Example sentences of "come [adv] [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commando parties were to come ashore at three points : over the bows of Campbeltown ; on the Old Entrance quays ; and on the Old Mole . |
| 2 | ‘ But we 've come away with two victories — so we must be doing something right . |
| 3 | He had come home on 30 March and , referring to Sutherland , had told her : ‘ That bastard had the cheek to lose the head with me because it did not work . |
| 4 | Luckily Mike Farquharson who had only come offshore for two days and ended up staying a week , volunteered to cover until my colleague Jim Gibb arrived . ’ |
| 5 | But she 's agreed to come straight from one job to another , something she tries hard to avoid . |
| 6 | Bobby McAlpine , chairman of Alfred McAlpine , says grimly : ‘ This is infinitely the worst construction recession I have come across in 42 years in the industry . ’ |
| 7 | The pony rescue in August 1990 was the trickiest situation she had come across in five years as a vet . |
| 8 | Davis 's agent was there , Herrick Shnexnayder , a desperate human being who wore a French smock , a prosciutto cravat and the most complicated double pate-job I have ever come across in ten years of show business . |
| 9 | We came together on one point , and that was our attitude towards the media . |
| 10 | He kept working when the war started between the Arabs and the Jews but his last edition came suddenly on 9 March 1948 . |
| 11 | The small railway outpost had the Indian sign on it when closure came entirely on I January 1917 in the midst of World War I. However , some five years later the GWR had a change of heart and decided to reopen the station to goods traffic on 18 September 1922 . |
| 12 | But many of his supporters have been angered by the military coalition 's confiscations of weapons and by diminished opportunities to loot and extort since the first marines came ashore on 9 December . |
| 13 | My Manchester United lads went there three times in a fortnight last season and came home with two wins and a draw , and the biggest factor was the way Gary Pallister handled Lee Chapman . |
| 14 | In the second race Carl came home in 10.03 seconds for yet another Championship best . |
| 15 | Mrs Megan Quaile , 79 , who tripped and fractured her hip , came home after eight days and is ‘ feeling fine ’ . |
| 16 | Sally Dade trundled backwards and forwards in and out of the kitchen carrying table linen , candlesticks , silver and cut-glassware in a bath of sweat and giggles , while Mrs Stocks , who usually only came once in five weeks for an orgy of washing , wept silently into the pan of onions she was skinning . |
| 17 | In the country at large there was some pronounced hostility but it came mainly from one quarter and on one issue — churchmen and the religious settlement . |
| 18 | Thus the new US Secretary of State , George Marshall , came forward on 5 June 1947 with the Marshall Plan , to help pay for a comprehensive recovery plan which would set Europe on its economic feet . |
| 19 | The simplistic edges succeeded in highlighting the strength of the songwriting , the virtuosity of Johnny Marr 's guitar work and the gradual coming together of four musicians with one purpose . |
| 20 | This is essentially a phenomenon of domestic cats , because the territories of wild cats are so much bigger , and the chances of a whole group of tom-cats coming together in one spot when a wild female is on heat are more remote . |
| 21 | he 's being a zombie , so he 's coming downstairs with two sleeping bags over the top of his head and knocking everything over , just look at it |
| 22 | Well I tell you what I was doing , I was in the stern of the boat coming ashore with one oar in the stern of the boat , I was like hell you know , and I was standing on the sculling . |
| 23 | You 're not coming home for three months ? |
| 24 | ‘ Coming home after six hours or so , as you do with a domino birth , is actually more restful than staying in for 24 or 48 hours , ’ she says . |
| 25 | For three long periods during my time as a writer , now coming close to twenty years , barrenness and depression have gone together . |
| 26 | Jellicoe 's fleet was coming southward in six columns , running parallel and stretching 6.4km/4mls from side to side . |
| 27 | ‘ I have been coming here for nine years and have a feel for the heart of the city and this song says it all . ’ |
| 28 | I I 've been coming here for forty years so far and and provocative statement I think in your programme this Autumn is the best that you 've had for years it 's a very good combination of classical and and modern plays and I really congratulate you on this programme and I would like to see that standard maintained . |
| 29 | But it seemed as if Bert 's job , possibly conveniently , prevented him from coming anywhere near Four Winds for the time being . |
| 30 | Under the theme of ‘ Preparing the Way ’ , leaders in dance and movement ministries will come together on 22–29 August ‘ to seek a vision for the next ten years ’ and to launch ICDF as an organisation . |