Example sentences of "come [prep] [pron] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Touch wood , he had been lucky and come through it all unscathed , but it would be no consolation to Byford to tell him that he had been un lucky , that it was the RIC and their Black and Tan recruits rather than British army patrols that were the main IRA targets .
2 CARNIVAL organiser Tex Flint said : ‘ Floats come from all over the country to take part in the festivities , but sadly some criminals also come for their own reasons . ’
3 They can lie back , having been paid , and say , in effect , come into me all you who are weary and heavily-laden , all you who are halt and lame , sick and malformed , stunted and twisted , lonely and disturbed .
4 The Falklands war saw the Hercules aircraft come into its own .
5 So it is in deserts ( and on islands ) that reptiles come into their own .
6 But here the puppets come into their own with hedgehogs as croquet balls and flamingos as mallets — try doing that with a live actor .
7 At this point , cars or bicycles come into their own .
8 Whilst it is always desirable to have the central repertoire available in the lower price ranges , it seems to me that ‘ bargain ’ labels really come into their own by offering less familiar fayre .
9 Grappelli 's swinging , fluid style seems at first to be leaving his young guitar/bass duo behind , however well before half-distance they are fully warmed-up ( say by Just one of those things ) and thenceforth come into their own with sympathetic accompaniment and youthful aplomb .
10 In anticipation and retrospect , holidays come into their own .
11 This is where dogs come into their own for they are not hampered so much as the rabbits and the odds are shortened in favour of the dog in every chase .
12 The morning is given over to the religious aspect of celebrations , the afternoon belongs to the children , while the brass bands come into their own in the evening .
13 But , of all times , it is in dead , dark winter that the best of the variegated evergreens come into their own .
14 Evergreens are invaluable all year round , but come into their own in winter when branches are bare and the landscape bleak .
15 When they both snuff it — Streep is pushed down the stairs and Hawn shot — the movie 's special effects come into their own as failed plastic surgeon Willis sets to with the spray paint and filler to patch up the damage .
16 Styling products come into their own with a slick of wax adding shape , shine and incredible movement .
17 Fleece garments vary in weight and thickness — the lighter versions are usually better suited to more active roles , while the heavier ones come into their own during very cold conditions , or as evening wear around camp .
18 The reds and browns come from the carotenoid pigments which then come into their own .
19 But it is true that Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis come into their own most forcibly when the ball , one side at least , is slightly worn .
20 In the family women ‘ come into their own ’ ; they are the family .
21 Containers also come into their own for convenience , of for would-be gardeners without a garden , but with an area , balcony or roof-garden .
22 The bands come into their own on the Sunday nearest to the feast of St Jakob ( 25 July ) when the holiday of the alpine herdsmen is celebrated , and again during the Alpstobete , a noisy celebration to close the summer grazing season .
23 However , in the PC world , these need extra processing power that would otherwise be available for the application and only really come into their own with the PC/AT or even the ‘ 386 models .
24 It is in these areas that Marketing departments come into their own .
25 And then of course when the First World , World War came along , th a lot of cars were remade into ambulances and er then of course the lorries began to be , come into their own .
26 Just occasionally , textual fossils come into their own again , as I experienced when writing this book .
27 There is evidence that , in living species too , ‘ fossil genes ’ occasionally come into their own again , and are re-used after lying dormant for a million years or so .
28 And if all these matters can be agreed in outline , the firm 's accountants really come into their own .
29 They provide a simple equivalent of PEEK and POKE , but they come into their own when used to pass data between CHAINed programs , build complicated data structures or for use with machine code programs .
30 DIP systems come into their own when you need rapid access to paperwork or you can not afford long lead times between the documents arriving and being available for reference .
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