Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gayer , shorter girls would come on for a general dance to the Gavotte . |
| 2 | His reappearance in 2010 decisively resolves this , at the cost of making him come on like a Californian religious freak about ‘ something wonderful ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ You can come down for a nice sit in me kitchen , ’ said Mrs Beavis . |
| 4 | Well it 's a question of balance I I the forty one thousand figure in my view should come down by a few thousand to reflect constraints in specific areas , I wo n't go into that now cos it 's a separate discussion later on . |
| 5 | At the present pace of progress in Brussels , similar changes throughout the EC may not come in for a dozen years or more , and British farmers fear that they will lose business while waiting for European competitors to catch up . |
| 6 | Do you think I might come in for a few minutes and talk to you about Matilda ? ’ |
| 7 | If we 're looking at the question of services coming together to deal with the emergency erm obviously I suppose the army and that will come in on a voluntary basis which but it might be necessary to see where someone could be authority to coordinate the services and bring it whatever is required . |
| 8 | I do n't exclude myself from myself , but I I I 'd give him a nine and I I 'd come in at a seven I think . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , I 'll come along for a little while to the bonfire , but do n't accept for me later . |
| 10 | The structure of courses is flexible and if you do n't fancy multi-activity then you can come along on a specialist week concentrating on one sport . |
| 11 | Outside of those times , there is a night-line which is on , so any calls that come into the press outside of those times will come through on a special number which will ring and anybody can pick up . |
| 12 | Even if I went onstage and did a direct rip-off of Jagger or Bowie it would never come off as a complete copy because Blondie is a girl . ’ |
| 13 | It was her turn now to become a heroine if only she could come up with a brilliant plot . |
| 14 | It is unlikely that we shall come up with a mechanical formula — in quite a number of cases , judgments will be necessary ; but I would be surprised if the guiding principles did not lead to pretty definite answers in the majority of cases . |
| 15 | However the conservationists and oil companies both agree that President Bush must now come up with a viable energy policy . |
| 16 | Unless Mr Aznar can come up with a convincing exposition of his economic policies , he could see his lead slip away once again . |
| 17 | The late and sadly missed Roy Kinnear and Kenneth Williams would always help you out at a moment 's notice , and not only that , they 'd come up with a great performance . |
| 18 | We were asked to erm come up with a new structure erm , and and it , the purpose of this report and to put that . |
| 19 | It is quite possible to use your own system of bar codes if you can come up with a suitable application . |
| 20 | The difficult search for a replacement for Bean after his retirement did not come up with a suitable candidate ( see The Art Newspaper No.17 , April 1992 , p.5 ) . |
| 21 | Why ca n't someone come up with a better boot than a rubber one ? |
| 22 | Even Nails , Hoomey thought proudly , could n't come up with a better name than that . |
| 23 | Unless someone can come up with a better answer . |
| 24 | A resolution passed by the Democrat-controlled House 27 votes to 13 advises Exxon to renegotiate and come up with a better offer . |
| 25 | There were , however , some cases in which the model did not come up with a valid parse , that is , a pattern that represents complete coverage of the input by a set of nonoverlapping words . |
| 26 | You will have to explain exactly why the first report was useless , why the particular expert was chosen and why you think that a new expert would come up with a case-winning report . |
| 27 | Grayling reckons that he has about another two years of research to do before he can come up with a conclusive report . |
| 28 | Before he could come up with a satisfactory formulation they were joined by Georgina , the chairman 's daughter by his first marriage . |
| 29 | Occasionally these protégés would come up with a one-off prestige film which could be used to show how respectable and serious Hollywood had become . |
| 30 | What , if anything , should disconcert us if we can not come up with a trouble-free definition ? |