Example sentences of "come [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | he must of come low to took that must n't he ? |
| 2 | She had come nearer to the truth than she ever dreamed . |
| 3 | After we moved up permanently , they continued to come each Christmas for four or five years until one year there was silence . |
| 4 | Yes , so that became the the fire prevention suite , erm and erm still is the fire prevention suite , erm and is well used now again , almost bursting , I should think er with increasing staff and , and work which seems to come each year . |
| 5 | but , he actually lodged in Rothbury well that was fifteen miles to come each day |
| 6 | I suppose they could have come that way . ’ |
| 7 | In her hand she held the letter from England that had come that morning and Wilson knew what it contained : news of Miss Henrietta , of Mrs Surtees Cook , who was mortally ill with cancer of the womb . |
| 8 | So why was it and how come that Madame was claiming that the opposite was true and that it was her father who was the person out of favour ? |
| 9 | If any stranger had come that way it was likely he would think he was following the black road to hell . |
| 10 | Then he felt , vibrating along the ground , the steady tread of a man going away beyond the crest over which they had come that morning . |
| 11 | Few had come that way since the Deosil Gate had been one of the first to collapse in a shower of white-hot embers . |
| 12 | How come that shop had them and the other one did n't ? |
| 13 | ‘ And to come little visit with us ? ’ |
| 14 | His fortune , conservatively estimated in excess of a hundred million dollars , had come intact to his beloved daughter , Louise . |
| 15 | In Jane Austen , to come nearer home , the protagonists are not , it is true , titled , but they are privileged . |
| 16 | This was a city to get lost in , to come alive in , a city of immense contrasts , warmth and vitality . |
| 17 | Come dusk the place starts to come alive and the narrow streets behind the harbour , with it 's vast array of magnificent wood-built sailing cruisers , turn into a huge open air jamboree with everybody jostling , shopping , eating , drinking and generally having a good time . |
| 18 | And then the picture itself seemed to come alive . ’ |
| 19 | At the earliest stage it should be made to come alive for young people and teachers in the processes of education . |
| 20 | The table creaked and seemed to come alive , and the taps followed . |
| 21 | She wanted to come alive again and fall in love again ; but that was not possible , for no one but Rob MacDonald would do — and Rob was gone . |
| 22 | Only when she was undertaking solo engagements did she appear to come alive . |
| 23 | His riveting address , in which he lucidly , brilliantly demolished the moral authority of the outgoing US regime and urged his audience of ‘ young Americans ’ to come alive , could have been ( and probably was ) delivered at any point during the campaign . |
| 24 | Her long blonde hair seemed to come alive in the sunlight which gave it golden highlights . |
| 25 | The brand new year round EURO DISNEY Resort is scheduled to come alive on 12th April 1992 just across the Channel in France , 20 miles east of Paris . |
| 26 | At once that part of the map seemed to come alive ; was overlaid with a fine web of brilliant gold , the nodes of which sparkled in the overhead light . |
| 27 | John 's face seemed to come alive and his spirit escaped the prison of the photograph releasing brief images of happy times ; John dancing along the pavement , John tilting his head back to exhale smoke from a cigarette , John talking to a cuddly toy in a supermarket and making me laugh . |
| 28 | The fading light gave way in a matter of seconds to a moist , velvet blackness , as if a curtain had been drawn swiftly across the sky , and the shadows beyond the glow of the hurricane lamps immediately began to come alive with the shrill vibrations of the jungle night . |
| 29 | Inert , mute , untouchable , she seemed uncanny and prodigious to Rosa , who wanted her to protest the hectic fury all around her , to come alive and give a sign , as , below her , the volunteers hauling the lumbering shrine on their backs on poles criss-crossed and tethered grew more obstreperous and howled and the crowd pressed up and obstructed their laborious way ahead ; after three turns around the piazza they at last reached the platform in the middle , only a little distance from the Duomo they had left , and the sweat-streaked bearers put down the skewed tower on which the Madonna stood , and tumbled to their knees . |
| 30 | The threw back the bedclothes , shed her clinging nightgown and stood under a cool shower until she began to come alive . |