Example sentences of "[pers pn] come [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I come across a new metaphor , one that stretches my understanding , I feel cold . |
| 2 | I walk through the remnants of ancientness until , close to the cliffs , I come to a brown headstone : shoulder high , two feet wide . |
| 3 | I like to understand the meanings of words and always refer to a dictionary when I come on a new word . |
| 4 | ‘ Have I come at a bad time ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Have I come at a bad moment ? ’ she asked . |
| 6 | My first ambition was to be a concert pianist , but I come from a long line of actors and I suppose it was inevitable really that I 'd follow them . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps I come from a long line of knights and no-one ever told me . |
| 8 | ‘ I come from a great medical mafia , most of my relatives are medically involved one way or another , ’ she told David Frost yesterday , adding that none of her family have private health insurance . |
| 9 | ‘ I come from a small village in the far north of Scotland . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Because I come from a booky family , in some ways I 've taken writing for granted — it 's like coming from a family of butchers and going into the meat trade . |
| 11 | I come from a Jewish family which includes victim 's ; that picture of myself was a particularly horrible one . |
| 12 | Now , there 's been lots of talk about gay and lesbian people not having no rights , I come from a Jewish society , I 've got people who suffer anti-semitic ri , feelings , there 's lot of erm multi-ra , ethnic majorities who cover on this programme , and I think that issue has to be looked at as well . |
| 13 | I come from a military family , that is to say a family that has always followed the drum , and probably had to carry it too . |
| 14 | I am reminded of Letterman 's tennis because as I stroll through the grounds of the club , waiting for the arrival of my transcripts , I come upon a red earth tennis court . |
| 15 | You come down a steep hill from . |
| 16 | So now can you see how politically , there is a kind of political subtext to this section erm as I say you can only follow it so far down a road then you come to a dead end but I think it 's there and you ca n't really ignore it , the political subtext . |
| 17 | ‘ Go across the drawbridge and you come to a heavy door … |
| 18 | Upstairs , walk past the monks ' cells , until you come to a massive door . |
| 19 | When you come across a faint track alongside a wire fence on the right follow it . |
| 20 | It 's not often you come across a good Bordeaux ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You come from a violent city like LA to what you think will be a nice peaceful place and what happens ? |
| 22 | You come from a rich country . |
| 23 | If you come from a long line of octogenarians , then clearly you will need to work out the sums on the basis of the next 20 years or longer . |
| 24 | If you come from a certain town or region , you will know what the different voices mean better than someone who comes from outside because you 've learned the code . |
| 25 | You scum of the earth de , de , de , de , de , de , de , de you should only have that attitude if you come from a deprived childhood |
| 26 | You come from a musical family … |
| 27 | When you come from a big family , as I do , erm yo you can have any size of wedding as long as the right people are there , anybody gets excluded it 's er to be horrendous ! |
| 28 | Anne ‘ s quick wit made her popular and one of the women said admiringly , ‘ You can tell you come from a big family , girl , the way you come out with the wisecracks . ’ |
| 29 | It looks alright on the surface , you 're not going through a hassle at the moment , and our memories are short , fortunately and once we come into a calm patch the hassles of yesterday are quickly forgotten . |
| 30 | We come to a spatio-temporal individual or particular , but not one which is an ordinary thing . |