Example sentences of "[vb mod] come [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it 's a question of balance I I the forty one thousand figure in my view should come down by a few thousand to reflect constraints in specific areas , I wo n't go into that now cos it 's a separate discussion later on . |
| 2 | ‘ If Prost wants to be called champion for a fourth time he should come back in a sporting way . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He told the Governor that ‘ Rance must come out with a new policy , with proposals that go beyond the White paper [ of May 1945 ] . |
| 5 | For example , if I 'm starting college and searching for somewhere to live , I might come up with a dozen possible ideas . |
| 6 | Do you think I might come in for a few minutes and talk to you about Matilda ? ’ |
| 7 | He 'll come up with an estimated erm an estimated price and er and do most of the Q S-ing in house . |
| 8 | If I 'm really lucky then I 'll come back with a tame , talkative Angel for you . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , I 'll come along for a little while to the bonfire , but do n't accept for me later . |
| 10 | It was her turn now to become a heroine if only she could come up with a brilliant plot . |
| 11 | Before he could come up with a satisfactory formulation they were joined by Georgina , the chairman 's daughter by his first marriage . |
| 12 | But , given the money , I know we could come up with a British winner . ’ |
| 13 | Grant , the people could come back in a few minutes |
| 14 | The late and sadly missed Roy Kinnear and Kenneth Williams would always help you out at a moment 's notice , and not only that , they 'd come up with a great performance . |
| 15 | I do n't exclude myself from myself , but I I I 'd give him a nine and I I 'd come in at a seven I think . |
| 16 | For fuck 's sake Dawn you 'd come back to a fucking siege . |
| 17 | They looked as if they 'd come out of a medieval illustration . |
| 18 | Yes y I think you 'd be more disappointed if you , if you 'd taken the tap this time and you 'd come out with a commended . |
| 19 | Sixty miles they used to come over for a good evening at those and maybe two principles |
| 20 | We used to come in for a fair amount of ribbing and good-natured chaff , and remarks like , Was it a red sky this morning ? |
| 21 | It is unlikely that we shall come up with a mechanical formula — in quite a number of cases , judgments will be necessary ; but I would be surprised if the guiding principles did not lead to pretty definite answers in the majority of cases . |
| 22 | The gayer , shorter girls would come on for a general dance to the Gavotte . |
| 23 | He felt only sorry for him and sure that , if they could stay alone together for a while , Fiver would come round to an easier state of mind . |
| 24 | You will have to explain exactly why the first report was useless , why the particular expert was chosen and why you think that a new expert would come up with a case-winning report . |
| 25 | Occasionally these protégés would come up with a one-off prestige film which could be used to show how respectable and serious Hollywood had become . |
| 26 | When it had been screened you 'd got to be in there and the malted barley would come out of a big hole just big enough to get a comb-sack through ; and it used to run into a big heap ; and you 'd got to be inside there a-throwing on it back so it did n't bung up the hole . |
| 27 | ‘ It is , of course , no accident , ’ he said out loud , testing to see if the words would come out on a printed page in a bound volume , ‘ that redundant theological speculation about the death of God should run parallel with an equally tedious literary preoccupation with the death of the novel . ’ |
| 28 | From time to time , Patrick would come out with a forthright remark about something we were n't actually discussing . |
| 29 | Erm we have twenty people in , in a group and we go around and ask then how much post school technical and professional training they 've had , we would come out with an average group of a total of about a hundred years of post school professional and technical training . |
| 30 | They were kept waiting for just a couple of minutes — ‘ While Mr Magill completes a call ’ in a cool-warm windowless reception area soundproofed so that even the loudest complaint about a bill would come out as a hushed croak then ushered through into an office that was almost straight from Charles Dickens . |