Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has three children , one under the age of one , and has to come up four flights of stairs to her home many times a day . |
| 2 | I represent a crime , and if Eric was to come back stirring things up The Truth About Frank might come out . |
| 3 | Donald came down two hours ago , and would you believe it , Bisset will not come to marry them . ’ |
| 4 | The aircraft , worth millions of pounds , was on a routine training mission when it came down six miles from its base at RAF Upper Heyford.Eyewitnesses have described seeing the plane trailing smoke and flames just before it crashed . |
| 5 | Which floor would the elevator ( or lift ) stop at , if it started from street level , went up 4 floors , came down 3 floors , then went up 2 floors again ? |
| 6 | Which floor would the elevator ( or lift ) stop at , if it started from street level , went up 4 floors , came down 3 floors , then went up 2 floors again ? |
| 7 | Tired , too : she lay awake at night , thinking , and came down several mornings so pale that Auntie Lou wanted to go to the chemist and buy her a tonic . |
| 8 | Hence the possibility of saying , when neither speaker nor addressee is at home : ( 83 ) I came over several times to visit you , but you were never there So we must append another clause to our gloss , namely : " or motion towards the home-base maintained at CT by either speaker or addressee " . |
| 9 | Acting in line with his belief that ‘ the people who are closest to the work really do know it better ’ , Mr Welch came up two years ago with an anti-bureaucratic device called ‘ the work-out . ’ |
| 10 | Er , and this came up several years ago , when this council went into conversation with the Goddard Estate , and the Goddard Estate wishing to dispose of our assets . |
| 11 | Tobermore came back 11 minutes later to level the score with a brilliant kick by Mark Patterson from the edge of the box to the right corner of the net . |
| 12 | Her mum 's 30-year-old wedding dress , altered to fit Joanne , was ruined at the cleaners and came back two inches shorter than when it went . |
| 13 | My dogs were frantic , and so was I , I hauled one last time , the line came back two centimetres , the hook came free and the dogs roared away . |
| 14 | Branwell came back two weeks later , his face white , his clothes dirty . |
| 15 | Tony came back 10 days later looking happier , and reported that he had checked the newspapers regularly and had sent off several applications for jobs . |
| 16 | Fellow of Balliol , went to Harvard in his late thirties , came back five years ago . |
| 17 | ‘ One fishermen told me he saw seals in the area where he shot 20 creels and when he came back 20 minutes later they were all robbed . |
| 18 | He came back several times , quite convinced that only a little greater effort would supply him with the treat he had in mind . |
| 19 | One or two families came back several times , and we exchanged cards and news at Christmas . |
| 20 | When he came back several minutes later , he was still smiling . |
| 21 | I have n't stayed in for about two months , about eight weeks , not one night , and he goes , ‘ I think you should stay in at least one ’ , and I goes , ‘ If you think I 'm staying in then you get lost , because I 'm not staying in this flaming house ’ , and he goes , ‘ You 're staying when I tell you to ’ , and I goes , ‘ I wo n't ’ , and I walked out and came back ten minutes later and said , ‘ I 'm going out , all right ? ’ and he goes , ‘ Okay ’ , and he give me some money to go out and come up here [ to the youth club ] . |
| 22 | We had that one nil down and we thought that was it , there was and then they came back seven goals |
| 23 | But he came back three days later crying his eyes out and begging me to forgive him , he looked like a helpless puppy . |
| 24 | TABLE-topping Imperial Pottery and Alexandra Pottery came out joint winners in the latest bi-annual TNT awards . |
| 25 | Yes , well it 's Sunday night and they 're always fighting and that and he , he came out four rows of the bow wi , they were twelve inches square he kicked three of them in ! |
| 26 | Old Plumpton appeared in his white trousers and string vest and the four boys came out five minutes later , not looking keen at all . |
| 27 | United came out all guns blazing … |
| 28 | ‘ Actually , it was a terribly hard decision to make , because my album just came out two months ago here and the only negative thing is that I ca n't be here to promote it . |
| 29 | What had offended the Government was an issue of the paper which came out two days before Christmas 1967 . |
| 30 | He had seen men come and go ; squads of them went through their training and came out bright-eyed WOP-AIRs thirsting to get on to an aerodrome to finish their training and then into action . |