Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had spies out , to be sure , but so far no definite reports had come in other than that Balliol and the English army , now unfortunately reinforced by the Highland and other Scots adherents , had left Perth ten days before , cavalry and foot marching southwards by Auchterarder and the Allan Water , to cross Teith by the Ford of Keir and Forth by the Fords of Frew , presumably to avoid any opposition at the vulnerable Stirling Bridge ; which conjecture had set Alexander Ramsay worrying about Doune Castle and Mariot Randolph , not to mention her brother raising his levies thereabouts . |
| 2 | Jim competes as a veteran in Nordic events in Scotland and still manages to come in 3rd or 4th overall . |
| 3 | The Rolls was to come in useful when Gabrielle had an idea to get them both working . |
| 4 | Try to come down nice and straight my K is n't very good I bet you could do a better one than that . |
| 5 | And this man used to go up , do you know I 've heard my father say he 's come up three or four times a week and help him and when they slaughtered the things they used to have the slaughterhouse down the piste years ago , as I 'm talking about sixty , sixty , seventy years ago , sixty years ago , where they used to slaughter the stuff , you see , down the piste and this was the Christmas show this was , all these hindquarters of beef . |
| 6 | The landlord is not prepared to come up front and say that 's what he 's doing . |
| 7 | Used to come up purple as well as pink . |
| 8 | It was the worst thing she had ever said to him , but it had come out unpremeditated and could not be unsaid . |
| 9 | You walk into a sewer , full of rats , and expect to come out nice and clean . |
| 10 | I lost so much weight in there , although most of it was down to worry , stress : ‘ My baby 's going to come out this and that . ’ |
| 11 | There er twenty one Sharon and I think that might be a bit on the generous side so you 've got to come back next and do the weather forecast for me is that all right ? |
| 12 | The sledges came down first and were loaded with tents , dog food and our kit . |
| 13 | Normally , Pooley was concerned to hide his upper-class origins from the general public as well as from his police confrères , but occasionally Eton came in useful when he wanted to discomfit a member of the public who was treating him like PC Plod . |
| 14 | ‘ It was said that this was the place where the tide came in first and went out last , but this recession has barely affected us so far ’ , announces Richard Needham , minister of state for Northern Ireland . |
| 15 | These Golf tickets came in 1st and 2nd class as well , the example I have of the 1st class issue is No. 10 , hardly worth printing . |
| 16 | Mac came in fifth but with the same time as Richard , the Frenchman , and after a British protest he was allowed to go forward as the track had a nine-lane straight . |
| 17 | TELEVISION viewers waiting for the result of the 3.10 race at Doncaster last Wednesday heard director Bob Gardam called Lord Howard d'Warden an ‘ Old Fart ’ after his lordship wandered in front of the camera and Mr Gardam thinking he was safe in the privacy of the TV scanner , for some reason came over loud and clear on the course 's PA system . |
| 18 | And the message came over loud and clear , from more than 100 people , that they were opposed to the development . |
| 19 | A melancholy came over Arty when Vincent left . |
| 20 | In the most potentially serious accident , a ski-rack came off worse than the out-of-control 10-year-old who hit it . |
| 21 | Unlike the last occasion they ran into each other , this time Sheehy came off worse and his plane was grounded as a result of the damage . |
| 22 | I went in for a tackle with Brian Mooney and I came off worse because I broke my right leg . |
| 23 | Flora came up close and mouthed , ‘ My flu-u-u-te . |
| 24 | As the big vessel came up tense and turgid I thrust in the needle and injected the adrenalin . |
| 25 | The florist came up earlier but she was asleep , and he did n't even come into the room , just put his head round the door and left her some flowers ; the night nurse has put them out in the corridor . |
| 26 | And we came and took the cows down and we came back weary or what ! |
| 27 | He washed his face in cold water and came back red-eyed but awake . |
| 28 | Garvey 's voice came back warm and reassuring through the gloom , above Izzie 's struggling . |
| 29 | He came back elated and poured some wine for Jane and himself . |
| 30 | collapsed but each time came back good as new |