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

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1 Well , I sat in that room and saw this fantastic-looking man come through the door and I just did n't believe it .
2 This can include a reluctance to ask them to visit , or to come for a meal and even the fear , felt by some women , that a grieving woman may attract their own husbands .
3 I no longer vociferously challenge those who insult ; instead , I may casually invite them to come for a coffee and see/meet some students .
4 Obviously you will only be asked to come for an interview if you have made an initial approach for a job .
5 er yes I was saying erm they only had the midwives in them days did n't they , to come for the birth and that and anyway my mother was was ill enough to have to send for a doctor .
6 Perhaps because no photographer 's sense of composition or lighting has come between the subject and the reader , they manage to be informative as well as visually satisfying .
7 The only ‘ ideas ’ are acts of perception , and these in no sense come between the perceiver and the object perceived .
8 you know the , the things alone and I said get your hands off those doors I do n't like polishing , so he 's come for a cloth and the polish
9 I 've only come for the afternoon because Sheila 's off sick .
10 To our relief , she missed out on all the formalities except for a perfunctory cry of ‘ GamBei ’ ( ‘ Down the hatch ’ ) and ‘ Greetings to our British friends ’ , and concentrated on tucking into the excellent meal — she gave the impression that she had come for the food and drink and nothing else .
11 One party had come as a dragon and were doing a conga through the dancing couples , tail disintegrating even as the giant head bobbed up and down .
12 It can not have come as a surprise when , in November 1990 , the ninth biggest US accounting firm , Laventhol & Howarth , had to seek Chapter 11 protection from its creditors , with the ensuing risk of personal bankruptcy for its partners .
13 Having come from a country afflicted by the worst drought in recent memory it should have come as no surprise that the Namibians were able to handle the Sicilian heat .
14 So it should have come as no surprise that IBM , which can no longer afford to squander money on things that only might come good , has decided to stop financing Supercomputing Systems .
15 The only permissible course is to issue a subpoena for him to come as a witness or to produce the documents to the court ’ .
16 I was going to ask Mike if he wants to come as an observer because he 's never been to conference and erm
17 If God intended that parents should not be permitted to come between a husband and a wife , then surely football pals or the darts team , the sports club , or any other activity should not be allowed to be an obstacle to this new relationship .
18 She considered it an impertinence to come between a reader and her literary taste .
19 Technical apparatus of some sort has to come between the record and our ears , and , of course , between the original performance and the record .
20 P O A by the way , another thing I 'm thinking of doing is saying , if you want a net price enter in there , it has to come through a manager or
21 I found this out at Dagenham , when I worked at Fords , the supply lorries used to come through the day and through the night with articles made in other factories , including bodies and wheels and these were put on the assembly line and routed through Fords to be assembled .
22 The current in Harrogate 's case significant number of major job losses and we we estimate that those amount to between three and four thousand jobs , er many of which we feel are still to come through the system and are therefore not reflected in unemployment figures of yet .
23 However , the only disaster occurred inside the Tower , where the duty staff dived to the floor when it looked as if the port wing was going to come through the window and a bottle of red ink emptied itself down the right sleeve of Flt Lt Dunlop , the Officer in Charge .
24 I went on the road when I was 19 , I needed to come off the road so I knew who I was .
25 Unlike a ridge like the Aonach Eagach where escape is impossible until the end , it is not only feasible , but very tempting to come off the ridge and wander into the wild land of the Glenquoich forest that appears so inviting from the tops .
26 Like the woman said there , there seems to be a lot of help for people who are on drugs , and who then want to come off them , but the after-care service seems to be you know , a lot erm , there 's not a lot help for the people , they get the help to come off the drugs and then they 're put back into the society that they are from and they seem to still have that pressure to go back to where they were previously .
27 Every burger joint seems to be full of leisure-wear parents waiting for their delinquents to come off the hill and be escorted home .
28 Well as I actually had to going round the corner , to get myself round the corner , I had to come off the brake and onto the accelerator
29 Here are come of the issues and challenges we faced .
30 We were told not to do this , told not to come here , told to sledge and throw snowballs and make snowmen all we wanted , but not even to come near the loch and the river , in case we fell through the ice ; and yet Andy came here after we 'd sledged for a while on the slope near the farm , walked down here through the woods despite my protests , and then when we got here to the river bank I said well , as long as we only looked , but then Andy just whooped and jumped down onto the boulder-lumped white slope of shore and sprinted out across the pure flat snow towards the far bank .
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