Example sentences of "come [prep] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The biggest mover on the chart is Ambra , which has come from nowhere to take third place in the table of units shipped . |
| 2 | ‘ That was super stuff , ’ he crowed after his Lions had come from behind to end Swindon 's unbeaten start to the season . |
| 3 | This time round the result was the same and might have been even more decisive had Ian Woosnam and Nick Faldo not come from behind to salvage a halved match against Curtis Strange and Tom Kite . |
| 4 | ‘ I imagine it is impossible for just anyone to come in here to see your work , as I have ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ We have to come in here to look at the picture . |
| 6 | And then it twists , and like a small office , and when when I were there , after Michael had shown it me and Colin , he says oh , he says , er I 'm come in here to get get out of way , and you know , he was like telling me , I thought I do n't want to be a fiddle , because it 's alright telling Colin , the boys |
| 7 | Thirteen of the 19 Liberal Democrat MPs were in the chamber — outnumbering both Tory and Labour MPs — and half of them had come in just to get on the cameras , he said . |
| 8 | It was midwinter but one of those strange warm days that seemed to come from nowhere to tell you that spring is n't really far away . |
| 9 | It was obviously good of her to have given up an afternoon — perhaps a precious afternoon in these days when all time was precious — ‘ to come from afar to open the bazaar ’ . |
| 10 | Corsie had to come from behind to take the opening set when Gourlay moved 6-4 ahead and then laid the shot he required to take the set on the seventh end . |
| 11 | Somebody was telling me the Rocky was on R5 the other week & said that when he was with Arsenal & they won the league at Liverpool in the last few minutes , Arsenal were 13 ( ? ) points clear at the new year but still had to come from behind to overtake Liverpool ! ! ! |
| 12 | HEINEKEN League First Division leaders Swansea had to come from behind to claim a 25–13 win over lowly Aberavon and maintain their 100 per cent record . |
| 13 | Internazionale had to come from behind to draw with Bari , while Sampdoria beat Verona with a goal by GianLuca Vialli ( 16 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ They stood up pretty well considering we lost a 10-0 lead and then had to come from behind to win . ’ |
| 15 | I arranged to come over here to do the research and a name that came up again and again was Munro — Brigadier Dougal Munro . |
| 16 | All you had to do was telephone me , and I would have come at once to look after Kirsty . ’ |
| 17 | If it was otherwise , surely others would have come by now to find me ? ’ |
| 18 | Came in here to leave it , and … ’ |
| 19 | The front door was still locked and bolted — I 'd only used the back one since I 'd got here — and the keys were out the back , so I came in here to open these french windows . |
| 20 | ‘ I imagine he came in here to see his little friend Ellie again . |
| 21 | ‘ I came in here to get some tablets — ’ |
| 22 | While the SPD 's share of the vote fell by 7.5 per cent to 47.3 , the Right-wing Deutsche Volks-Union came from nowhere to rack up 5.1 per cent and a place in the local parliament . |
| 23 | The Searles , more than even Redgrave and Pinsent , became the heroes of millions of armchair TV viewers as they came from nowhere to win the coxed pairs in the last three strokes of the race . |
| 24 | The day 's most surprising result occurred in Washington DC , where Sharon Pratt Dixon , an outsider with little political experience , came from behind to score a surprise victory against four other contenders for the Democrat mayoral nomination . |
| 25 | After a hectic five laps Milling took second spot as Welshman Ian Lougher came from behind to take third , ahead of Alan Irwin . |
| 26 | McCann came from behind to take each of the first two sets before Robertson began to find his touch . |
| 27 | City twice came from behind to take a point against one of the second division 's form teams . |
| 28 | Brannen came from behind to snatch a World Student Games bronze medal at the same track last July and remains confident of overhauling Kruger , a training partner as well as chief rival , who amassed 4,012 points in the first five events . |
| 29 | The misery was shared by France 's Ville de Paris , who collided with Nippon and lost both the umpire 's verdict and most of the her bow , and New Zealand , who came from behind to cross the line 2ft in front of Il Moro di Venezia only to have the victory overturned when the umpires ruled she had brushed the finish-line buoy. 6univ |
| 30 | Burnley came from behind to beat Stockport 2-1 at Edgeley Park and could thank their new signing Ron Futcher for the equaliser after Edwards had given the home side the lead . |