Example sentences of "come [adv] [to-vb] in " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The other side of the coin was the pressure which could be exerted upon such foreign soldiers if they attempted to come home to vote in an election in opposition to a man of influence . |
| 2 | I mean unfortunately the authority in days gone by has benefited from the scheme in the sense that the extra , extra money in service in truth , the revenue was there , erm , the chickens have come home to roost in the sense that it 's , the tables have turned the other way , and I mean , gone are the days where , when we 're least worried out that impact that , that , that much more of our er , of our budget . |
| 3 | By the end of 1915 , the British Army in France , thus reinforced , had risen to 38 divisions , more than 3 million men having come forward to serve in ‘ Kitchener 's Army ’ . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , among the middle class , there were few institutions so revered as the schools , and their influence in clubs was held to be of great consequence as reformers regularly called for public-school men to come forward to work in the clubs . |
| 5 | This trade unionism came eventually to believe in the need for parliamentary representation to safeguard its interests , and from the start determined the course of political intervention . |
| 6 | Gradually other women finished the insides of their houses and came outside to work in the sunlight . |
| 7 | ‘ I was left with very little money , came here to live in Crow Court , because it is cheap . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm going to do what I came here to do in the first place . |
| 9 | Two crucial stages in this were the formation of an alliance with the Emperor Alexius I Comnenus of Byzantium against the Norman empire threatening to spread into Venice 's Adriatic and Byzantine Greece in the 1080s ; and the role Venice came increasingly to play in the crusading adventures of the twelfth century . |
| 10 | EPCC is an interdisciplinary centre , with people from backgrounds such as computer science , physics and engineering coming together to aid in the dissemination of this new technology , as well as to perform fundamental research into the correct way to build and use parallel computers . |
| 11 | This was immediately prior to the Nicholson ‘ star ’ era ; the wave of which he rode the crest was beginning to build and it is interesting to chronicle for a moment some of the events leading up to his ‘ discovery ’ as a major Hollywood personality — a hero of the age and one who , as we have seen , was much influenced by the existentialist prophecies of Kerouac , which were now , finally , coming home to roost in middle-class America and elsewhere . |
| 12 | It argues , in no uncertain terms , that levels of exploitation undreamed of outside the sweatshops of the Third World are coming home to roost in the depressed urban ghettos of the West . |
| 13 | A merger is defined to be a business combination in which , rather than one party acquiring control of another , the parties come together to share in the future risks and benefits of the combined entity . |
| 14 | Let us pass the word along and come together to fight in the only way left open to us — the way the church has always been meant to fight — behind enemy lines . |
| 15 | But mistaken loan decisions or pricing policies swiftly come home to roost in an organisation with a balance sheet of only a few hundred million . |