Example sentences of "come [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , among the veritable rarities that have come my way in that time , I have had at least as many disappointments as pleasant surprises . |
| 2 | Since then , through third parties , two opportunities have come my way to work with that celebrity . |
| 3 | If the Pritchetts had n't taken me in , I 'd have probably been put in an orphanage and never had the educational advantages or been given the opportunities that have come my way . ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps I might not have done but for information which has recently come my way concerning your financial circumstances . |
| 5 | ‘ No — that has n't come my way — marriage , ’ he said rather oddly , as if it were the sort of thing about which one had no conscious choice . |
| 6 | Asked whether he is now used to confrontations , he said : ‘ I hate them but they seem to come my way . |
| 7 | The first ‘ Aspects ’ discs to come my way encompass a wide musical spectrum . |
| 8 | you think , why does that crab always have to come my line . |
| 9 | A great deal of gossip about the village and its inhabitants had thus come her way , from every direction . |
| 10 | But luck had come her way at the very last moment . |
| 11 | She had always sworn that her private life would take second place to her career until she had established herself , that she would never become involved with anyone remotely connected with racing , and fortunately temptation had rarely come her way . |
| 12 | It had come her way because , leaving them in charge of Mrs Gracie , Dinah had gone for diversion to what she expected to be a dull sewing-meeting in the Islington church where she and Paul had been married . |
| 13 | ‘ I guess they just want other sorts of women in their movies in Hollywood , ’ she shrugs , saying she 'd rather now have no offers at all than be asked to play the kind of ‘ one-note , bitchy character ’ that has since come her way . |
| 14 | She could see , as plain as the nose on her face , that here was a man of the self-centred , philandering , dangerous variety , the kind of man no girl in her right mind would risk getting involved with … so how come her hormones were letting her down in this maddening way ? |
| 15 | Lord only knew what cutting comments would have come her way if he had . |
| 16 | She had never ridden a horse and , as she had always lived in the city , the opportunity to wander through native bush had never come her way . |
| 17 | Of all the roles she had played in the theatre , of all the great works that had come her way , she was fated to be remembered mostly for how she pronounced the rhetorical question , ‘ A hand-bag ? ’ |
| 18 | Although it has mended its ways in recent years , the NRDC deserves some of the criticism that has come its way . |
| 19 | Secondly , if England 's minders were fit to work at a half decent night club , how come their client was left rolling in the gutter early in the game ? |
| 20 | Any teacher could write their own long list of countermanding pieces of advice that have come their way . |
| 21 | It suppresses the immune system so that infected people are prone to almost any infection that happens to come their way . |
| 22 | Women in particular may realize that the kind of relationships they have enjoyed are less likely to come their way once they reach middle age . |
| 23 | With a roar , it began to come their way , searching with its closed dead eyes set in the grotesque moving head . |
| 24 | There was a shortfall in orders to carry the company into the 1990s — the famous ‘ black hole ’ — and it was vastly overmanned for the amount of work that was likely to come its way in the immediate future . |
| 25 | If one took analogies seriously and from such a definition … of ‘ so-called primitive capitalist accumulation ’ , then literally the whole of capitalism , right up to its death would end up in the ‘ pre-history ’ of capitalism : for capitalism obtains surplus profits from ‘ third persons ’ throughout its entire existence ; there is and will be no such stage in the life of capitalism when profits were not to come its way on the basis of exploitation of third persons . |
| 26 | Methodism had clearly not yet achieved the success that was to come its way during the nineteenth century . |
| 27 | A whole stream of events issues from the decision , raising in one 's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way . |
| 28 | A whole stream of events issues from the decision , raising in one 's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way . |
| 29 | Then had come his accident , and they were forced to leave their London house and come to St Petrock 's in the hope of his regaining his strength . |
| 30 | In any case , Allison , who discovered the joys of off-licence products and credit card abuse before Norman Lamont was knee high to the Mace , has spilled most of the gravy that has come his way in a life that has brought a different kind of riches . |