Example sentences of "come [adv prt] in [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As the sun began to set over Auckland they took a short flight on a tiny seaplane , and the gold light enhanced the aerial view of Auckland as the lights began to come on in white wood houses , skyscrapers , hotels .
2 What 's happened is that policy makers 've shifted the emphasis instead of protecting tariffs they 're protected using long long tariff barriers right which are a lot more invisible to er , to G A T T do n't come under erm G A T T regulations , what those tariffs do nevertheless , tariffs have , have come down in manufactured goods right , erm , since the second world war when G A T T was er , was established .
3 It was so hot that Perdita would have liked to have worn shorts or a dress , but her mosquito bites had come up in huge red bumps and were oozing and itching like mad , so she settled for her pale pink jeans and a dark blue shirt .
4 He carries only nine pounds more than in 1992 and despite being plagued by a wind problem since that success , has come back in great style after being ‘ tubed . ’
5 How things went with them from then on we know from what has come out in public .
6 In voting overwhelmingly on Nov. 14 for the debate , the Supreme Soviet had come out in open revolt against its legislation being either ignored or countermanded because of administrative chaos and the so-called " war of laws " with the republics .
7 The next step would be to come out in public and call a Press conference .
8 He had been following the narrow forest path downhill for some leagues , the trees soaring ever taller overhead , so that the sunlight came down in muted bars between the leaves .
9 These girls came down in special trains : it was n't just the odd few .
10 ‘ Then , ’ continued the barmaid , as Cornelius sniffed on appreciatively , ‘ this meteor came down in old Jack Spar 's field , least as how they thought it were a meteor .
11 Two more came along in quick succession , 1lb 7oz and 1lb-11 , then all activity ceased .
12 Er we also had one very large , cumbersome machine which carried things like lighting and breathing apparatus , and heavy lifting gear and all the other bits and pieces of rescue equipment , which came along in slow time , now that has been improved upon no end , and they 've got a very modern equipment now for that , erm er modern in the sense that new , new pieces have come on , cutting equipment with hydraulic jaws which er just slice through the top of a car roof , whereas we had to cut it with a hacksaw perhaps , or , or another metal saw , we , these can be done with just like cutting through cheese .
13 When the much more rigid ‘ composite ’ constructions came in in Victorian times one or two of the racing clippers were built with hulls of deliberately controllable rigidity .
14 The advance guard of men on mules and horses came up in regular lines but as soon as they got near they dashed up at full gallop , shouting and brandishing their weapons , each man shrieking out how many men he had killed ; and then they wheeled round to make room for others .
15 In the interviews themselves the topics sometimes came up in different sequences according to the way that the particular interview developed .
16 In the good , old-fashioned days text was sent off to be typeset and came back in long strips called galleys .
17 Namawar and had been sent to hell-fire , came back in loud and strong .
18 They came out in great numbers to support us despite our poor early season form , and I 'm confident we 'll get it right against Dundalk on Sunday . ’
19 They came out in great numbers to support us despite our poor early season form , and I 'm confident we 'll get it right against Dundalk on Sunday . ’
20 But the words came out in pearly prose and the answers washed musically into tape-recorders and microphones and notebooks .
21 The words came out in sharp little machine-gun bursts .
22 I 'm gon na be ashamed of driving it again now , I was getting to a point where I was thinking oh my god , Christine came out in black all along here she said , er what 's that ?
23 On Thursday night Chris came out in dark red blotches .
24 I lined up for the 100 metres at the AAA Championships and , lo and behold , everybody came out in similar outfits !
25 J. D. Hooker was one of the first scientists to be informed of Darwin 's new theory back in the 1840s , and he now came out in public support of the Origin of Species .
26 She grimaced as her voice , unused for some time by the sound of it , came out in hoarse , rusty spurts .
27 His breath came out in quick tortured gasps .
28 This last came out in true McAllister style , satiric and sure , another way in which father and daughter were alike .
29 The thinking was done in English and the answers came out in English right or wrong .
30 ‘ Well , they have to hide the Cruise missiles somewhere , ’ I said , zipping up my fleece-lined leather jacket against the rain which had started coming down in ominous big spits .
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