Example sentences of "[adv] come [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have successfully come through a war . |
| 2 | Just as they approached the doors , he stopped as if he had suddenly come to a decision . |
| 3 | In alluding to Ronald Duncan and The Criterion , he was referring to a proposal by Duncan — with whom I had been in correspondence , though I did not meet him until after the war — that I should write for The Townsman ( a magazine which he edited from an ancient mill situated in a valley on the Devon/Cornish border , where I was later to live and write about ) , an article analysing the reasons why The Criterion , after flourishing for seventeen years , had so suddenly come to an end . |
| 4 | Well , that was when it had all come to a head . |
| 5 | and as soon as you 've parked , they 've obviously come from a home somewhere or from the hospital or whatever |
| 6 | A brilliant student 's seven-year battle for compensation after being crippled for life , has finally come to an end with a record award of £1.2 million . |
| 7 | If you 've just come down a hill with your brakes on , |
| 8 | ‘ Yes and no , ’ mumbled Hyacinth , to whom the news of the arrest and incarceration of the chairman of the YCs had just come as a surprise . |
| 9 | As this issue of The Lifeboat goes to press the 16th International Lifeboat Conference has just come to an end in Oslo . |
| 10 | It looked as if the serenity of the evening had just come to an end ! |
| 11 | Her blonde curls looked as if she had just come from a hairdresser rather than from the hand basin in her own bedroom which was where she had washed her hair this morning . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've just come from a session with Gladys Brown , a strange woman who has the room next to Meryl Armitage 's . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've just come from a meeting with Bobby Anscombe . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've just come from a crossroads called Quatre Bras , sir . |
| 15 | Most of which I know some of them have already come to an end like Julie 's E S |
| 16 | Over the past 10 years we have already come from a situation where road runners were getting virtually nothing from the sport , to a far more respected and well-provided role . ’ |
| 17 | Hyundai 's S-Coupe has always come at a bargain price — but until now it lacked the performance to match its sporty looks . |
| 18 | A spokesman for the DTI acknowledged that the department had been broadly aware of the situation at Leyland-DAF in September but insisted that news of the receivership had still come as a surprise . |
| 19 | Although not unexpected , his death had still come as a shock . |
| 20 | Looking up at the sky , at the myriad pinpricks of light , it seemed to him that he could feel the turning earth beneath his feet and that time had mysteriously come to a stop , fusing into one moment the past , the present and the future ; the ruined abbey , the obstinately enduring artefacts of the last war , the crumbling cliff defences , the windmill and the power station . |
| 21 | West Germany : ‘ the nuclear construction programme of the German utilities has practically come to an end for the time being . ’ |
| 22 | Even after your job has clearly come to an end , you need to beware of breaking obligations that remain legally binding upon you , such as the duty not to disclose trade secrets . |
| 23 | The itinerant ticker of classic gritstone , steeped in the lure and legend of this most elemental of climbing forms , must sooner or later come to an end of the unusual circuit of well-publicised , polished testpieces and crowded crags . |
| 24 | The age of those mighty , entrepreneurial artistic directors has probably come to an end . |
| 25 | Back at Wotton-under-Edge in Gloucestershire the Congregational Tabernacle 's Mutual Improvement Society resolved in November 1893 ‘ that the time has now come for an Organ to be obtained for the Tabernacle Services ’ . |
| 26 | Matters have now come to a head . |
| 27 | To this must be added the 157,000 temporary houses ( the provision of temporary houses has now come to an end ) , the repair of war-damaged property , and the use of huts and service camps . |
| 28 | You are told that all these ritual practices have now come to an end , for the coming of Jesus makes all ceremonial redundant . |
| 29 | It 's twenty to twelve , erm Y D P just really erm having now come to an end . |
| 30 | We are pleased that a dispute in which the current management of pergamon Press has played no part has now come to an end . |