Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [prep] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Andrew Impey has really come on in leaps and bounds since he first broke into the first team and Ian Holloway does a great job for us . ’
2 Sue Leggate says : ‘ Consumer rights have come on in leaps and bounds since Which ? first appeared .
3 Son Pardo has come on in leaps and bounds since finishing fifth on his debut at Newmarket on 2,000 Guineas day .
4 With the introduction of carbon fibre , rod development has come on in leaps and bounds .
5 The young members section has come on in leaps and bounds in the last few years .
6 ‘ He 's technically a very good goalkeeper and he has come on in leaps and bounds in recent weeks , ’ he said .
7 He has come on in leaps and bounds this season .
8 There were reports of other attacks to the north and west , but still no word had come in of Lionan or Mullach , and Murtach 's patrol had not sighted them .
9 And as if on cue , reports have just come in of tracks and sightings of live rhinos in two Sumatran reserves — Way Kambas and Berbak Game Reserve in Jambi — where they were believed extinct .
10 And talking of detectives , are n't those two gentlemen , who have just come in like Laurel and Hardy , of that ilk ? ’
11 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 .
12 Some months later , when she judged that things would have quietened down , she had come down to London and had set about re-establishing her business .
13 It has come down to personalities and Julia is very disturbed by it all .
14 In contrast to the costly and sophisticated technology employed by the major companies were simple but effective ‘ home studios ’ costing under £1,000 by 1985 , the average price of four-track recording machines had come down to £500 and over 20,000 had been sold in Britain .
15 Almost dancing on air , Laura had barely come down to earth when she found herself sitting beside him in a small riverside restaurant .
16 The farmers going to market had come down from Barking and Ringshall and those places , and on the rough owd country roads they managed ; but as soon as they got to the tarred road in Needham street they had to stop .
17 The shares have come down from 795p since the toxic waste issue blew up .
18 The poor duck must have crawled all that way , a hundred metres or more to that second patch of light ; our bright idea of putting the branches down after him to cover him up was pointless ; for all these years it would only have needed some more kids to have come along with torches or bits of burning paper to discover the body .
19 Under the high side there was a grey Buick that I had seen Harvey driving and a long black Lincoln Continental that looked like the President of the United States had come over for pizza and beer .
20 The Scots had come over from Ireland and colonised most of Galloway , Kintyre and Arran .
21 This had been carried out inside the health department and had come up with findings that were easily predictable .
22 ‘ You had best come up on deck if you are to be sick .
23 He had not come up on deck when the P.L.A .
24 First time I went to Norwich alone , he come up to school and got me out at half past nine in the morning .
25 Mhairi McMillan , a counsellor at St Andrews University , said : ‘ There may be a sense of glamour attached to a tutor or a lecturer for somebody who 's maybe just come up to university or working their way through .
26 You , th cos the railway men used to make the path , cos the terrific amount of railway men used to work down at and most of our round consisted of railway people and most of them had come up from Wales and places like that .
27 Well at various times in my life I 've come back to Kingston and I first of all used to see peo girls who were at school with me .
28 Politics has come back to life as well .
29 And camping We 've just come back from Cornwall and it was very wet .
30 Ever since that ghastly winter 's night when she had come back from Wimbledon and said she was pregnant .
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