . |
| 4 | Congress , we are bound to come to only one conclusion that equalizing pensions to sixty will be of benefit to all people , and the Tories are definitely not supporting that approach . |
| 5 | concrete stairs and , George nearly killed himself on them one morning , but er , and we tried everything to get out of there you know , no one would exchange a two bedroom maisonette for a house and of course I longed for a garden , but , and er George got a job in Hatfield and they offered this three bedroom house The Commission for The New Town , rent was cheaper than here , so we moved over there , but er , as I say we were only there two , three years and we came back again , we were over here , we used to come over here three times a week , when we lived there did n't we ? |
| 6 | I have come across not one company which incorporates the pursuit of honest profits with social awareness , which provides a vision for themselves and their workers . |
| 7 | The only Clough contribution came after just six minutes when he released Keane . |
| 8 | That came after just 4 minutes , but over the 90 minutes . |
| 9 | Clough 's only moment of inspiration came after just two minutes when he superbly threaded through a pass to utilise the blistering acceleration of White . |
| 10 | Hereford were bottom of the table when they kicked off on saturday … the lift they needed came after just seven minutes when top scorer Owen Pickard shot them into the lead … |
| 11 | The first one came after just 90 seconds . |
| 12 | ‘ It felt good and then the next one came after just 15 minutes . |
| 13 | The advice came after almost 50 burglaries from homes in and around Darlington in the last week . |
| 14 | The auction , which raised questions about the compensation of owners in the case of classification by the Monuments Historiques came after only two weeks after ‘ Corbeille de fleurs et fruits ’ by the same artist was sold at Drouot salerooms in Paris for the record sum of FFr7.5 million , far in excess of the £230,000 raised by Sotheby 's London for ‘ Still Life of Plums and Peaches ’ on 4 July , 1990 . |
| 15 | Suffice to say we spent two fruitless days at Glastonbury and left as we came with only two scraps of information : first , Hopkins had been a monk at the abbey , and secondly had discovered his famous riddle there . |
| 16 | The touchdown came with only one second left when Michael Haynes jumped among a crowd of defenders to catch for the victory . |
| 17 | Disappointment came with only one grade 1 pass — in PE — and he returned to school to take three GCE ‘ O ’ levels . |
| 18 | ‘ He came in here one night with a very angry look , ’ said store boss Mike Brent . |
| 19 | ‘ I can hardly believe so much came from just two schools — I hate to think what is lying in basements around the country , ’ Alistair said . |
| 20 | In a report delivered to Congress and the White House , the Fund says the contamination came from about 4,300 rounds of armour-piercing shells fired from tanks and aircraft . |
| 21 | The 18-year-old 's third Test century came from only 135 balls , and contained 14 fours : he hit two more before giving a catch to second slip , where Moody had earlier dropped Kapil Dev on 0 . |
| 22 | His fifty came from only 85 balls with a back-cut following a flowery on-driven four off Mallender . |
| 23 | Tony Adams , the Arsenal skipper , says : ‘ Niall and I are great friends and have been since he came over here 10 years ago . |
| 24 | ‘ I came over there fifteen minutes ago and they had two of the buggers up again , and the Boche artillery was pounding shit out of our lines . ’ |
| 25 | When he came to about twenty minutes later he could n't get out . |
| 26 | Even once Cinzia had bullied one of the assistants into offering Zen a discount , the item she had selected came to about three times what he had reckoned to spend , but he paid up . |
| 27 | Thus , offenders who invoke their Protestant religion as a means of justifying some action get short shrift , although we came across only one instance where this was done . |
| 28 | Heiresses dominate the magazine 's list of the 250 wealthiest women in Britain — there are 97 worth a total of £3.6 billion with the nine richest coming from just three families . |
| 29 | She sat back in the seat as she racked her brain before coming to just one conclusion : Harry Martin . |
| 30 | He knows that most of that money will come from just three member states , Britain , France and Germany . |