Example sentences of "come [adv] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a fear that , having come so close last year , Renault 's effort would face away in 1992 . |
| 2 | I told you not to come down those blasted stairs on your own . ’ |
| 3 | Children from working-class homes have now come under two new pressures . |
| 4 | ‘ To come out all this way , to live in the country at immense cost ! |
| 5 | And this this we see , it 's er quite interesting , this you notice this bit here is not plastered , and this has not got these dimples , so we think that what actually happened is when they first did this the the the the this bit of the window was blocked up with wood or wattle and daub or something like that , and so it was a a a and then when then when the vestry came down this these stones were put in here to block it up again . |
| 6 | Niki won in South Africa , Germany and Holland ; he came in second six times and beat Jody Scheckter to the championship by 17 points ; Reutemann was fourth , 30 points off the pace behind Andretti . |
| 7 | She came in fourth this time , riding a horse bred by her father , who is doing his bit for tradition by breeding both the horses and the riders ! |
| 8 | Out of the entire proceedings came just one plaintive comment : ‘ Why is it always raining when we are ready to go home ? ’ . |
| 9 | Sid grinned and said : ‘ You came up that last bit at a fair lick . ’ |
| 10 | The call came as two Iranian students were deported after being questioned in connection with threats to firebomb bookshops . |
| 11 | Graphic evidence of their commitment to the 999 service came as three separate emergency calls were received at Fulham and crews responded to two road accidents and a medical collapse . |
| 12 | The news came as British Olympic chiefs demanded that confusion over the status of clenbuterol the drug at the centre of the controversy should be quickly cleared up by their international counterparts . |
| 13 | Reports of a possible attack on Kismayu by Mr Jess 's supporters came as 15 Somali factions meeting in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa neared agreement on a new transitional authority in Somalia , without a government since January 1991 . |
| 14 | West German participation in the European fighter aircraft ( EFA or Eurofighter ) project with the UK , Italy and Spain ( see pp. 36106 ; 36429-30 ) , already resisted by the opposition Social Democrats , came under further political pressure when in mid-January 1990 the Free Democrat Party executive decided that its platform in the December 1990 elections should include withdrawal from the project . |
| 15 | Now his voice was coming over five thousand miles of air and five hundred years of diverse progress . |
| 16 | Why did n't I come down that other road ? |
| 17 | Nowadays the buildings were filled with furniture awaiting repair , lawn-mowers , deck chairs , tea chests full of bottling equipment or archaic kitchen utensils which ‘ might come in useful one day ’ , two deep freezers and a decrepit tricycle and a rocking horse , the property of Paul Young , their only child . |
| 18 | Its abolition was recommended as long ago as 1967 but nothing has been done — one suspects a feeling that it might come in useful one day . |
| 19 | The KGB owed MI6 a favour which might come in handy one day . |
| 20 | I advise you to buy it — it may come in handy one day . |
| 21 | At this time it was filled with the sort of junk that might come in handy one day if one could remember where one had put it . |
| 22 | Even the useless dowelling with a bit of tin can on the end might come in handy one day ! . |
| 23 | It 's just a hobby I really enjoy , journalism is the job I really want to do and you never know drama could come in handy one day ! |
| 24 | This was one of the unwelcome chores , but it would come in handy this time because the wireless agent had his business in the village of Stone which was a couple of miles beyond Ham where Julie lived . |
| 25 | Could come in handy next time your parents talk to your teacher about you . |
| 26 | They get the shilling , and a golden promise , and they think they will come back alive one day . ’ |
| 27 | Why do n't you come back some other time . ’ |
| 28 | You did n't you could n't come out any other way , just the one way in and that was the finish of it . |
| 29 | Shall I come about eleven next Wednesday ? ’ |
| 30 | We 'll come again some other time . " |