Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [adj] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donald came down two hours ago , and would you believe it , Bisset will not come to marry them . ’ |
| 2 | Tired , too : she lay awake at night , thinking , and came down several mornings so pale that Auntie Lou wanted to go to the chemist and buy her a tonic . |
| 3 | Acting in line with his belief that ‘ the people who are closest to the work really do know it better ’ , Mr Welch came up two years ago with an anti-bureaucratic device called ‘ the work-out . ’ |
| 4 | Er , and this came up several years ago , when this council went into conversation with the Goddard Estate , and the Goddard Estate wishing to dispose of our assets . |
| 5 | Tobermore came back 11 minutes later to level the score with a brilliant kick by Mark Patterson from the edge of the box to the right corner of the net . |
| 6 | Branwell came back two weeks later , his face white , his clothes dirty . |
| 7 | Tony came back 10 days later looking happier , and reported that he had checked the newspapers regularly and had sent off several applications for jobs . |
| 8 | Fellow of Balliol , went to Harvard in his late thirties , came back five years ago . |
| 9 | ‘ One fishermen told me he saw seals in the area where he shot 20 creels and when he came back 20 minutes later they were all robbed . |
| 10 | When he came back several minutes later , he was still smiling . |
| 11 | I have n't stayed in for about two months , about eight weeks , not one night , and he goes , ‘ I think you should stay in at least one ’ , and I goes , ‘ If you think I 'm staying in then you get lost , because I 'm not staying in this flaming house ’ , and he goes , ‘ You 're staying when I tell you to ’ , and I goes , ‘ I wo n't ’ , and I walked out and came back ten minutes later and said , ‘ I 'm going out , all right ? ’ and he goes , ‘ Okay ’ , and he give me some money to go out and come up here [ to the youth club ] . |
| 12 | But he came back three days later crying his eyes out and begging me to forgive him , he looked like a helpless puppy . |
| 13 | Old Plumpton appeared in his white trousers and string vest and the four boys came out five minutes later , not looking keen at all . |
| 14 | ‘ Actually , it was a terribly hard decision to make , because my album just came out two months ago here and the only negative thing is that I ca n't be here to promote it . |
| 15 | I came out seven years later , and the whole world had changed . |
| 16 | I think it is about , coming up thirty years now . |
| 17 | ‘ If someone comes in with a litter of four-month-old puppies and I take them in , would you believe they just come back six months later with the bitch 's next log ! |
| 18 | He would have recognized the place if he had left at once and come back six months later . |
| 19 | We thought it would be a good idea to give them a chance straight off to have an opinion , and we set them a nice problem , which was that they put a marble into something and another marble comes out thirty seconds later . |
| 20 | He comes back two weeks later saying that he has been given the sack . |