Example sentences of "[coord] [modal v] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the child that comes or may come from a sexual encounter between a man and a woman differs from the child born from that man and some other woman ( or from the same man and the same woman on another occasion ) , so every genuine poem is the unique product of one unrepeatable encounter between the artist and an unearthly partner who may be called ‘ Muse ’ or ‘ goddess ’ . |
| 2 | Silica may be derived from natural sources or may come from water-treatment chemicals or detergent mixtures . |
| 3 | More and more gliders were being produced all the time and it was quite impracticable to house them all in hangars , so they stood endlessly around the edges of airfields in the rain , waiting for an invasion which might come this year or might come next . |
| 4 | Theirs was the charm of not being bourgeois , and the foreigners among them could be , or could come across as , princes , pretenders to a throne , descendants of a khan . |
| 5 | Then there 's a lady over here who comes or used to come on a regular basis a couple of times a month she comes now a couple of times a year . |
| 6 | Convinced , and quite rightly , that nothing had or would come of Napoleon III 's attempts to drum up an alliance with Italy or Austria-Hungary , dismissing such a possibility as ‘ idle gossip ’ , the Prussian Chancellor prepared to spring his trap . |
| 7 | An insidious and intrusive pressure may be laid on pupils which , under the guise of a friendly and honest account of a pupil 's interests and activities , may prove just as much of a turn-off for the imaginative or deviant as the examination system itself , and may come quite soon to be regarded with cynicism by both pupils and employers alike . |
| 8 | Since a high proportion of residents in Homes are frail , you may have to assist with nursing care and may come across conditions which you may not have met before in elderly people . |
| 9 | Kleinworts looked at setting up a common investment fund , and while , says Rupert Marlow , it has ‘ not eliminated the idea and may come in with something in due course ’ , it prefers to rely on authorised unit trusts and exempt unit trusts to manage its £250m of charity money . |
| 10 | Civil and Public Services Association chief Barry Reamsbottom told the unions ' Blackpool conference : ‘ We 're stuck in a time-warp and must come in from the cold . ’ |
| 11 | Before this can be put into effect however , the Society must raise $110,000 just to keep its library open until 1 June , and must come up with an additional $2.5 million to cover a bare-boned operation from June 1993 to June 1994 . |
| 12 | She did not want to tell Connor that she had a private plan in mind ; it was such a very long shot , and might come to nothing . |
| 13 | Miguel told me that Rosie is doing well , and might come home on Wednesday . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Mike Phelan is fit again and could come into the reckoning , but I have plenty of options , ’ said the United manager . |
| 15 | The author was , for example , frustrated for some time by a field name written in 1736 as Abboxry Land , and could come to no sensible conclusion as to what was meant . |
| 16 | They did n't happen often , and could come at the unlikeliest times and places . |
| 17 | I wish you were a Romany and could come with us . ’ |
| 18 | Given that the Secretary of State 's own appointed governor , the former chief inspector , Eric Bolton , said that the situation at the school is ’ unsatisfactory ’ and that the general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers said that pupils and staff at Stratford school are ’ disturbed ’ , does the Minister recognise that the Secretary of State 's statement last week that Stratford school was ’ operating satisfactorily ’ had no basis in fact and could come only from a Secretary of State who sought to evade , rather than take , the responsibility which was plainly his ? |
| 19 | Neddy Fawcett , who was farming at West Birk Hatt in the days before it was flooded when the new reservoir opened , was very good with mechanical things and used to come over and try to make it start . |
| 20 | They all came down and used to come in our rooms and all sorts of other and I met some very ni and of course , all nationalities , you see and no matter what they were , well of course Cambridge has always been noted for different nationalities , has n't it ? |
| 21 | It was most of them was local men but a lot of the Westray men and used to come too and help out . |
| 22 | Some sweating millionaires were buying while others said they were too hot to think and would come back later — which they did . |
| 23 | He said ‘ you would thing that people were used to elephants , but they love them and would come out and be blessed by her . |
| 24 | Any cuts would be on top of production line redundancies and would come only a year after GM finished cutbacks which slashed its white-collar staff by 40,000 to 140,000 worldwide . |
| 25 | Basically that David had moved out of Plaistow Grove to leave her on her own to die , to live with the fancy whore from America , and yet on other days , of course , I was perfectly lovely and would come and shop with her and do everything . |
| 26 | My brother-in-law had managed to fix things up , he said , and would come right away . |
| 27 | I tried so hard to be good but a lot was expected of children in those days , and I often had nightmares thinking the man would know about me and would come and get me . |
| 28 | ‘ Owen always seemed to have an enormous amount of mail at Stratford and would come straight from the stage door to the green room , clutching a handful of letters which he would clasp to his body in a special way which I had n't realised he did until I started drawing this picture and could n't work out what to do with the arms . |
| 29 | From the open door of the shed he had a good view of Firelight grazing and she got to know where he was and would come up to the hedge close by and wait for titbits . |
| 30 | They used to come over for the spud-picking and go to Ormskirk and live in a bothy and would come to Scotland Place because there were so many wakes . |