Example sentences of "come [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter 's got one of the best short games around and that 's come through hours of practice . |
| 2 | ‘ Getting babies hooked on soft drinks even before their first teeth have come through verges on the criminal , ’ said children 's health writer Dr Tim Lobstein . |
| 3 | Perhaps , the greatest shift in offering support to families has come through awareness of the need to work in partnership with parents and for specialist and intervention services to work more within community and across agency settings . |
| 4 | Adrian says they 've spent a lot of time in the water … tweaking this and tweaking that and making sure that it has come through production with flying colours … |
| 5 | And Dons boss Joe Kinnear reckons the time has come for Fashanu to be reconsidered by England in time for next month 's World Cup qualifier against Norway at Wembley . |
| 6 | True , it may well be that much good has come for women from Christian history and from Christ 's moral teaching . |
| 7 | On an upright chair sat a young man — shaven-headed and bovver- booted — who had come for treatment for ‘ a most embarrassing men 's illness ’ ( he would not elaborate ) which had not improved with orthodox therapy . |
| 8 | All take marketing seriously and the time has come for education to be added to the list . |
| 9 | Now he 's come for advice to his local stockbrokers . |
| 10 | They had come for Russell for his attack on the man in the car . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've come for flowers for my mother . ’ |
| 12 | If you have purchased the colour changer for your machine , an additional yarn mast and double tension assembly come as part of this . |
| 13 | There is less scorn in the novel than there had been in the article , and a pity that must have come as surprise to readers of his work . |
| 14 | ‘ We left Reyjavik on Good Friday and on the Sunday morning I was turned in , having come off watch at 0400 hours . |
| 15 | Some staple foods had come off ration with the promise of more to follow , all adding up to a gradual end to austerity . |
| 16 | It has come after years of various cobbled-together options , with one of the louder voices being that of a City lobbying group , the City Group for Smaller Companies ( CISCO ) which argued that the proposed closure of the USM before a proper alternative was thought out showed a lack of concern , particularly for the problems faced by companies coming to the market for the first time . |
| 17 | The closures at Barts have come amid signs of a growing cash crisis this winter in several London health districts . |
| 18 | The Festival 's come of age of late and I am more than happy that my sax playing has been the soundtrack for the Festival 's cinema trailer in recent years . |
| 19 | ONE OF the first railway privatisations of the century has finally come of age with the clearance of a unique hire purchase agreement with British Rail . |
| 20 | This was Henry Stafford , duke of Buckingham , who had come of age in 1473 but had been refused any political role by Edward IV . |
| 21 | This was Henry Stafford , duke of Buckingham , who had come of age in 1473 but had been refused any political role by Edward IV . |
| 22 | His Test debut had come against India in 1978–9 aged only twenty , but , with so many other top bowlers in competition , it was a few years before his place was secure . |
| 23 | A group of thirty horsemen had come against Forteviot from the east an hour before , and had tried to set fire to it with burning arrows , and strike down the defenders with slingshot and spears . |
| 24 | The ministry said yesterday that it was first warned by the Dutch on November 1 that 550 tonnes of Indian rice bran contaminated with lead sulphate had come via Rotterdam to Teignmouth in Devon . |
| 25 | A couple of years earlier Wayne had come into conflict with director John Huston when they made The Barbarian and the Geisha in 1957 . |
| 26 | Despite 19 years of close co-operation with Kohl , Teltschik was known to have come into conflict with Genscher at the Foreign Ministry . |
| 27 | Here , delusions of persecution become actualized if , as not unusually happens , the interests of the citizen come into conflict with those of a state which has monopolized all the means of coercive power . |
| 28 | It 's the second time in a quarter of a century that the locals have come into conflict with planning officials . |
| 29 | I had already come into conflict over race and patriotism . |
| 30 | The ‘ new classicals ’ macro theory is historically fairly recent , having come into vogue in the late 1970s and 1980s . |