Example sentences of "come [prep] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She hoped it would throw Maurin off guard , persuade him she had come for a little of his flirtatious conversation at the least , a few more questions about Durance and Sabine Jourdain at the most . |
| 2 | Carwyn desperately wanted to come through a few heats of the Pipeline Masters . |
| 3 | The son of Caerleon is a progressive type , apparently certain to come of a few pounds for that introduction , and should be good enough to take the Queen 's Own Yorkshire Dragoons Stakes . |
| 4 | Yes and he 's very , very difficult to feed himself , to get the food in because , you know , he liked to come in a half past ten and bully me to cook things for him that 's why sometimes I used to run up to bed and pretend I was asleep . |
| 5 | Within the last few years , physicists have come within a few thousandths of a degree of absolute zero using a new technique called laser entrapment . |
| 6 | And then we go back to the point which Mr Cunnane wanted to raise and they 've had their lunchtime discussions , see whether you 've come to a some form of agreement or resolution on that . |
| 7 | So , a victory for Oxford United ; it came after a few of the supporters had left the ground , it came in injury time — Oxford United one , Portsmouth nil , reporting on the match , a very happy Nick Harris . |
| 8 | The bad news came within a few days ; there was no place available to him at Oxford this year in the Martinmas term . |
| 9 | As she came within a few yards of it , however , a shudder passed down its spine , and it rolled over , showing its face to the sleet . |
| 10 | In any case , how could she look into his eyes and convince him she would n't touch him with a ten-foot pole when every time he came within a few feet of her she quivered inside , remembering the fierce and all too brief pressure of his mouth on hers ? |
| 11 | Everyone of the gang was known to the police and the first arrests came within a few days : |
| 12 | Last autumn he came within a few minutes of death when he slashed his wrists with a razor blade . |
| 13 | Jock Lewes came in a few days later with a different tale to tell . |
| 14 | The reply came in a few minutes ago listing ten different countries with which he does business . ’ |
| 15 | A new chairman came in a few months ago . |
| 16 | Perhaps the most fitting tribute to Billy Turner came from a former Palace Manager , Jack Tresadern . |
| 17 | There was a happy burble of voices which came from a few children discussing some design they were doing . |
| 18 | Gamekeeper John Bosher returning to the Blenheim estate wood where 10 years ago he came across a half decomposed body . |
| 19 | But my hunch proved right , I came across a few likely looking names and phone numbers and eventually I found a breeder in Bow , East London , who had several barn owls , all brothers and sisters , who would be the perfect training age for me . |
| 20 | As we turned another corner we came across a few villagers handling copra . |
| 21 | Bearing in mind that if we do have the whole house then people are only coming for a few days or or even one night could no they had somewhere to stay . |
| 22 | and if you 're coming for a few days you 've , you 've bag carrying and all this in the business |
| 23 | ‘ Cocoa ? ’ she offered , coming in a little time later , carrying a small tray with three enamel mugs of steaming beverage on it , and a plate of Marie biscuits . |
| 24 | In the case of the exclusive language of traditional hymns , it is better that congregations be helped to respect and accept such hymns as coming from a former age than that they be either inappropriately altered or abandoned altogether . |
| 25 | Could you come for a few hours each day , do you think ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Maybe he just sent the telegram and a letter will come after a few days , ’ Maggie tried to soothe . |
| 27 | His complete acceptance of the ‘ protest ’ in ‘ Protestant ’ did not come till a few years later when some leading members of his Mount Merrion , Belfast , congregation insisted that he object to the Church 's ‘ street corner boy ’ activities of picketing the Irish Presbyterian Church General Assembly . |
| 28 | As there is no soil at all on this rocky islet vegetation is almost non-existent , but we did come across a few tenacious rock plants growing from the guano in rock crevices . |
| 29 | Here she continues : ‘ A Mr. Lewis , an historic painter from London , come for a few weeks on a jaunt of pleasure , played on the piano for us . |
| 30 | Their seeds had remained dormant underground for years or come from a few surviving specimens . |