Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exercises , whether for translation or other kinds of manipulation , can be neatly presented in sentences , with a tick or a mark for each one , and in this way everybody knows where they are going , and how far they have come in developing the necessary formal basis . |
| 2 | Historians will be occupied for a long time to come in determining the exact balance and interaction of forces — including , to mention only the more obvious , the economic disaster of the Second World War , the rise of America , and the development of nationalism — which contributed to Britain 's imperial demise . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , Gabby came in riding the second wave . |
| 4 | She lugged her case up the wrong stairway , came out facing the open lough , had to find her way around the superstructure . |
| 5 | Every evening he would come down wearing the black cashmere jacket he had worn on the first night , and in a mood that was somehow expectant . |