Example sentences of "come [adv] [adv] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Now is this a suggestion the thin end of the wedge , that we now start taking away the authority of our service committees to decide what they want to do , and have to pass it back up the line for decisions to be made , because quite frankly , I do n't want to come down here five days a week , ten hours a day for full council meetings .
2 I 'll have to come up there one Monday night and watch him play moosh
3 The second level , Taylor 's , was to be located downstream from here and driven into the western side of the Red Dell Beck to come up about 180 ft. below the old workings on the surface — Wide Work .
4 Yesterday the crossing was in operation again , amid local claims that the warning lights came on only 10 seconds before trains go through .
5 Erm turbocharging in diesel engines really came on about ten years ago .
6 Margaret closed her eyes tightly as the ruler came down hard six times across her palm .
7 The hon. Gentleman came in just five minutes ago .
8 The FTSE came in just 0.2 points ahead and slipped around eight points before settling up 0.7 points at 2812.9 .
9 " I have n't seen her for several weeks then she came in about two hours ago — sort of staggered into the kitchen , and she was carrying the kitten in her mouth .
10 The divorce came through about six months ago . ’
11 Prime Minister John Major watched Smith smash 82 of the 114 runs England added from their final 10 overs his third fifty came off just 20 balls and said : ‘ Gilbert Jessop would be proud of him .
12 His 59 came off only 55 balls , but when he and then Garner departed , Gomes was apparently stranded on 96 since Marshall was not expected to bat .
13 Campbell 's 140 came off only 146 balls and included 14 fours and six sixes .
14 ‘ My mates and I came up here one day when there was no English football , Christmas Eve I think , and I just got hooked , ’ he said at half time .
15 There was one child came up about seventeen times
16 And this came up about three times !
17 But it came up about three times !
18 In 1990 he was so impressed by the Belfast reception that he came back just three weeks later to do it all again .
19 And she came back about five minutes after she went and you can call me .
20 One of them — a little old-fashioned perhaps , for I do not see many people doing it nowadays — is to walk around it guide-book in hand , best of all with one of those old Murray 's Handbooks for Travellers , the most catholic , the most informative , the most solid guide-books ever written in this country ; still well worth buying though the last one came out nearly fifty years ago and one must hunt for them with increasing difficulty in the second-hand bookshops .
21 Then the album came out about six months later and there was no track — the track never made it to the album !
22 They came here only two years ago , and before that he owned a school in the north of England .
23 ‘ She came here about three months ago and made your acquaintance , did n't she ? ’
24 ‘ Then you 'll know Heather came here about three months ago .
25 The glazed window which came about almost 2,000 year s ago was a luxury which only the privileged few enjoyed .
26 The 260 days of the sacred year each had a number from one to thirteen attached to it and there were also twenty different day-names , arranged so that the same combination of number and name only came round again 260 days later .
27 For Richards it was another triumph , with 145 coming off just 159 balls , a display even more spectacular than Gooch 's — although the Englishman had had to contend with rather more hostile bowling .
28 Glass hit 91 which included 11 boundaries , his half century coming off only 40 balls .
29 ‘ What gives ? ’ enquired Sebastian , coming home late one night to find Leith barring his way to the kitchen .
30 Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ?
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