Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] come [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mitre template has since come back onto the market , but at prices like £18-£20 and considering the relatively small amount of work in which it is employed , some readers will no doubt feel that they could spend that money more profitably , so will want to make their own . |
| 2 | ‘ Come and look at the fireplaces , ’ said William , and they filed dutifully into the room Tess had just come out of . |
| 3 | ‘ The subject of marriage has never come up in our relationship . ’ |
| 4 | As far as can be made out , systems of fingerspelling have always come about by hearing invention . |
| 5 | This may cut out a certain amount of light , but as there are two windows in one corner , the room has light coming in from two directions and is probably lighter than average anyway . |
| 6 | This was when the need to live together came not from the older generation , but from the child 's own family . |
| 7 | The Kenyan-born allrounder had once come close to playing for England . |
| 8 | No British team have ever come back from three goals down in the history of European competition . |
| 9 | Of all the Soviet nationalities , the Baltic nations looked the most likely to establish ( or as they saw it , resume ) their independent statehood in the 1990s ; their opportunity to do so came soon after the attempted coup when ( in September 1991 ) the USSR Council of State formally approved their independent status and they were admitted into the United Nations and other international organisations . |
| 10 | A film editor friend has just come back from a couple of weeks of yoga , a music producer I know goes to St James , Piccadilly , where they have spiritual talks on a Monday evening , while a designer friend does Chi-Kung , a Chinese movement like Tai-Chi , where you have to ‘ stand like a tree ’ . |
| 11 | Lucker has obviously come back for me once , as there is a fresh note on the bed . |
| 12 | I can not believe this minor revolution has actually come about in response to the frustration of woodworkers worldwide who lose the chuck key in the sawdust on the workshop floor ! |
| 13 | The three other members of the crew had just come back to the pump — we were doing " series pumping " — they had brought me a bottle of beer and I was taking a swig . |
| 14 | A sentence such as John and his friend have just come back from New York can be used to illustrate an insertion task . |
| 15 | John and his friend have just come back from New York , you know . |
| 16 | John and his friend have just come back from New , you know , York |
| 17 | John and his , you know , friend have just come back from New York . |
| 18 | Buying a marine aquarium like any other purchase where quality counts usually comes down to ‘ you get what you pay for ’ and economising inevitably means cutting standards . |
| 19 | We turned our ponies and galloped back to the Legation , where we learnt that news had just come in of a great victory for the Shoan army . |
| 20 | It was as if the news had never come through at all . |
| 21 | The Royal Society has now come up with some concrete recommendations for broader-based science education and postponement of specialisation . |
| 22 | He would always teach trainees : " If a client asks you a question you do n't understand , say — " Hold on a minute sir , a call has just come through to me from the States " — put him on hold then , and ask me . |
| 23 | No hi-fi speaker maker has ever come up with a woofer that low and resonant . |
| 24 | In the month and a half it 's been delivering its high-end SparcCenter 2000s Sun has shipped 130 systems to paying customers : the firm has reportedly come up with a new 50MHz MPU module for its high-end SparcCenter 2000 that adds 2Mb external caches and improves database throughput from 20% to 40% . |
| 25 | One British firm has just come back from France with almost £1m for its contribution towards landscaping . |
| 26 | Not a single other EC government had yesterday come out in support of the American President 's decision . |
| 27 | ‘ This report has just come in from the Environments Officer . |
| 28 | The walk outlined here comes close to being a true wilderness area , being lonely , beautiful and sometimes precarious . |
| 29 | This was in four storeys and in a no-frills , prefabricated style that could have been anything-a tax office , a really dull hotel , a leaking hospital doomed never to come fully into service . |
| 30 | On the other hand , commentators on English have recently come up with a startling reversal : they have begun to argue that natural gender , traditionally defined as a classification based on sex reference , is really a grammatical phenomenon . |