Example sentences of "come [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 His mother 's claims come just a few days before the publication of a report into the case of seven mental patients , who died after they were discharged from hospital .
2 The national competition successes come just a few weeks after site newsletter Risley News was voted the north 's Newsletter of the Year at the Guardian Editing Awards , staged by the Northern region of the BAIE in Manchester .
3 I come home a little bit earlier tonight
4 So the people at the front yeah if if you come up a little bit closer .
5 Mike come up a few times .
6 ‘ I 've seen babies lose all their hair and come out a different colour . ’
7 Make a note of their position and come back a few weeks later to collect them when they are fully grown .
8 And erm come here a young girl and a baby , and helping to install her in in on one of the flats , and just sort of e th there was something erm happened to be wrong with one of the rubbish chutes at that time , and we were actually kicking our way through rubbish on the stairs , erm near the chute to get erm to come up .
9 ‘ We had one of those social workers come round a few weeks ago — she was doing a sort of survey of old age pensioners — some idea that they could live on twenty-five shillings a week for food .
10 The Blessed Sacrament Chapel is in a small room just inside the Presbytery door and to it come over a hundred people who give an hour of their time a week to ‘ watch ’ but there are countless others who come in just for a minute or two and there find a few minutes of silence and prayer .
11 at they come over a hundred miles an hour on some of these runs !
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