Example sentences of "come [prep] [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to that Meath had come off best when they accounted for Down in the 1990 league decider . |
| 2 | Think later , be about five o'clock or quarter to five , or something like that depends when it 's on , have to come in early if they want to have it with us . |
| 3 | ‘ The jetstream has come in earlier than expected , and the race to beat it is lost , ’ Neame admitted . |
| 4 | Were the vezir to come from other than their number , their hearts would turn from thee , and the business of thy government would become disordered . " |
| 5 | Furthermore , cohort studies in Britain show that the relation between a woman 's family size and the family size in which she is brought up is positive , although not very strong : childless women are more likely to be single children themselves , mothers of large families tend to come from larger than average families themselves , even when other influences are controlled for statistically ( Kiernan 1989a ) . |
| 6 | And erm you know er sometimes I 'm sorry that it 's come to this because like this family er they made a bomb out of it we 're not saying that we 're not denying them that at all . |
| 7 | If I had n't been too dumb I could have come to Mars-U as well , then I would n't have been alone . |
| 8 | Worldwide , the economy has continued to come on stronger than almost anyone forecast , which is why European central bankers agreed to throw another brick at it yesterday . |
| 9 | It was silly to have come at all if she was going to feel so shaky and helpless . |
| 10 | In real life , too , there was an intention ( perhaps stronger on her side than his ) that he should marry his landlady 's daughter , but nothing came of that because , on returning to Johannesburg , Herbert met Grace , who was in fact to become his first.wife and John 's mother . |
| 11 | Nothing much came of this until he was summoned to an interview at the Foreign Office with Kenneth Cohen , an MI6 officer he had known in Hamburg . |
| 12 | Some of the rather younger Lutheran composers — Hieronymus Praetorius ( 1560–1629 ) , Hans Leo Hassler ( 1564–1612 ) , Christoph Demantius ( 1567–1643 ) , and Michael Praetorius ( c. 1571–1621 ) ( unrelated to Hieronymus ) — came under Venetian as well as Lassus 's influence , although only one of them , Hassler , is known to have visited Venice ( 1585 ) and studied with Andrea Gabrieli . |
| 13 | His Nan always gets lollies in for the kids and they came in more than useful this time . ’ |
| 14 | We were heading for the Westerman Islands on the far south-east corner of Iceland and a front came in faster than Robin Knox-Johnston , the skipper , had anticipated . |
| 15 | Likewise there was little ‘ church like ’ about Whitefield 's Tabernacle on the Tottenham Court Road to which C. S. Horne came in 1903 while the Wesleyan mission at Ancoats , Manchester , had an eclectic design consisting of Tudor half-timbers plus towers . |
| 16 | That came from more than a few crossed twigs and dry leaves . |
| 17 | HTV 's objective is to have half its revenues coming from other than advertising sales . |
| 18 | Swindon must have thought their lucky break was coming at last when they won a penalty against Aston Villa at the County Ground … and took the lead thanks to Paul Bodin … |
| 19 | It is not using the 33MHz and 40MHz silicon Texas Instruments just announced ( UX No 384 ) , but will come in higher than both those rates . |
| 20 | We should have a full house for Portsmouth which will come in more than handy . ’ |
| 21 | Noreen would come on first as before with her song — and then be joined by ‘ Mary ’ who would take the melody while Noreen harmonised and then Maria would conclude with a solo — usually ‘ The Last Rose of Summer ’ — and they would finish together with ‘ Let Him Go Let Him Tarry ’ , another of the O'Neil family songs which both knew backwards . |
| 22 | It may not come at all if Labour wins . |
| 23 | A class performing simple work that has been selected to show their strong point will come across better than elaborate material inadequately performed . |
| 24 | And you you come off worse than anyone else and er but there 's no real way of speeding that up , they ca n't give |
| 25 | They come in twos when they 're out for trouble . |
| 26 | Most Chief Education Officers say they come across fewer than one case a year , thus supporting the official line that it ‘ hardly ever happens ’ . |
| 27 | But DiCillo comes over looser than his mentor , less mannered , more immediately likeable . |
| 28 | If your parent has savings invested with a local authority , from which tax is deducted at the basic rate , she can only get some of this tax back if the tax , together with any other tax that is paid ( e.g. under Pay As Your Earn ) , comes to more than the proper tax on her total income . |