Example sentences of "come [adv prt] as the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Nahh … what I 'd really like to do is come back as the guy who shot Reagan a few years back , only I would n't miss ! |
2 | Hewlett-Packard currently looks by far the best placed of the biggest manufacturers to come out as the winner in the 1990s — but then three or four years ago , that was being said about DEC . |
3 | If you were in a wine bar with ferns , mellowed out on red wine and having a really sloppy kissy kissy lovey dovey ooghy woogy dinner with your lover and Blueboy came on as the cabaret , you would go berserk and slash open their gizzards with the cake fork . |
4 | Alain came in as the doctor 's car left the house and he stood at the foot of the bed and regarded her sternly . |
5 | On these occasions the gloves came off as the Service most adversely affected sought support in Parliament , in the media , from industry , and from the electorate , in what it saw as its fight for survival . |
6 | ‘ Obviously , as a Liverpool fan , you have to be worried but I 'm perfectly hopeful that we 'll get through this and come back as the force that we always have been . ’ |
7 | All the analysis ignores the fact that the product that is intrinsically the best almost never comes out as the winner in the market : in the immortal words scriptwriter Vincent Lawrence put into Mae West 's mouth , when it comes to the market success of MS-DOS or the IBM Personal Computer standard , goodness had nothing to do with it . |
8 | She is rather good at " doing " Jamaican vowels , except for the vowel of STRUT [ P3 ] , which always comes out as the LE version . |