Example sentences of "he [verb] come [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's technically a very good goalkeeper and he has come on in leaps and bounds in recent weeks , ’ he said . |
| 2 | He has come on in leaps and bounds this season . |
| 3 | To supplement work-outs , he has come up with a global best-practices programme . |
| 4 | Hick has a classic stance , but by the time the bowler has reached the crease he has come up into the familiar upright position with the bat raised . |
| 5 | He has come back with a bang , and the film of Jurassic Park opens in July , which will obviously help his sales . |
| 6 | While undergoing an operation his heart has stopped , but he has come back to life after having been declared dead and deposited in a coffin . |
| 7 | Unmistakably , though , he has come down on the side of the demonstrators and against Erich Honecker , the East German leader . |
| 8 | At the age of 47 , he has come out of his creative mid-life crisis and knows how to follow his stunning screen work . |
| 9 | He has come out into the road wearing slippers . |
| 10 | In common with some other contributors to Essays in Criticism he had come around to the view that the object of English should be to develop in students a " trained mind " rather than to produce " literary critics " or even " good readers " . |
| 11 | That she had always been in control before he had come on to the scene and turned everything upside-down . |
| 12 | A day or two later he had come round to my view and , after consultation with London , had decided to drop the matter . |
| 13 | But Wordsworth had already proposed in his Guide that the Lake District should be made ‘ a sort of national property in which every man has a right and interest who has an eye to perceive and a heart to enjoy ’ ; we can now see that , over a hundred years before his time , he had come up with the idea of a National Park . |
| 14 | He had come up with one idea , though , which had turned out to be a blinder at Christmastime . |
| 15 | Ankrah , commanding the Ghana army , was retired he was due for retirement anyway ( he had come up through the ranks and served in Burma ) . |
| 16 | He had come up against sterner stuff , however , and an assistant chief constable was called in to mediate and eventually agreed to send it on after the author urged that the editor of the magazine be allowed to decide ( fieldnotes 1988 ) . |
| 17 | D Rae new machine working well , but he had come up against MS-Works limitations . |
| 18 | He had come up behind them : thin , tall and tanned . |
| 19 | He had come up from the bottom and made it to the top : no one was to forget that he was at the top and everyone was supposed to forget where he had come from and how he had got where he was . |
| 20 | He related how he had come down to London and systematically searched through the various agencies that might have employed Elsie , how he had tracked down Mrs Wilson and had gone to see her . |
| 21 | In the twilight of the Great Drought he had come down to the river and filled his wheelbarrow with water until only a Samson could have moved it . |
| 22 | He had come down to the gallery to join the houseparty , he thought simply to look at a new sculpture , before they all returned to the house for luncheon . |
| 23 | He had come down to the Club that night with a real purpose , a purpose only half of which had been carried out at the meeting . |
| 24 | He had come down to the island to make sure all was well while his grandfather was in hospital . |
| 25 | He had come down from Oxford a few months ago obsessed with the idea of social service . |
| 26 | Than the shops gave place to boarding houses and the hill began ; it was a twin of the one he had come down from the car park . |
| 27 | Because then Jesus said to him , who was he talking to , let's , let's start off on the verse one after er after he had come down from the mountains , great crowds followed him that 's Jesus is n't it ? |
| 28 | When she had once laughingly asked , ‘ Who supplies the meat , Father , and the clothes that go between the hats and the shoes ? ’ he had come back with his usual answer to her , ‘ You 're too sharp by half ; you 'll cut yourself one of these days . ’ |
| 29 | After wartime service in the RAF he had come back to the School , and with his friends Mr. Norris and Mr. Hardie had helped to introduce Rugby to the School . |
| 30 | She looked at the baby , also drenched in tears , and found he had come back to life . |