Example sentences of "that [noun] come [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in the decline of the movement that Healy came into his own . |
| 2 | The back of a head pushed one of them aside and pressed so close into her face that hair came into her mouth , she could smell the less than clean hair and see the beads of dandruff . |
| 3 | Anne 's mother told her that she had suggested that Molly came to them while Margaret was busy with nursing , but she and Margaret had decided that the company of the little girl did the old ladies more good than doctor 's medicine . |
| 4 | Their strength has been that recruits came to them already vetted and character-tested through membership of a church or Orange lodge . |
| 5 | Well I I thought , that functions came into it , I must say . |
| 6 | If we assumed that Wetherby came across him unexpectedly on the premises , and turned away to give the alarm , how does that fit with the cheese and the bloodstains ? |
| 7 | Many potential employers complain that applicants come to them with a poor knowledge of what the job involves and no particular interest in the company . |
| 8 | Now that water comes through it starts er er from er on two machines . |
| 9 | He walked beside them on the pavement , three abreast , so that pedestrians coming towards them had to step out into the street . |
| 10 | But it was on the greens that Willie came into his own . |
| 11 | These libraries , large and small , are organised on the assumption that people come to them as a knowledge materials distribution centre , knowing what they want . |
| 12 | I was so offended by her behaviour towards me that tears came to my eyes . |
| 13 | I was so hurt by her amazement that tears came to my eyes . |
| 14 | So it is in deserts ( and on islands ) that reptiles come into their own . |
| 15 | In his 1981 book Life Itself Crick suggests that life came to our world because a billennia-old extraterrestrial civilization deliberately sent out vast numbers of spacecraft packed with living spores , hoping thereby to ‘ seed ’ countless potentially life-supporting planets in the Galaxy . |
| 16 | Always ask him to have a go first , so that children come to you with a word already written . |
| 17 | D' you know that guy comes into my office about twice a day and perches on my desk like a bird of ill omen all ready to commiserate with me about my wretched lot ? |