Example sentences of "come [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , it had come on to rain , and the prospect of arriving home soaking wet to find my housemates Trisha and Brian curled up in a post-coital stupor in front of the TV was more than I could bear , so I swallowed my pride and went back inside . |
| 2 | There is another possibility that they have n't mentioned because the book has n't come on to deal with it yet , but you should know what it is . |
| 3 | You 're supposed to come on to parade with clean boots , Jones ! ( condition 3 ) |
| 4 | Hire equipment needs to come on to site at an early stage ( see list ) . |
| 5 | I think education committee is quite capable of making those kinds of decisions , and members , erm , that er , are representing rural areas are allowed to come along to education committee , and I think that 's perhaps the better way to , to go along those lines . |
| 6 | She seemed to have come down to earth , leaving behind the soap-opera image that she had once appeared to be caught up in . |
| 7 | With a little sigh , a feeling of having come down to earth again , Merrill went to find Richard . |
| 8 | Almost dancing on air , Laura had barely come down to earth when she found herself sitting beside him in a small riverside restaurant . |
| 9 | ‘ I was very happy when I learned I had got a place at Oxford and my mum still has n't come down to earth yet . |
| 10 | I do n't think I 've come down to earth since the day I met her . ’ |
| 11 | I do n't know maybe it may just be come down to sort of the individual theatres I suppose |
| 12 | He used to come down to school in the afternoon sometimes , to stay a while talking generally , and I found his visits very helpful . |
| 13 | You 've got to come down to reality and plan out your life , look at where you 're coming from and where you 're going . |
| 14 | But , to come down to earth again , Schott 's glass ceramics are just as much at home in the kitchen , where extremes of temperature leave our ‘ Ceran ’ hobs cold . |
| 15 | Meredith supposed Harriet would be fully committed socially over the Christmas period but she wanted to offer some token of hospitality , so she went across the road after breakfast and asked if Harriet would like to come over to lunch . |
| 16 | We do not , of course , wish to gloat , having come close to liquidation many times ourselves , but it has to be said , WELL DONE , SIDCOMBE ! |
| 17 | The revolt had come close to success and it may well have shaken Henry II 's confidence in his son 's ability to rule Aquitaine . |
| 18 | However , in contrast to Nicaragua , where the economy has come close to collapse , in El Salvador both the additional costs of the war and increasing indebtedness have been counterbalanced by very large injections of aid from the United States . |
| 19 | Some of the last-gasp attempts to save the Nationalist governments that were considered in Washington — with the wilder arpeggios such as encouraging the fragmentation of China or even , apparently , a series of punitive air strikes against the Chinese communists ( not to mention the sheer fantasy of creating ten new Chinese armies in six months ) — originated in the Far Eastern division of the State Department , and in fact the Administration , says Blum , had come close to re-intervention in the Chinese civil war on the mainland , but backed away at the last minute when it discovered that there was no viable force left to support . |
| 20 | Few Yek were happy at sea , and a ship-borne invasion of Y'frike years earlier had come close to failure at one point because the reinforcements delivered to its shores had been so weakened by the effects of their voyage . |
| 21 | First time I went to Norwich alone , he come up to school and got me out at half past nine in the morning . |
| 22 | My father come up to school , he come up there on a bike to see the schoolmaster and get me out to get a load of hay home . |
| 23 | Although Fletcher admitted that England have not come up to standard over the last three months , he also believes that a poor itinerary and a lack of turning pitches in English domestic cricket is largely to blame for the string of dismal performances . |
| 24 | Look , when you 've finished eating I think you 'd better come up to cabin 10 and get it sorted out . |
| 25 | The only way to town is come up to way |
| 26 | Mhairi McMillan , a counsellor at St Andrews University , said : ‘ There may be a sense of glamour attached to a tutor or a lecturer for somebody who 's maybe just come up to university or working their way through . |
| 27 | What had he come up to Jubilee Wood for ? |
| 28 | ( One notable exception is the University of London , which recently issued guidelines on what was acceptable in a house officer 's post and warned that jobs failing to come up to standard would not be recognised . ) |
| 29 | SAFETY measures at a Darlington car park failed to come up to standard after tests , it has been revealed . |
| 30 | SAFETY measures at a Darlington car park failed to come up to standard after vital tests , it has been revealed . |