Example sentences of "comes [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 It 's hard to imagine anybody writing more artificially , but I hope you feel , as I do , there can hardly be a piece of poetry in which the distress of the poet and the feeling that he may be wasting his time comes through in a more anguished fashion .
2 In Kevin Billington 's production , Quartermaine 's Terms comes over as a deceptively sedate and profoundly funny play that is a serious pleasure to watch from start to finish .
3 This unsensitivity aside , though , George comes over as a pretty decent bloke who simply got fed up with his celebrity status .
4 This unsensitivity aside , though , George comes over as a pretty decent bloke who simply got fed up with his celebrity status .
5 What falls less easily into place is the judgment about relative importance , urgency , contemporary relevance , nearness to reality ; because Raskolnikov comes over as a very grand and accessible conception , a nineteenth-century bohemian Hamlet was one way of putting it , whereas Verkhovensky is just a wrecker .
6 Niki comes up on a tightly bunched group of lapped drivers .
7 They are not tremendously significant unless a person s name comes up for a more senior position .
8 Today 's event should show if he has what is needed to take him to the top for he comes up against a very useful opponent in Sabin du Loir ( 1.15 ) .
9 Today 's event should show if he has what is needed to take him to the top for he comes up against a very useful opponent in Sabin du Loir ( 1.15 ) .
10 But each time this has been tried , it comes up against the apparently irreconcilable rivalries of the three figures who have dominated the French right for the past 15 years — Jacques Chirac , Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and ( to a lesser extent ) Raymond Barre .
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