Example sentences of "come a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still to come a look at the opening shots in the Independent Enquiry into the fate of Rover 's Cowley works and the questions that Bicester 's friends of the earth say you must ask any candidate in the local elections . |
| 2 | Still to come a look at the day 's financial news and er sports news . |
| 3 | Still to come a look at the day 's sport , first financial report though in association with Barclay 's Bank for your financial needs . |
| 4 | Still to come a look at the day 's sport , and there 's a new signing for Oxford United . |
| 5 | There seemed to come a grunt from somewhere . |
| 6 | It so happened that the first person to come a cropper on the steps was the warden Jane Cartwright , who was a good deal younger and more agile than those in her care . |
| 7 | WHEN THE SIGNALS to cease battle had been exchanged , and there had come a respite in the noise , and the smoke was curling lazily into the blue where clouds flocked and billowed , the islanders fell back and took stock of their situation . |
| 8 | ‘ Along with the dominance of a masculine value system in art and art history has often come a blindness to female existence , even when the reality of women 's roles is well documented by the art of a given place or period ’ . |
| 9 | With the Scottish interests had come a stake in Border TV , which Lonrho kept . |
| 10 | Viruses have come a heck of a long way since we last took an in-depth look at anti-virus software back in November 1990 . |
| 11 | Lovers of freedom throughout the world looked to this vision with hope and it is with profound sadness that they see the vision momentarily dimmed , and with this dimming has come a confusion of purpose and a sense of despair that was never known before in America . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've come a hell of a long way , you know . |
| 13 | How come a club of United 's stature can no longer compete in the transfer market , and are now overshadowed by humble Blackburn when it comes to buying players ? |
| 14 | With improvements in educational technologies , more detailed understanding of how behaviour is controlled and developed , and a greater focus on curriculum planning has come a flood of new opportunities for people with learning difficulties . |
| 15 | With this effort to deploy support for the arts in New York has come a proliferation of arts alliances , organizations and advisory committee . |
| 16 | I 've come a cropper over this before , bemoaning the appalling performance of a 386/40 until I noticed that the tiny turbo light was off and , instead of running at 40MHz , the machine was running at 8MHz ! |
| 17 | Though they have done well in Germany and Belgium ( they now own one-tenth of all the office space in Brussels ) , Swedish investors have come a cropper in London . |
| 18 | Oxford again are a side with some scalps under their belts , Broughton Park , Solihull , Bury Hill — but you 've sometimes erm come a cropper against smaller sides have n't you ? |
| 19 | From out of the past came a memory of a quick cut home , down past the side of Deller 's and then out into Queen Charlotte 's Alley . |
| 20 | With this body-blow came a plea for understanding . |
| 21 | Then came a question on the size of the Balm of Gilead Fir in America and which sort of soil suited it best , ‘ for there is but one place , in England , where the trees live more than ten or twelve years . ’ |
| 22 | And with that acceptance came a kind of peace . |
| 23 | Above the chugging [ there was an air raid in progress ] came a kind of rhythmic panting — screeching … a kind of dragging-hopping , like a kangaroo in its death throes . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , that 's easy ! ’ came a chorus of approval . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's a right of way ! ’ came a chorus of protest . |
| 26 | ‘ Yeah ! ’ came a chorus of voices and suddenly Jeremiah Scrape was manhandled down to the river and thrown in , notebook and all . |
| 27 | The first , through Irons , came a minute from half-time when he hammered in an unstoppable drive after a good run into the penalty area by Harvey . |
| 28 | From the United States came reports of the battles on campus and in the south , and writers like jazz critic and Village Voice columnist Nat Hentoff ; from London came a critique of Wilson 's first stumbling days of power , a concern with the new politics of ecology , the black movement , Vietnam , Algeria , Cuba by then in the sixth year of revolutionary rule — the seizure of Burroughs 's The Naked Lunch by the Director of Public Prosecutions , R. D. Laing on ‘ Violence Masquerading as Love ’ , the campaign to legalize marijuana . |
| 29 | And with the thought came a spurt of irritation . |
| 30 | From the rectangle of hard , white light fifty feet away came a hubbub of shouts and catcalls . |