Example sentences of "come [adv] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is more like a slow process of sifting , in which , by a long series of stages , and with many pauses , grains of one kind tend to come together in a heap ’ . |
| 2 | Soon after , all the rabbits had come together in a kind of hollow . |
| 3 | Word has it that an unlikely combination of forces have come together in a bid to establish a new standard for installing Unix software from graphical user interfaces and will be showing their stuff next month 's Uniforum show in San Francisco . |
| 4 | Ask him if he will wants to come down in a minute . |
| 5 | do n't go in Charlotte 's bedroom , alright , alright , they might have to come down in a minute if you want to go up , ah ? |
| 6 | We 've still got the Children Act coming through , I know that may appear a bit odd , but that Act was in fact in nineteen eighty nine , but it 's come through in a sense on an incremental basis , and it 's accepted by the Department of Health and er , the S S I , that indeed , and the Audit Commission , that there are elements in the present settlement for the Children Act . |
| 7 | Jenny 's come back in a couple of minutes . |
| 8 | Tell them you 've come out in a rash , or something . |
| 9 | The words had come out in a babble and by the time he had gathered his wits and been able to respond she had put the phone down . |
| 10 | The third point which has come out in a number erm of comments , certainly from the C P R E is the issue of overshoots in the approved structure plan in respect to Greater York , and as we made clear in paragraph eight of our er erm position statement , we accept that there has been in numeric terms in the period eighty one to ninety two something like fifteen percent overshoot in terms of completions er in that period . |
| 11 | Recession , in making people unemployed , weakens worker organisations and limits the utility of the strike weapon ( the only real weapon of labour ) because labour is reluctant to come out in a situation in which the hold on a job is precarious . |
| 12 | Came down in a tree and broke both his legs . |
| 13 | The four-seater Cessna came down in a wood near Hambledon in Buckinghamshire spreading wreckage over a wide area . |
| 14 | The four-seater Cessna came down in a wood near Hambledon in Buckinghamshire spreading wreckage over a wide area . |
| 15 | Then she told her sister , who came down in a taxi and I was talking to a woman who would not get off the phone . |
| 16 | Only two suffered injuries as the craft came down in a field at Pirbright , Surrey . |
| 17 | Fortunately it did n't go off , but it made a hell of a mess , and I came down in a shell-hole just outside our wire . ’ |
| 18 | The legates were first received by Archbishop Jaenberht at Canterbury , from whence they journeyed to the court of Offa , who received them most favourably , and Offa , together with Cynewulf , king of the West Saxons , came together in a council where papal letters directing attention to the need for reform in the Anglo-Saxon Church were consulted and promises of reform made . |
| 19 | Her teeth came together in a snap . |
| 20 | When he came back he was carrying the calf , his arms encompassing all four legs , so the hooves came together in a bunch , with the rump and tail protruding over one forearm and the shoulders and chest over the other . |
| 21 | Bearing this in mind , the results are perhaps surprising because they showed that when the target came early in a word , reaction times were long ; but when the target came late in a word , reaction times were short . |
| 22 | another driver says he came off in a field saw stars for a few seconds but he 's alright … |
| 23 | During our game with Sporting Hydra Chemicals in which we trounced them before going down 1–0 , Duncan Pugh 's false beard came off in a goal-mouth fracas and he was questioned , at length , by referee Bobby Maxwell . |
| 24 | After my 20 minutes , I came off in a muck sweat . |
| 25 | Haverford came home in a state of nervous excitement . |
| 26 | Ryle wishes not to dissipate the contrast between mind and matter by absorbing one by the other but by showing that the contrasting of the two is as illegitimate as contrasting ‘ She came home in a flood of tears ’ and ‘ She came home in a sedan-chair ’ . |
| 27 | Ryle wishes not to dissipate the contrast between mind and matter by absorbing one by the other but by showing that the contrasting of the two is as illegitimate as contrasting ‘ She came home in a flood of tears ’ and ‘ She came home in a sedan-chair ’ . |
| 28 | He came home in a regulation 36 to show that his relative lack of length need not be a handicap on this king-size seaside course . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , just as we finished the boss came past in a hell of a state . |
| 30 | ‘ One of mine came past in a hurry . |