Example sentences of "come [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rose from the chair and watched the girl come slowly into the room . |
| 2 | He did come on as a substitute against er Oxford in midweek and Frank Clarke 's first signing injured his shoulder in this collision with Speedy . |
| 3 | Jazz switched the television off and came outside with them and they kicked a tin-can round the field a bit and then sat on some dumped oil-drums and watched the lights come on along the front and smoked a cigarette and reflected on their fate . |
| 4 | Mrs Blakey , only a little less sceptical than her husband of this line of talk , nevertheless recalled how Timothy Gedge had affected her when he 'd come on to the telephone with a woman 's voice , and her bewilderment when the silence had first begun in the house . |
| 5 | The needle will come on to the scale from the Left on the indicator . |
| 6 | But the upward pressure on prices will be dampened by the 70,000 repossessed properties and the large stock of inherited houses that will now come on to the market . |
| 7 | Not only would I lose a valued client but her collection might come on to the market , her reasons for selling would become known , Durances all over the world would become suspect and lose their value and dealers would suffer . |
| 8 | At halftime , he 'd come on to the pitch and give the whole team extra-strong mints , rearrange the tactics , change our positions , tell us we were playing downhill in the second half , tell us that a six-goal deficit was nothing . |
| 9 | And I 'm sure Miinnehoma will come on for the race , ’ he said . |
| 10 | It may make for some good headlines , but De Niro certainly does n't come on like a tycoon , talking about his company as not so much a business , more an ‘ artistic community ’ where people can freely exchange ideas . |
| 11 | The only thing that makes it bearable is the irrational belief that somebody interesting will come on in a minute … |
| 12 | For long periods , this somewhat improbable lake is so safe and tranquil that visitors can come right to the edge of the crater , without the least hazard . |
| 13 | No , no they just take your word for it and now I have got as I said , I 've got that , I 've got to paint that over and reseal and I 've got to make sure that nobody makes a mess in there , but the plumber said what you really need to do is to get rid of this cheap and tatty , horrible plastic tray which does n't come right to the edge of the tiles |
| 14 | Go up Road , and from there turn down Follyhouse Lane the continuation of it and you 'd come right to the Dales and nothing at all from there to West Bromwich , and you could see , if you go over one stile from one field then onto another and then brook that now runs through the Road there , that used to be a little country brook that run across the golf course and there was a little stile over it , a little bridge and a stile , then you go straight up to Dells common and not a house in sight . |
| 15 | He wished he 'd never come right into the house . |
| 16 | When that gone down they used to splash cos that used to come underneath the buckets and our cabin hatchway was facing that and many a time that 'd come right down the cabin , the mud . |
| 17 | The theoretical difference between the categories may well come down to a question of the burden of proof , though in practice a party seeking to uphold the validity of the restrictive covenant — usually the employer — has to make all the running . |
| 18 | Did it really not come down to a fear of the knife ? |
| 19 | Moreover , as Hirst has suggested , it is not by any means certain that more knowledge in itself would help ; disagreement among supposed experts suggests that in fact we are comparing differing practices , differing values , differing approaches , and that in the end we shall come down to a series of judgements in which personal preferences will play their part . |
| 20 | Do n't come down to the kitchen . |
| 21 | I was starving so I thought I 'd come down to the kitchen . |
| 22 | It could all come down to the doorsteps in Darlington . |
| 23 | Anybody else who 's coming up between twenty nine and thirty four , if you could come down to the rostrum colleagues . |
| 24 | So colleagues if the moves of motion three one four er would come down and move their motion and with other colleagues if they would come down to the rostrum please it would save time . |
| 25 | Mentioned earlier , colleagues that erm , there are a number of motions , so if the movers and supporting speakers could come down to the rostrum , it would be er helpful . |
| 26 | I guess he heard Barbara and me discussing the good time we had with you , and he kind of picked up on it , and he wondered why he could n't come down to the Bahamas and isolate himself from drugs . |
| 27 | A group of youngsters can often come down to the river and go over the top |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been hoping you 'd come down to the beach these last three days , ’ he went on . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll take Lady Lassiter home , men , and then I 'll come down to the buildings . |
| 30 | In other words , the differences between the two may come down to the fact that one is a linguist interested in grammar , while the other is a psychologist interested in the functional relations between language and the immediate context . |