Example sentences of "[noun] come [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a mother cat wants her kittens to come near to her or to follow her , she gives a soft little CHIRRUPING noise . |
| 2 | She wondered , as she washed the dishes and Memet lay on the sofa with his feet on the cushions , whether some ancient warlock had ever discovered a truth drug while digging around among his herbs in the dark of the moon or even whether there was not some artificial chemical compound which would produce the same result and cause her lover to come clean about his dealings with women . |
| 3 | His wife , inviting his ex-wife to come live with them ! |
| 4 | Cadfael came close on the other side . |
| 5 | The buying came prior to the group announcing a £347 million rights issue and took Asda ahead of BT which was last month 's favourite . |
| 6 | The lights of a car came probing around the comer of the building , cutting a wide swathe through the Hackness and disappearing like a will-o'-the-wisp through the trees . |
| 7 | A car came sweeping into the yard before he had time to say more and they both turned to look , Alain with impatience written across his face and Jenna shaken and miserable . |
| 8 | Bearing in mind the Opposition 's unalloyed joy at the thought of an increase in national insurance contributions for people who earn more than that , is it time that the Opposition came clean on their plans for the self-employed , who are the engine of the power house for this country ? |
| 9 | He could hear Carolyn reading a story to Annie , the words coming clear at certain points then fading back to a murmur . |
| 10 | U2 COME alive on a carpeted , brightly lit stage four minutes late at 11.04 . |
| 11 | Why those same characteristics come unstuck in Deng Xiaoping 's China is a mystery to Mr Winchester , as to many others . |
| 12 | Poisoning comes high on the list of accident cases , especially to children , and all toxic substances should be kept labelled and carefully stored in a safe place , preferably a specific cupboard in the kitchen , bathroom , garage or garden shed . |
| 13 | The Steamatic comes complete with a range of accessories , each carefully designed to deal with specific household tasks . |
| 14 | Angle the shot so the light comes cross-wise at the subject . |
| 15 | This bass preamp comes loaded with goodies , such as 4-band EQ with a variable crossover to enable bi-amping . |
| 16 | Rich people : According to Fortune magazine 's list of the world 's wealthiest people , the Sultan of Brunei comes top with £24bn and the Queen ranks ninth ( £5.13bn ) . |
| 17 | Still , the struggle within Parliament for the reform of Parliament came near to being a revolution on whose comprehensive and rolling tumbril Owenites and Owenism could have expected to secure , as a preliminary to the reconstitution of the country as an industrial democracy , a terminal passage for the old corrupt order . |
| 18 | At Jennetts in Bideford , north Devon , on 15 May 2,300 litres of aluminium sulphate spilled when a hose came loose from a tank . |
| 19 | In this neighbourhood , every building came complete with an alligator pit . |
| 20 | The four-bedroom Crest home which Melinda bought for £146,000 came complete with a full-size study . |
| 21 | Her hair came loose at the back where she rolled her head against the cushions and the locks slipped down against her neck and got cried on to as well . |
| 22 | Ben came prepunctual to the light of day : |
| 23 | Investigations came hot on the heels of the new sound and realistic films and by the time of The Public Enemy and Scarface things were building to a crescendo . |
| 24 | SENIOR consultants have challenged management to come clean over changes to health care in the NorthEast . |
| 25 | A dream come true for Katharine Mahoney recently when she won a lesson with Britain 's most successful dressage rider , Jennie Loriston-Clarke , in a Today 's Horse competition . |
| 26 | With his receding , crinkly black hair , beaky nose , toothbrush moustache and protruding teeth , Fender came gift-wrapped for cartoonists . |
| 27 | It has n't been easy , but at Walton Heath his dream came true at last . |
| 28 | That dream came true for Adam and David , the sons of a squadron leader based at RAF Benson in Oxfordshire . |
| 29 | Sadler came unstuck in trying to produce this light displacement flyer alongside their range of production boats . |
| 30 | The Christchurch Test came alive in a remarkable final session which saw Phil Tufnell bowl England to their first victory in New Zealand since 1977–78 . |