Example sentences of "come [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Billy had come home a physical wreck and it was only when Danny himself took up boxing seriously that his friend regained some of his self-esteem by helping and instructing him . |
| 2 | THE SHAMEN have come quite a long way from their origins as an indie psychedelic outfit . |
| 3 | THE SHAMEN have come quite a long way from their origins as an indie psychedelic outfit . |
| 4 | ‘ I do seem to have come quite a long way . ’ |
| 5 | The assault came only a few hours after Gorbachev had reassured a Federation Council meeting in Moscow that force would not be used . |
| 6 | The attack came only a few hours after the Thai Interior Minister , Gen. Issarapong Noonpakdi , had issued a " last warning " to the Myanman military to withdraw all its troops from the Thai side of the border . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , the invitation came only a few days before the weekend fixed for the competition , giving the Ayrshire team no time at all to train . |
| 8 | The double explosion came just a few hours after a bomb exploded at Woodside Park tube station . |
| 9 | He has n't altered , that I can see , since he came away a rich man . ’ |
| 10 | Duncan and Lisburn 's Neil McGrann were side by side after 50 metres , but it was the Ards swimmer who produced that little bit extra and came home a comfortable winner in a time of 1.10.13 . |
| 11 | My son-in-law came home a few weeks ago and confessed he 'd been having an affair with a girl in his office . |
| 12 | It was yeah they 'd come quite a long way actually . |
| 13 | Friends can come quite a long distance to have Sunday lunch with you , whereas for an evening dinner , there probably would not be enough time . |
| 14 | ‘ Can you just come forward a few steps ? |
| 15 | His mother 's claims come just a few days before the publication of a report into the case of seven mental patients , who died after they were discharged from hospital . |
| 16 | The national competition successes come just a few weeks after site newsletter Risley News was voted the north 's Newsletter of the Year at the Guardian Editing Awards , staged by the Northern region of the BAIE in Manchester . |
| 17 | I come home a little bit earlier tonight |
| 18 | And erm come here a young girl and a baby , and helping to install her in in on one of the flats , and just sort of e th there was something erm happened to be wrong with one of the rubbish chutes at that time , and we were actually kicking our way through rubbish on the stairs , erm near the chute to get erm to come up . |
| 19 | The Blessed Sacrament Chapel is in a small room just inside the Presbytery door and to it come over a hundred people who give an hour of their time a week to ‘ watch ’ but there are countless others who come in just for a minute or two and there find a few minutes of silence and prayer . |
| 20 | at they come over a hundred miles an hour on some of these runs ! |
| 21 | This leap into the future comes only a few months after the dest … ruction by fire of — ’ |
| 22 | Mr Bangemann 's intervention comes only a few weeks after Mr Major accused the President of the German Bundesbank , Helmut Schlesinger , of sabotaging the pound . |