Example sentences of "to come [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Injuries have hit the club , and coach Billy Lomax had to come on as a substitute midway through the second half . |
2 | The yellow nylon shirt with the frothy frill amounts to an offence against taste bordering on the criminal , yet it somehow works to offset his complexion ( pale blue ) and the ensemble enables him to come on like a chat-show host from Hell — vast smiles and arms flung out in gestures of mock formality . |
3 | Worst Career Move of the month : ex-world 's greatest sleazeball James Woods trying to come on like a middle-aged woman 's dreamboat opposite Dolly Parton in Straight Talk , which also has the biggest supporting cast of the month : Griffin Dunne , John Sayles , Spalding Gray . |
4 | But I cooled him out and he agreed to come along to a new rehearsal place that we 'd found , The Rose And Crown in Wandsworth . |
5 | But I quite see that you need someone to come in on a practical issue like what to do about his tenants . |
6 | In terms of progressing or taking part in the discussion , can I suggest that if you want to come in on a particular item , you put your name board up like that , so that we can readily observe it er and equally , our friend who is looking after the microphones can make sure that the vol the volume of your microphone is turned up at the appropriate time . |
7 | And really I 'm going to start off and then Liz is going to come in on a particular aspect of this . |
8 | Affleck , who hopes to play for Wales in the World Cup this year , had a steady 67 , five birdies and 13 pars , while Sam Torrance , beginning at the 10th , did well to come in with a 68 . |
9 | and erm I used to do erm , keep a check on the flying times of the planes cos every forty hours they had to come in for a different check . |
10 | He never wrote entirely admiring reviews : ‘ It 's the essence of a book never to be perfect , ’ he said , ‘ so its writer must expect to come in for a little criticism . ’ |
11 | We used to come in for a fair amount of ribbing and good-natured chaff , and remarks like , Was it a red sky this morning ? |
12 | If I may broaden it away from erm the Cardinal Newman School and think probably of a lot of East Sussex Comprehensive Schools , I think we have all been , in the schools , in the last few years , working hard to establish this openness , and I think that the closed concept of the school , the school that locks children out at break or locks children out at dinner time , which only allows parents to come in for a phoney Open Day when there are a few children there , they are things largely , I think , of the past and they are the closed society . |
13 | She said politely , ‘ Would you like to come in for a last drink ? ’ |
14 | I ask him to come down for a few days and I also invite Lady De Marr . |
15 | " Ask Dr. Lorrimer to come down for a few minutes , will you please ? " |
16 | He needed to come down from a greater height than most . |
17 | Sixty miles they used to come over for a good evening at those and maybe two principles |
18 | Underlining the endless uncertainty that surrounds any industrial or commercial company that has the misfortune to be controlled by the state , France 's chronic loss-maker Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has been given two months to come up with a viable strategy , French Industry Minister Gerard Longuet said after a news conference where he outlined his policies after six weeks in office . |
19 | Underlining the endless uncertainty that surrounds any industrial or commercial company controlled by the state , France 's loss-maker Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has been given two months to come up with a viable strategy , French Industry Minister Gerard Longuet said after a news conference where he outlined his policies after six weeks in office . |
20 | Well , I 'm terribly sorry if I did n't add another notch to your bedpost , but look on the bright side — at least I saved you the bother of having to come up with a nice little farewell speech at the end of it all . |
21 | Stung , the League said yesterday that they expect ITV to come up with a new date within the next fortnight and they will not tolerate one beyond the scheduled season 's end of May 5 . |
22 | The SSC will hold a meeting in June , when all sorts of would-be participants will try to come up with a new detector . |
23 | This left five days for the Patent Office and its advertising agency , Ayer , to come up with a new version . |
24 | Workers at Britain 's Institute of Geological Sciences aim , however , to come up with a new set of tools that can indicate minerals much further under the ground . |
25 | So , whichever way we bob and weave , I 'll be able to re-jig the data or reporting structures to come up with a new geographical analysis or responsibility centre , whatever way we want to report . ’ |
26 | Now writers are trying to come up with a new story for Willis as rival studios race to cash in on the Die Hard formula . |
27 | It wants vendors to use the P5 code name until the chip is formally announced , and has invited employees to come up with a new name that stresses 80386 and 80486 compatibility — so the RISC 86 suggestion did not get a warm welcome . |
28 | BAeSEMA has been contracted by the navy to come up with a new design for bridges incorporating the latest in ergonomic practice . |
29 | After a two-hour meeting , the Lib Dem leader , Jim Wallace , said his party had given the organisation another chance to come up with a new way forward . |
30 | IBM is promising to come up with a cost-efficient CMOS microprocessor-based 390 in the second half of the year . |