Example sentences of "come [prep] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 Of course Nick likes — we both like — you to come for walks and talk to us .
2 If you are in two minds then give the candidate the benefit of the doubt and allow him or her to come for interview and elaborate on the details given on the form .
3 ‘ It 's Dana ; she promises to come for fittings and rehearsals but all I get are excuses .
4 ‘ And yet you must still believe in marriage , ’ she realised , ‘ or you would n't be so disgusted by the way I 'm supposed to have come between Florian and his wife . ’
5 That thing have come for Heather and Mike .
6 The fans had come for goals and it was Pompey who nearly supplied the first .
7 Well erm I 've just come off holiday and so I wo n't be entitled to none for the first four days .
8 In one instance , a response sheet was returned with a statement to the effect that the person had come off heroin and did not wish to be involved with anything concerning drugs ever again , including our own project .
9 If I started trying to come between husband and wife , and that is how it would be seen , I could hardly help anyone at all .
10 BY CAR from the North and Midlands down the M5 motorway — Somerset exits 21 to 26 — from London along the M4 to join the M5 ( or leave the M4 earlier to come through Bath or Bristol ) .
11 ‘ They 'd have to come through Liverpool and they would n't get very far , I can tell you .
12 All we asked was if it was possible for them to come through Halam and go down School Lane to pick to get an extra bus service at Halam .
13 Mrs E , 47 , dependent on tranquillisers , wants to come off medication but fears her original problems may occur .
14 Duroc had had to come of age and replace the older Duroc in the service of Nguyen Seth .
15 Kylie had come of age and become a sensuous woman , just like Monroe , whom she had always loved being likened to .
16 The technology has certainly come of age and whereas battery powered tools can never compete in power with mains operated ones , their increasing sales have made them the fastest developing aspect of woodworking technology today .
17 ‘ The industry has come of age and while professional management skills are imperative , you can only take training so far .
18 Hounslow then began to play like a team that were third in the table , forcing United 's mid-field backwards , only to come against Shepherd and Wilson in the centre of United 's defence , neither of whom put a foot wrong all afternoon .
19 Perhaps you could c come from you see , but you would n't be able to come near Amlwch or you could get to Amlwch and you could n't get to .
20 I suspect that the mulberry sauce — we are not told for what manner of meat it was intended — may have originated somewhere in Asia Minor and was perhaps brought to Italy after the Venetian conquest of Constantinople in 1204 A.D. It could equally have come via Persia or Afghanistan where , as in Turkey , the berries of the white or silk mulberry are dried to provide a supply for the winter .
21 But the publicity machine had come into operation and nothing would stop it .
22 ‘ When the entity of the mandate ended , ’ he said , ‘ two other states — Jewish and Arab — were to have come into existence but the Arab state did not .
23 Without it , modern democracy and republicanism could not have come into existence and scientific and technological progress would not have been possible ( and possibly slavery might not have been abolished ) .
24 It is no coincidence that mass schooling was invented at roughly the time when nation states had come into existence and the need arose to instil in their citizens the idea that the new entity had first claim on their loyalties .
25 The European Monetary Fund has not come into existence and the moves towards a common currency and a Community central bank are little nearer reality .
26 Ten Colleges of Advanced Technology ( CATs ) had come into existence and , from 1958 , the Diploma of Technology ( Dip .
27 Dewdrops , on the other hand , exist , not because they are durable , but because they have only just come into existence and have not yet had time to evaporate .
28 Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past .
29 To attack a new chair for the conduct of one organisation which has just come into being and to attack him as chair-designate for another organisation which has not yet come into being , seems extremely odd and unwise to me .
30 Had the referendum on devolution resulted in a sufficient majority voting in favour of devolution for Wales , then the Welsh Assembly would have come into being and would have assumed responsibility for the administration of all Welsh education outside the university .
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