Example sentences of "come [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Injuries have hit the club , and coach Billy Lomax had to come on as a substitute midway through the second half . |
| 2 | The yellow nylon shirt with the frothy frill amounts to an offence against taste bordering on the criminal , yet it somehow works to offset his complexion ( pale blue ) and the ensemble enables him to come on like a chat-show host from Hell — vast smiles and arms flung out in gestures of mock formality . |
| 3 | Worst Career Move of the month : ex-world 's greatest sleazeball James Woods trying to come on like a middle-aged woman 's dreamboat opposite Dolly Parton in Straight Talk , which also has the biggest supporting cast of the month : Griffin Dunne , John Sayles , Spalding Gray . |
| 4 | The other lad who made a commitment came as a non-believer but was willing to come along with an open mind and on studying the gospels came to believe Jesus was indeed who he said he was and shortly after made his commitment . |
| 5 | But I cooled him out and he agreed to come along to a new rehearsal place that we 'd found , The Rose And Crown in Wandsworth . |
| 6 | We turned our ponies and galloped back to the Legation , where we learnt that news had just come in of a great victory for the Shoan army . |
| 7 | While it has come in for a certain amount of criticism , it has also attracted much praise , especially from industry . |
| 8 | Understandably , this presumption has come in for a great deal of criticism . |
| 9 | It is hard to disappoint someone who may have come in as a last port of call when all other channels to sort out their problems seem closed . |
| 10 | But I quite see that you need someone to come in on a practical issue like what to do about his tenants . |
| 11 | In terms of progressing or taking part in the discussion , can I suggest that if you want to come in on a particular item , you put your name board up like that , so that we can readily observe it er and equally , our friend who is looking after the microphones can make sure that the vol the volume of your microphone is turned up at the appropriate time . |
| 12 | And really I 'm going to start off and then Liz is going to come in on a particular aspect of this . |
| 13 | Affleck , who hopes to play for Wales in the World Cup this year , had a steady 67 , five birdies and 13 pars , while Sam Torrance , beginning at the 10th , did well to come in with a 68 . |
| 14 | and erm I used to do erm , keep a check on the flying times of the planes cos every forty hours they had to come in for a different check . |
| 15 | He never wrote entirely admiring reviews : ‘ It 's the essence of a book never to be perfect , ’ he said , ‘ so its writer must expect to come in for a little criticism . ’ |
| 16 | We used to come in for a fair amount of ribbing and good-natured chaff , and remarks like , Was it a red sky this morning ? |
| 17 | If I may broaden it away from erm the Cardinal Newman School and think probably of a lot of East Sussex Comprehensive Schools , I think we have all been , in the schools , in the last few years , working hard to establish this openness , and I think that the closed concept of the school , the school that locks children out at break or locks children out at dinner time , which only allows parents to come in for a phoney Open Day when there are a few children there , they are things largely , I think , of the past and they are the closed society . |
| 18 | She said politely , ‘ Would you like to come in for a last drink ? ’ |
| 19 | Ed Morrison allowed John Jeffrey to come in from an offside position and ‘ collect ’ a passing movement between two Japanese players while Hayashi was tackled without the ball when a try seemed certain for Japan . |
| 20 | It also seemed , from the feathers on the kitchen floor , that one of the pigeons had come down for a warm and had got too close . |
| 21 | An agreement to come together as an economic unit was reached by the exiled governments in 1944 , though the scheme did not envisage any political arrangements . |
| 22 | However in doing so , it is important that we take time , because time allows people to come together in a sensible way , not to be forced together . |
| 23 | The trick is to get all three ingredients to come together in a smooth and easy symmetry . |
| 24 | He was pleased to see how well they had all mixed , even though they had admittedly come together with a common purpose . |
| 25 | For the first time staff concerned with mapping and interpreting crustal structure in the third dimension have come together in a single division , Thematic Maps and Onshore Surveys ( TMOS ) . |
| 26 | Friends of the Earth criticized the lack of concrete suggestions , claiming that " the government has come along with a blank sheet of paper and asked the public to fill it in " . |
| 27 | I ask him to come down for a few days and I also invite Lady De Marr . |
| 28 | " Ask Dr. Lorrimer to come down for a few minutes , will you please ? " |
| 29 | He needed to come down from a greater height than most . |
| 30 | The reader might have come away with a Victorian idea of the inexorability of progress , each generation better , finer and braver than its parents . |