Example sentences of "come [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The trick is to get all three ingredients to come together in a smooth and easy symmetry . |
| 4 | He was pleased to see how well they had all mixed , even though they had admittedly come together with a common purpose . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | The reader might have come away with a Victorian idea of the inexorability of progress , each generation better , finer and braver than its parents . |
| 7 | Half a crown And you used to come away with a big piece of flat brisket and if he 's got any sausage left , or bits a of pork pies , he used to shove a bit of that in . |
| 8 | She said : ‘ Try and persuade him to come home for a special tea . |
| 9 | This was also controlled by a private club , but we were sometimes given a day 's fishing and generally managed to come home with a few trout . |
| 10 | People are more likely to come home after a few drinks , light a cigarette and then fall asleep , often with tragic consequences . |
| 11 | However , they have come home to a safe place where they know they are loved and that it is safe to have their tantrums . |
| 12 | Then she remembered why Nahum had come home in a terrible temper and called her unrepeatable names . |
| 13 | Now , as she crossed into Farringdon Street and saw familiar landmarks , she stopped and put down her bag , gazing about her with the pleasure of someone who has come home after a long absence . |
| 14 | Erm sometimes if he 's been out very very late and I 'm still up and he 's come home after a heavy night drinking . |
| 15 | It was after her mother had come home from a solitary trip to Rome . |
| 16 | The rise in the popularity of herbs as medicinal remedies is less obvious but it seems to have come partly from a general dissatisfaction with synthesized drugs , as well as plastics , artificials and chemicals — " manufactured " articles of all kinds , which are being rejected in favour of substances naturally grown and formed by hand into the artifact required . |
| 17 | We had come now to a poor area . |
| 18 | He 's come here with a fixed idea , which he 's been looking forward to for half his life . |
| 19 | Two and a half months earlier Dedjazmatch Abashum had come here with a large force to collect the tribute which the Asaimara were withholding , but he had been afraid to enter Bahdu and had withdrawn . |
| 20 | So she had come across as a man-crazy huntress scouting prospects . |
| 21 | That would be a mistake : this is one of the most satisfying and interesting CDs I have come across in a long while . |
| 22 | ( He has come closest to an antipathetic character as the ex-con in Straight Time , and as a crook in Family Business , two of his biggest commercial failures . ) |
| 23 | ‘ In fact , I could swear your image-maker wants me to come across as a free spirit , someone who does n't need the convention of a male escort — and I do n't . |
| 24 | I mean , there was no way I was going to come across as an anal retentive simply because I had pride in my appearance . |
| 25 | Move over Wilf NOT a lot of people might know this , but a Newcastle United player has come closer to an Olympic medal than poor old wobbling Wilf O'Reilly . |
| 26 | The paths of two lives , or three to be exact , came together for a little while and then separated . |
| 27 | Some thirty graduates of the degree came together for an excellent meal in University House , followed by an informal update from one of the joint organisers of the reunion , Keith Moffitt , on the whereabouts of those who had been unable to attend . |
| 28 | 1910 is the year in which the Cubist painters , other than Picasso and Braque , came together as a conscious group , although many of them had known each other earlier . |
| 29 | I love walking the course , never mind the golf , but on this occasion it all came together with a good score as well . |
| 30 | Their work came together at a recent exhibition in Napier 's new KJP Gallery . |