Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 In nightclubs and pop promo videos , it 's as if the banshees have come down screaming from the catwalk , staggering in their stilettos under the weight of their Max Factor cosmetics and costume jewellery .
2 They 've come along to talk about the Services for Industry programme , and what the University can offer local firms .
3 LIVERPOOL super-featherweight Jimmy Owens , who in August was involved in an acrimonious split with his manager Carl Moorcroft , has come up fighting with the most important contest and biggest payday of his career .
4 It looks , it 's come back looking like a brand new mower !
5 Must 've come back looking like a ghost
6 Waking in our bed one morning , we 'll hear a chorus of trills and cheeps ; fun has come back to cluster in the branches of the tree outside our window .
7 In fact , liberal or not , she has come back to work for the ANC , though her exact capacity is not made clear .
8 Stephen had them in the handsome , leather-bound edition of the International Collectors ' Library and also in the paperbacks that had come out to go with the television series .
9 Blaise Cendrars , the writer , saw Modigliani let fall a twenty-franc note one evening when a well-known pauper came in to sit at the next table .
10 A door at the end of the hall opened , and Arkhina came in attended by a serving woman .
11 He had scarcely settled to work when his stepmother came in followed by a sad-eyed little King Charles spaniel who immediately began exploring the corners of the room .
12 All of them failed , from the disastrous Purko Sheep Ranch , where the sheep died because the ranch was at too high an altitude , to the four big grazing schemes which went under in the drought of the early 1960s , when people from outside the schemes , under pressure of need , came in to graze on the permanent waters and massive erosion occurred .
13 The last man in , John Bendall had already injured himself when we were fielding and he also came in to bat with a runner .
14 He came in running like a fat sow , his uniform 's half burned off his fucking back . ’
15 This morning Betty — my cleaner — came in bursting with the news that there was a brass plate outside .
16 His parachute was caught by turbulence as he came in to land on a school playing field .
17 The small jet came in to land with a rush at Marco Polo Airport and , brakes squealing a protest , taxied clear of the runway .
18 They came in to land in a snowscape , the lights along the thin ribbon of recently cleared runway coming into view and stretching out in front of them as the Seneca descended on its final approach .
19 A few days after that Norman Prince , the founder of the Lafayette , flying long and late in an attempt to avenge Rockwell , hit a high-tension cable as he came in to land in the dark .
20 When a pupil came in asking for a special book , he would rush and find it before Mr Crangle .
21 When Helen came in to help with the spaying operation she looked rather nervous .
22 Just before she turned the sign on the door round to read ‘ Closed ’ , a woman came in to look at the toys .
23 Er many members of the public took advantage of the offer of the more detailed appraisal er and indeed came in to look at the detailed consultants reports .
24 Rob came over to perch on the corner of her desk .
25 The eerie lights would hang in the air for quite some time then the mortars came over to burst at the edge of the wood .
26 The ever increasing army of tourists who came up to look at the scenery was growing .
27 When the keeper came up to check on the Spectacled Bears , she could n't understand that Omero and Minky were trying to tell her that Sam was ill , she just saw that he was curled up in a ball and would n't move .
28 They were among a few people who came back to see over the property again quite a few times , and I met their sons .
29 She said : ‘ After one of his trips to Highgrove he came back raving about the solid gold service .
30 I carried on , then came back to live in the North but it just seems to have been a really cemented bond . ’
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