Example sentences of "come [adv] [prep] [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's really just a bunch of guys that I work with on the session scene who all write a bit , and we 've come together in order to find an outlet for our writing . |
| 2 | Five years later , another nuclear supremo , Sir John Hill , chairman of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority ( UKAEA ) , claimed that the nuclear industry had ‘ come just in time to save the world 's industrial society from a devastating energy shortage ’ . |
| 3 | The election has come just in time to boost the Easter start of the housing market 's buying season . |
| 4 | A one million pound restoration of an ancient abbey has come just in time to prevent part of the building collapsing . |
| 5 | He even offered to come over in person to explain them . |
| 6 | It had n't taken her long to clear out her room at the nurses ' home this morning , and her father had come over at lunch to take several boxes of things back to his suburban home for storage . |
| 7 | They had seen that the volcano was in eruption even before dropping anchor ; many of them had come up on deck to see the spectacle . |
| 8 | Richard H. Truly , 50 , was appointed on April 12 , 1989 , as acting administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) ; James C. Fletcher , a previous administrator who had come out of retirement to guide NASA after the 1986 Challenger disaster [ see pp. 34266-68 ] , had left the post on April 8 . |
| 9 | Private steel companies sought injunctions against the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation who were calling on workers in the private sector of the steel industry to come out on strike to support workers in the public sector who were striking over pay . |
| 10 | SEBASTIAN COE is to come out of retirement to run the London Marathon on Sunday 18 April . |
| 11 | If money disappeared from this world entirely , then I would not have to come here in order to get the sort of education I want . |
| 12 | It was next morning that Hazlitt came down to breakfast to find Coleridge with a letter he had just received from the Wedgwoods . |
| 13 | Once upon a time , an angel came down to earth to test the charity of man . |
| 14 | She thought she could in the end be legitimized , be more than just the girl who had married the first man who came along in order to get away from home : daughter of a mother who 'd shacked up with her own mother 's boyfriend at that own mother 's unconscious behest — and had thereby had her life negated forever . |
| 15 | to name but a few , it would be sensible if those of us responsible for production , came together on occasion to swap information , provide each other with examples of material produced , discuss difficulties experienced with regard to reaching specific target audiences , use of alternative formats ( ethnic minority languages etc. ) — generally a forum which would provide an opportunity to share methods and experiences . |
| 16 | Around my eighth birthday , I came home from school to find two women waiting for me . |
| 17 | The Monday after the men were laid off I came home from school to find crowds of people gathered outside Miss Louise 's door chattering excitedly . |
| 18 | That evening , knowing that David was dining out , Anthony came home in time to have dinner with Comfort and looked in to talk to Julia before changing out of his hospital clothes . |
| 19 | As a matter of fact , I came up on deck to get my first glimpse of the island . |
| 20 | They came up in time to see the penultimate line-up . |
| 21 | Came back to bed to find Lucy dressed in bed . |
| 22 | It paid dividends and , as the scheme grew , many of the beneficiaries came back in order to help others . |
| 23 | Before the American tour , John had already prepared his next new production , and he came back in time to supervise the final rehearsals before its premiere at Sadler 's Wells on 20 December . |
| 24 | Dog of the Month was Mally Woods ' High Noon Away , which came back after injury to win four and finish second in its five outings . |
| 25 | Dave , an electrical technician at Dimlington , was Commonwealth champion at Edinburgh in 1986 , and came out of semi-retirement to capture a bronze medal at the recent AAA 's championships . |
| 26 | Those who had perhaps drawn back after much involvement came out of retirement to lead the church more effectively than ever before . |
| 27 | Indeed , the situation was so bleak in 1980 that Sir John came out of retirement to replace his second son Peter , who had taken control of the family firm three years before . |
| 28 | Danny Webster came out of retirement to join the Farnborough locals in the first comp there . |
| 29 | In the late 1960s he came out of retirement to skipper Warwickshire 2nd XI . |
| 30 | After the death of her father in 1891 she withdrew entirely into private life , devoting herself almost obsessively to the care of her mother , even though the latter soon came out of retirement to become a royal lady-in-waiting . |