Example sentences of "come [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was worse to come 2 minutes from time . |
| 2 | If he 'd like to come 100 yards down Yarm Road I would gladly take him on . ’ |
| 3 | On Monday , more academics swam in Johnson 's travelling aquarium : Principal Campbell , Professor Ross and a Dr Gerard , who had ‘ come six miles from the country on purpose ’ . |
| 4 | And the column has come three times , each time in the late afternoon . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've come three weeks early so that we can get in plenty of training , plus the three warm-up games . |
| 6 | They used to come three times a week with lumps of ice , oh as big as that , about as thick as that , in bags . |
| 7 | We 've to go back fourteen miles , we 've come fourteen and we 've to go back fourteen miles . |
| 8 | In requesting , A must ( a ) want B to come now , ( b ) think it possible that B can come , ( c ) think B is not already there , ( d ) think B was not about to come anyway , ( e ) expect that B will respond with an acceptance or rejection , and if B accepts , then A will also expect B to come , ( f ) think that his ( A 's ) asking may be a possible motive for B to come , ( g ) not be , or be pretending not to be , in a position to order B to come 4 . |
| 9 | Even when she passed the two-furlong pole , some five lengths off the leaders , she knew she had them ; but if the post had come ten yards earlier , she would never have got up . |
| 10 | ‘ Because of all that 's happened , ’ she says , such a move would have to come one step at a time . |
| 11 | They were trying more to come one place ahead of me than to win a medal . |
| 12 | I said it had to come one day , did n't I ? ’ |
| 13 | And they needed to buy Dai Huang 's new hard bricks , because some malicious spirit had come one dark night to kick holes in the backs of the other , smaller kilns . |
| 14 | The soldiers had come five months earlier . |
| 15 | And you did n't even notice me though I must have come five or six times . |
| 16 | It does tend to come twenty forty |
| 17 | So by the end of the day , I was like , look I 've come all this way , which was n't totally true , but I said , look I 've come all this way , the bloke arranged that he would meet us at this time , and he 's not here , and like , you know , I 've come two and a half hours in the car , and I 've got ta drive home again , and we were gon na have a look at the house . |
| 18 | Director of OEM and technology licensing for IBM 's advanced workstations and systems division , Lucian Bifano said ‘ Since the [ PowerPC ] agreement with Motorola and Apple 18 months ago , we speculated on who would be the first to market with a product ; we certainly did not expect it to come four months after our October announcement of the first silicon ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ I would n't trust them to people who 've had a year to get ready and still manage to come two hours late . |
| 20 | She 's gon na have to come two hundred and fifty mile . |
| 21 | Can we catch up , by a little clairvoyance , on the persistent tendency of state provision to come thirty years late ? |
| 22 | Instead , virgin forest is plundered , and behind the loggers come thousands of displaced migrant farmers who destroy any chance the land may have had of regenerating itself . |
| 23 | Finally it was time to tackle the design of the hotel 's talking-point — the vast fresh-water swimming-pool Stephen planned to construct to cater for guests who , having come thousands of miles to see the Caribbean , decided they did n't actually want to swim in it . |
| 24 | The final chapter in the story of imprisonment for debt came eight years later with the simultaneous passing in 1869 of the Debtors Act ( 32 & 33 Victoria cap 62 ) and the Bankruptcy Act ( 32 & 33 Victoria cap 71 ) . |
| 25 | Hadleigh 's winner came eight minutes before the end when Keys set up the chance for Smith to score his second with a shot on the run . |
| 26 | A friend came eight years ago for his tea , he 's still here ! |
| 27 | Their call came fifty years to the day after an Oxford academic produced a report that became the corner-stone of the welfare state . |
| 28 | She came two-thirds of the way down the stairs and confronted the men as they stood in the hallway . |
| 29 | Acceptance of the pension plan by the workers came 12 months after Doug Burns , Senior Corporate Manager at Colmore Row Branch , first met executives from the engineering company . |
| 30 | Iraq 's imports , with a total value of $10,290 million , came 19.2 per cent from the USA , 12.7 per cent from Brazil , 11.7 per cent from Turkey , 9.1 per cent from Japan , 6.3 per cent from France , 5.1 per cent from Italy , 1.1 per cent from West Germany , 0.7 per cent from the UK and 14.4 per cent from other EC countries ( notably Benelux countries ) . |