Example sentences of "come [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Peter 's got one of the best short games around and that 's come through hours of practice .
2 ‘ Getting babies hooked on soft drinks even before their first teeth have come through verges on the criminal , ’ said children 's health writer Dr Tim Lobstein .
3 I do encourage people to come for cups of coffee or bites to eat .
4 ‘ You wo n't get the AA to come for hours on a day like this . ’
5 He used to come for holidays as a wee boy .
6 True , it may well be that much good has come for women from Christian history and from Christ 's moral teaching .
7 ‘ I 've come for flowers for my mother . ’
8 In 1372 stipendiaries , and rectors and vicars with benefices worth 10 marks ( or £3 13/ 4d ) , were to come as archers with bows and arrows ; those with livings worth more than £10 had to attend ‘ well armed ’ ; if their living was valued at £20 they had to be accompanied by two archers , if £40 by two armed men and two archers , if £100 by five armed men and six archers .
9 It has come after years of various cobbled-together options , with one of the louder voices being that of a City lobbying group , the City Group for Smaller Companies ( CISCO ) which argued that the proposed closure of the USM before a proper alternative was thought out showed a lack of concern , particularly for the problems faced by companies coming to the market for the first time .
10 The closures at Barts have come amid signs of a growing cash crisis this winter in several London health districts .
11 Oh they used to come with boxes of jewellery and stuff and thing .
12 Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ?
13 Well it 's not as if you 've like come into loads of money when you suddenly turn sixteen is it ?
14 Other teams in the 1993 contest had come from breweries including Whitbread , Fuller 's , Young 's and Courage and the event was held at Park Royal .
15 DOZENS of new leads have come from members of the public after a reconstruction of the last moments of stabbed businesswoman Jean Bradley , police said yesterday .
16 Evidence supporting the theory has come from experiments on the interaction of sleep loss with other manipulations known to increase arousal level , such as incentives and noise .
17 Support for the so-called ‘ electroweak theory that links two forces , the electromagnetic force and the weak nuclear force , has recently come from experiments at CERN , the European centre for particle physics .
18 It has come from experiments with high-energy muon neutrino beams at particle accelerators , and from lower-energy neutrinos at two nuclear reactors .
19 By far the most satisfactory demonstrations of changes in the discriminability of cues with training come from experiments in which the comparison is made between acquired distinctiveness and acquired equivalence conditions ; a difference between these conditions could , of course , be entirely the consequence of an acquired distinctiveness effect .
20 Arguments against a role for a G protein-linked mechanism for generating InsP 3 have come from experiments in which phorbol esters failed to block fertilization but could inhibit the events activated by injecting GTP- γ S into hamster eggs .
21 A request for a diary had come from friends of the broker whose daughter was due home from Arra in Zaire because of political troubles .
22 The money for the building which is based on a Kgotla , a meeting place in an African village has come from donations from across the world .
23 As well as being taught the basic techniques of childcare , some girls may also need to learn how to give and take love , if they have come from environments in which they experienced very little love and affection .
24 God the Creator , the God who had come alongside men in Jesus , now made himself available to come within their very personalities .
25 It was like one of the sentences that used to come in letters from home : ‘ Do let me know if there 's anything I can do . ’
26 The adoption of regular reviews for residents , requiring the continuing involvement of a social worker is gradually being implemented , but is slow to come in Homes for elderly people .
27 Erm , the second point really was that erm as far as Highways is concerned and I mean we , as you 've explained earlier on , as Councillor explained , it 's gon na be very very tight I think , erm in years to come in terms of major highways and starts of major highways .
28 The Group , which intends to operate nationally , does not set an upper limit on the size of customer , but expects 80 per cent of its work to come from companies with a turnover of between £0.5M to £5M .
29 Many of the gradual developments are likely to come from groups in the Oxford environment .
30 Firstly , their income is less likely than the rest of the population to come from earnings from employment ; and more likely to be derived from pensions from the state or from past employers or from savings .
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