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 . ’ |