Example sentences of "come [adv] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is more like a slow process of sifting , in which , by a long series of stages , and with many pauses , grains of one kind tend to come together in a heap ’ . |
| 2 | Soon after , all the rabbits had come together in a kind of hollow . |
| 3 | Word has it that an unlikely combination of forces have come together in a bid to establish a new standard for installing Unix software from graphical user interfaces and will be showing their stuff next month 's Uniforum show in San Francisco . |
| 4 | Anyhow , we had open views over the Heath and Vale of Health and it made a lovely family home even if it was badly designed with a huge wasteful " well " in the middle of the house which had the advantage of enabling us to come downstairs in a series of flying leaps , holding on to tall mahogany pillars at the corners of the stairway . |
| 5 | The legates were first received by Archbishop Jaenberht at Canterbury , from whence they journeyed to the court of Offa , who received them most favourably , and Offa , together with Cynewulf , king of the West Saxons , came together in a council where papal letters directing attention to the need for reform in the Anglo-Saxon Church were consulted and promises of reform made . |
| 6 | Her teeth came together in a snap . |
| 7 | When he came back he was carrying the calf , his arms encompassing all four legs , so the hooves came together in a bunch , with the rump and tail protruding over one forearm and the shoulders and chest over the other . |
| 8 | Bearing this in mind , the results are perhaps surprising because they showed that when the target came early in a word , reaction times were long ; but when the target came late in a word , reaction times were short . |
| 9 | Haverford came home in a state of nervous excitement . |
| 10 | Ryle wishes not to dissipate the contrast between mind and matter by absorbing one by the other but by showing that the contrasting of the two is as illegitimate as contrasting ‘ She came home in a flood of tears ’ and ‘ She came home in a sedan-chair ’ . |
| 11 | Ryle wishes not to dissipate the contrast between mind and matter by absorbing one by the other but by showing that the contrasting of the two is as illegitimate as contrasting ‘ She came home in a flood of tears ’ and ‘ She came home in a sedan-chair ’ . |
| 12 | He came home in a regulation 36 to show that his relative lack of length need not be a handicap on this king-size seaside course . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , just as we finished the boss came past in a hell of a state . |
| 14 | ‘ One of mine came past in a hurry . |
| 15 | You are not from this world , he says , and you came here in a metal ship which flew through the air . |
| 16 | Bearing this in mind , the results are perhaps surprising because they showed that when the target came early in a word , reaction times were long ; but when the target came late in a word , reaction times were short . |
| 17 | Her narrow , fluid hands came apart in a wide , pitying gesture which said " My poor boy . |
| 18 | The panspermia hypothesis does not deny that life started in a ‘ primeval soup ’ , it merely shows that life can come together in a variety of different ways . |
| 19 | Oh , and tell him that Moila 's too small for the ferry to dock , so he 'll come ashore in a boat . |
| 20 | These are similar to ceramic tiles , but are unglazed and come only in a range of earth/terracotta/red colours as they are made from unrefined clay . |
| 21 | School and college come together in a variety of other ways too , most notably through In-Service provision either on a direct one-to-one or collective basis , or through the Church 's own national structures . |
| 22 | The intellectual and emotional clarity of his understanding , his sensitivity to language , and the potential of traditional figurative modes of writing , come together in a work of literature which conveys a sense of the Incarnation as a live issue . |
| 23 | At any rate , the males leave their parties and come together in a posse . |
| 24 | Herodotus ' History can be seen as a sermon on the text that Spartans and Persians , even in their great period of conflict , gradually came to value each other 's qualities:2 at first ( Hdt. i.153 ) Cyrus the Great scoffs at the Greeks who come together in a market-place to cheat each other ; by the end , the exiled Spartan king Demaratos is shown ( vii.104 ) lecturing a clearly impressed Xerxes on the subject of Spartan deference to law . |
| 25 | This forgetfulness comes daily in a blanket of fog . |
| 26 | For example , you will allow your teenage daughter to stay out after twelve on a Saturday night , if she goes with friends you know and comes home in a taxi , and never alone . |
| 27 | And you will become aware of technical skills — noticing economy of effect and style , seeing and hearing how an actor interprets a script , and how his thinking comes across in a performance . |