Example sentences of "[subord] a [noun sg] come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fifth avenue is that of serendipity , where a doctor comes across homoeopathy purely by chance . |
| 2 | Nothing puts me off more than an artist coming to me and telling me that their work sells well . |
| 3 | Mr Arlidge asked : ‘ Supposing a man came to the bakery and said , ‘ Mr Kuc please sell me your kidney ’ . ’ |
| 4 | Mr Arlidge asked : ‘ Supposing a man came to the bakery and said , ‘ Mr Kuc please sell me your kidney ’ . ’ |
| 5 | The baby , who was born in Russia , was destined to spend her life abandoned in an institution — until a nurse came to her rescue . |
| 6 | There was no response and the meeting continued on another tack until a man came from the back of the room with a story about how he had , in the pitch black night , walked straight into a lamp post on his way home the night before : hence the severe head pains . |
| 7 | I waited until a break came in the pain , and then pinned a healthy smile on my face and told her I felt perfectly well . |
| 8 | That is to say , if a person came to blows with another , the shaikhs negotiated peace to contain and settle the dispute , to protect the interests of members of their lineage who were not fighting . |
| 9 | For example , if a person came to me suffering from rounded shoulders I might give him or her an instruction to ‘ think of your shoulders going away from each other ’ . |
| 10 | well Jess , Jess will sort of , if a cat came into our garden , she 'd see it off |
| 11 | And in the orchestra , if a solo comes in slower or faster , I sense it right away ; it makes me feel uneasy . |
| 12 | If a crash comes in Germany we shall have a financial situation something like that at the outbreak of war , and there will be a demand for a moratorium all round . |
| 13 | For instance , if a man came into the station and said , ‘ The man next door has stolen a bottle of milk from my doorstep , ’ in the Met. , they would say : ‘ This man has made an accusation . |
| 14 | Right , the , I was , about to er come to that , erm the erm , there is no reason why a group should not have more than one prisoner erm , the practical situation is that , that groups are queuing up to , to get a prisoner at the moment in fact , erm , not always the situation but at presently there is a waiting list for who have groups to have a prisoner allocated to them , erm , if we so wish er , ah , if , if a group comes onto the list who has er , ah , and their prisoner is released and , and we , we er in that situation we , and any group without a prisoner at all goes to the head of the list and be allocated straight away , but we could request a second prisoner and that case would be put to the bottom of the list , so when the other groups who , who 've got no prison will take priority now , but we , we could request a second prisoner if we so wanted so you are talking about a motion at the A G M , but it 's not really necessary |
| 15 | ‘ If a fellow comes at you and is pushing cameras in your face , what can you do ? ’ |
| 16 | And if a band coming from Thick Paddy Land — and that is not true — comes along and tells these people what 's up they might not be awfully pleased . ’ |
| 17 | But if a matter came to a head that withdrawing my labour was the only way to resolve it , that I thought was the only way to resolve it , I 'd go out and do it again . |
| 18 | She walked feverishly up and down the room , until an idea came to her . |
| 19 | All his life Eddie would stop if an idea came to him , even in the middle of the road ; in the First World War shortsighted Dilly tried to become a night-time despatch rider , claiming that in the dark there was no difference between good sight and bad . |
| 20 | Alright , if an innovation comes onto the market that enables a farmer to increase his output , alright , if that er , innovations that lies , lies outside of erm , sort of orthodox or traditional methods there may be a psychological resistance to actually adopting it simply because we 're a newfangled thing ooh , I , I do n't know how it 's going to , how it 's going to work . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't want to sell them , but if an offer came in that was right for the club and right for the player , then we would consider it , just as any club would in the lower divisions in the same position . |
| 22 | Even there it would seem that he was known because a woman came to him and asked him to drive out an unclean spirit from her daughter . |
| 23 | Whether a visitor came for a particular story or whether the old woman had one in mind she wanted to relate , the preliminaries were the same : she entered into a state approaching that of a trance . |
| 24 | Come on , let's get the others moving before a man comes with a hrududu or they 'll scatter all over the place . " |
| 25 | Miss Jeanette told Teesside Crown Court : ‘ As a policeman came across Darren said ‘ If he asks where I was say I was with you . ’ ’ |
| 26 | For a whole week now I had dreamed of a small child every night , and perhaps Bessie was right , as a message came from Gateshead . |
| 27 | ‘ They 're looking at us ! ’ screamed Emily , promptly disappearing from view underwater ; Alice waved to Alfred and promptly followed her example , as a scream came from behind . |
| 28 | As a congregation comes before God and gives time to him in praise , they are declaring their understanding that this is their highest purpose and pleasure in life : to know God . |
| 29 | The meaning of ‘ volley ’ here is : when a ball comes to the player and he hits it first time at the goal before it touches the ground . |
| 30 | When a child came in this morning , the one I , that we accused of taking that out , he said he did n't take it , I went on and on and on , he said he did n't take it , I said I want a letter from your father to say that you bought it then , that does n't mean anything , the father could lie . |