Example sentences of "they come [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The switch worked : on the faces of both of them came down that twilight of solemnity , a most vulnerable condition , he had found , if rightly played upon . |
| 2 | But er But I 've known that story about the er about them coming up that way and they stayed at the the burnside at Dalvaine . |
| 3 | ‘ Silly , you know I 'm looking forward to them coming as much as you are . |
| 4 | ‘ They came over three hours ago and took it away . ’ |
| 5 | T R E company Molecule theatre which came originally from the Mermaid in They came here two or three times a year for seven or eight years and we use to pack 'em out . |
| 6 | They came here penniless and made a claim to the Minister of Justice . |
| 7 | ‘ Thing is , Barbs barged in at an inconvenient moment when my brothers were moving some stuff into my place , and they came over all paranoid and looked at her very old-fashioned , and while I know they would n't do anything to her , now she 's gone missing I ca n't help wondering . |
| 8 | I think obviously erm as they 've already shown when they came over last year , that they are very very big , very physical , and erm there are there are erm a fast pacy outfit , but erm I think erm obviously with the players that are selected , that we can obviously cope with that . |
| 9 | Only two or three a day and they came dead slow round the bend in case there were sheep on the track . |
| 10 | She just put a dash of bleach in the water and they came up lovely . |
| 11 | Alas , they came too late to do the wounded agency , or the arts , much good . |
| 12 | Throughout the spawning the Scats paid no attention to the eggs , being gently nudged away if they came too close . |
| 13 | He did not feel so hostile to them as he did to the ravens , and merely ignored them , overflying them if they came too close but not behaving more aggressively than that . |
| 14 | After a ritual distribution of chocolate and biscuits — they came in handy later — we wheeled out of the Kathmandu Guest House and into the demolition derby of old Kathmandu . |
| 15 | Who would bath them when they came in filthy . |
| 16 | It 's a little like listening to those debates in parliament where parliament vote themselves extra salaries and I feel very uncomfortable in this process , I thought I might be coming here this morning to disagree with my own group , or those members of them that do n't agree with me , perhaps joined with the conservatives in opposing this motion , but I find in fact that everybody is saying oh let's put up the er , the heading , I feel very uncomfortable with this having spent six months in the budget review , criticising officers up hill and down dale every time that they exceeded their budget , having told them that either they balance their budget or that they came in next year with a budget with no more than a one and a half percent increase , or their successors would be doing it for us . |
| 17 | SUDBURY Wanderers ' promotion hopes received a set back last night when they came off second best in a seven goal thriller at Hadleigh . |
| 18 | There , in that picture ’ — Myeloski took a photograph from the pile and put it on the top — ‘ they came along that river-bank . |
| 19 | Not only did the idea come too late , he wrote , not only did the discipline come too late , not only did the resolution of individual problems come too late , but they came so late that I was not even aware of their lateness , and so they were doubly false and doubly useless and doubly meaningless . |
| 20 | Tim and Butch beat the ferns angrily with their guns as they hunted for her , and once they came so close that Mary 's heart almost stopped beating . |
| 21 | They came back empty-handed . |
| 22 | Went up there the following day and they came back armed with all sorts of things — knives and cudgels — and they went up there and a real fight developed . |
| 23 | He and Danny Kirwan were sort of ‘ kidnapped ’ after a gig by this young Munich ‘ jet set ’ crowd ; they disappeared for three days and when they came back that was it . |
| 24 | We had that one nil down and we thought that was it , there was and then they came back seven goals |
| 25 | ‘ They came back loaded with stuff . |
| 26 | They came back full of glee , raving about it and making me quite jealous and determined to ascend the peak a.s.a.p. , which I did — and they were right . |
| 27 | They did last when did they come in last week ? |
| 28 | Russells Hall pupils ' comments were along the lines of ‘ Ca n't they come back this afternoon ? ’ but also included : ‘ Dipak can draw well ’ and ‘ Marcelle thinks I 'm a really good writer . ’ |
| 29 | At Cheltenham , they recoup early losses with a late hat-trick of winners ; at Brighton , they come badly unstuck ; and at Redcar they pull off a major coup , smuggling suitcase-loads of money on to a 7–1 shot past the eagle eye of the bookies . |
| 30 | To pick up a well they come here one afternoon to pick up a car . |