Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 And you might be buying a sandwich , something like that so realistically should be able to come out presuming twenty parcels in about an hour then get about five pounds .
2 When he came in to put some logs on the sitting-room fire he could not restrain a sob , kneeling there with his back to the coffee-table .
3 Lorenzo Semple Jr came in to spend six weeks writing three quick drafts to create the character for Dustin — the wimpish , thickly bespectacled Louis Dega , ‘ the best counterfeiter in France ’ , who did not exist in the Charrière book .
4 Every twenty minutes throughout the proceedings a new shorthand writer came in to take verbatim notes .
5 ‘ I just came in to buy some flowers and a paper and suddenly I find I 'm in the middle of it all .
6 All the same , Merlyn said : ‘ We came over to fetch some things we store here . ’
7 A few minutes passed then Gerry came up carrying two cups .
8 Benjamin pulled me into the shadows as Mandeville came out to issue curt instructions for the dead sheriff 's body to be removed and informed the soldiers that he would stay at Templecombe for a while .
9 Our inflation rate is now coming down to approach German levels — but any fool can do that by recession , by knocking the economy flat on its back and by causing mass unemployment .
10 ‘ You need n't worry about Guy coming down to make any changes at Chester 's while you 're gone , ’ Lucy was adding calmly , as if sensing victory .
11 You do n't actually come out whistling any tunes from it , but it 's a real weepy with good sets .
12 Early traumas come back to haunt such cats and force them to behave in strange ways .
13 But when it comes down to concrete moral judgements and commitments , such abstractions will be found interpreted in opposing ways .
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