Example sentences of "[vb past] come [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I opened the lockers to pull out the kit but found that the top had come off a water container and half a gallon had spilt , soaking the tea bags and bursting the envelope which carried my documents . |
| 2 | Brandy was poured immediately , and ‘ On a side-board was placed for us , who had come off the sea , a substantial dinner , and a variety of wines . ’ |
| 3 | She 'd have to take off her thick blue jersey soon , and she could n't remember how many buttons had come off the shirt underneath , and it was sleeveless , and she had n't shaved her armpits since Philippa asked her to supper last week . |
| 4 | When he had come off the phone the night before and Erica had asked who it had been , he had replied , with a certain confidence and an audible distaste , ‘ Someone talking nonsense ’ . |
| 5 | His aerial had come off the chimney |
| 6 | I was too tired , only vaguely conscious that we had come off the canal bank and were angling down across a steep slope of stony ground to the rice-green flatness of the valley floor . |
| 7 | THE post-match critic who wondered if Hibs had come off the team bus moving backwards might have been guilty of allowing his cynicism to get the better of him , but there can be no-one at Easter Road this morning able to derive any satisfaction from the side 's performance at Ibrox . |
| 8 | The first indication of the direction his mind ( or what passed for it ) was moving had come at the beginning of the trial when he called in two other judges to help determine whether the free pardon that Meehan had been granted quashed his conviction . |
| 9 | Chairman Bob Bennett revealed that the new purge had come at the end of a three-hour committee meeting . |
| 10 | Perhaps part of the fascination of movies has always been that they trigger off so many memories but what is interesting about so much film-making in the 1920s is that movies are so closely associated with that age of the masses that had come at the end of one century and the beginning of another . |
| 11 | They had come on a sight-seeing visit and , of course , they had their cameras with them . |
| 12 | Etty with her friend Dolly Murchie , had come on the scene . |
| 13 | When he had come on the scene about fifteen years earlier he had been a spectacular hitter of a golf ball and a brilliant putter : a fearsome blend of talents in a golfer — if they combine regularly . |
| 14 | Two of the hotel functionaries had come on the scene . |
| 15 | She was in no hurry , and had made no plans to meet Rosie , since Francisco had come on the scene . |
| 16 | Perhaps , he said , the hijackers had come on the train . |
| 17 | She had come on an errand and was greeted by a mad woman , an amazon . |
| 18 | Another burst of applause announced the arrival of the Prince of Orange , who had come with a handful of staff officers . |
| 19 | Political will ( backed by force — as it had to be in the view of the highly ambivalent public reaction to the programme hitherto ) had come with a vengeance ( Gwatkin 1979 : 29 ) . |
| 20 | There was no sign of Haines , no one had come with a list of grievances , and Harold was able to give some of the assurances that I had urged upon him before the first dinner . |
| 21 | Advance indication of its impact in terms of austerity measures had come with the presentation of the railways budget on Feb. 25 , with reduced government support and a concomitant increase averaging 20 per cent in passenger fare prices . |
| 22 | It was the girl who had come with the policeman . |
| 23 | Most of the principals had come with the intention of delivering their manifestos , irrespective of the line of questioning . |
| 24 | Owen laboured over the living , mending them as best he could , and over the dead , making them ready for burial , until he fell and lay like dead beside the last of them , but still conscious and aware , and Adam and some of those who had come with the priest to their aid carried him away and bedded him in quietness in one of the cottages . |
| 25 | The last of the boxes were being transferred from the back of the truck now , carried by men who sweated under the effort despite the chill wind that had come with the onset of the night . |
| 26 | A chill wind had come with the onset of darkness and Magee pulled up the collar of his coat as protection against the breeze . |
| 27 | I felt like a Run , so I left my jacket near the Pole I 'd been at the day Diggs had come with the news , and tucked the catapult tightly between my cords and my belt . |
| 28 | That silent communication had come with the mention of her brother 's name , after all . |
| 29 | The principal catalyst behind this act was the fact that in September the wavering Châtelherault had come to a decision as a result of Cecil 's help in arranging the escape of his son Arran from France , and finally agreed to join the Lords of the Congregation , thus ending the uneasy situation in which the Hamiltons had dithered between two opposing forces . |
| 30 | But today she had come to a decision , she would tell Craig Grenfell to leave her house , his presence was beginning to disturb her , disrupt her life . |