Example sentences of "come a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a forest fifty miles off , it 's outside our window because it 's not in this room and to come a little nearer home ther there 's a campus outside our window but we ca n't exactly see very much of it but we know it 's there and it 's got some birds in it , it 's probably got some little insects in it and there 's a woodpecker |
| 2 | With growing success has also come a more informed understanding of the quality of life . |
| 3 | He had come a very long way in the decade since his wife had failed to win a Belfast Corporation seat ! |
| 4 | Well Ivan has brought along this harp which is actually an Irish harp which has come a very long way . |
| 5 | He 's come a very long way to see what you 've got to say as well as hear the stories . |
| 6 | She would be falsely modest not to acknowledge the fact that she had come a very long way since those days when she had been a thin , gawky adolescent . |
| 7 | ‘ For a long time , ’ he says , ‘ the king acted on the advice of William of Montague , who always encouraged him to excellence , honour , and love of arms : and so they led their young lives in pleasant fashion , until there came a more serious time with more serious matters . ’ |
| 8 | I tried to banish the idea of a drowned Shelley by conjuring up the memory of Mary stepping into Lake Geneva and looking back at me over her shoulder ; instead came a more ferocious image — that of a gigantic man leaping towards me : not the best picture to help one through these present circumstances . |
| 9 | From far away , there came a very faint whoozing whiffling noise , like a small gusty wind blowing through the trees . |
| 10 | From somewhere nearby came a very dubious smell . |
| 11 | Everyone else — particularly your wife ! — came a very bad second . ’ |
| 12 | Then came a very special occasion . |
| 13 | At first came a very senior Sister and went over to the childless one in the corner . |
| 14 | ‘ There is nothing in there that would matter to you anyway , ’ came a faintly amused voice . |
| 15 | During the evening of that Christmas Day came a really bright spot as far as I was concerned . |
| 16 | Round the corner came a perfectly strange man , a stocky middle-aged man with wire-rimmed spectacles and a shock of greying brown hair . |
| 17 | For Johnny , there were the Brits … and the other lot , all lumped together , and coming a pretty poor second . |
| 18 | I do n't know he 's gon na come a right bloody cropper |
| 19 | With greater productivity will come a more consistent product , improved site safety and reduced emissions . |
| 20 | We had both come a very long way . |
| 21 | From Sounion comes a splendidly illuminating decree of the demesmen , which reads : ‘ It seemed good to the men of Sounion : since Leukios has given the demesmen land to build an agora , three men are to be chosen straight away to measure an area not less than 2 plethra by 1 , so that there shall be broad space for the men of Sounion to agorazein ’ … ( the last word is untranslatable : ‘ carry on all the activities usual in an agora ’ is accurate but too prosaic ; there is also the sense of ‘ promenading oneself : Syll. 925 ) . |