Example sentences of "come [prep] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently Hank 's divorce had come through sooner than expected , the deed was done one Saturday afternoon in the local Registrar 's Office , and she came back to Bourn wearing a wedding ring like a brass curtain ring ( Mary 's words ) , to await her discharge from the Waaf . |
| 2 | I mean I 've just come through there and I had a car today and a girl was telling me her father erm opened his door last week er cataract and the , the wife , the granny blind too and there , the man from the water board was just going to switch off your water , just okay if I check your taps , three hundred pounds out the house |
| 3 | Its size and its stability have come about largely because , unlike the other oceans , the Pacific is made essentially of one tectonic plate — one of the eight plates that cover the surface of the earth . |
| 4 | This has come about partly because of low rates of building in the past ( owing to a relatively small effective demand ) and partly because of stringent planning controls , which have restricted the rate of growth of new housing particularly in national parks and other scenically attractive areas ( see chapter 7 ) . |
| 5 | This has come about partly because our main brand , Guinness stout , is able to complement the lager type beers of our brewers partners . |
| 6 | Cynics believe that the forums have come about merely because royal patronage has made them a fashionable activity for business leaders seeking a knighthood . |
| 7 | Often the most exciting work has come about precisely because those assumptions have been rejected . |
| 8 | ‘ There 's only a few minutes left , they 'll never … wait wait , Steven has it , he 's come from nowhere and yes , he 's going for a shot ! … ’ |
| 9 | There was , for example , the theory that A'Tuin had come from nowhere and would continue at a uniform crawl , or steady gait , into nowhere , for all time . |
| 10 | He says : ‘ I am absolutely delighted by the honour — but more because of the people it has come from rather than the award itself . |
| 11 | Well there was no one , no table or nowhere to put your notes , nowhere , one to sort of say well this is Mrs she 's come from so and so . |
| 12 | The move towards these has come from more than one direction . |
| 13 | Well it 'll be one-to-one , but I would have looked at that as many-to- one , because , one child has come from more than one parent . |
| 14 | Of a sample of immigrants in Stratford on Avon in 1765 examined by Dr Martin , a third had come only 4 miles or less from neighbouring villages , while only a fifth had come from more than 20 miles . |
| 15 | How can Wensleydale Cheese come from anywhere but Wensleydale ? |
| 16 | And so it was as the " candidate " that he spoke to them , his accent so neutral by now that he could have come from anywhere and everywhere , his green broadcloth jacket still shabby but worn as jauntily as if it had been lined with ermine , his lean , dark face handsome enough to please the women and hard enough to reassure the men . |
| 17 | All those people who criticise these young girls and say they wo n't be able to cope and wo n't make good mothers ought to come in here and look at them now because they were absolutely fantastic with those children . |
| 18 | and he used to come in here and , and if it , if Y T or , or jobs you know whatever it was going to be , they , they all come in and they knew who Steve is |
| 19 | I need somebody to come in here and explain this . |
| 20 | They had n't come in yet so I started getting some food ready and tried to make up my mind what to tell Rick . |
| 21 | and er , well what they were saying on bus cos he had a sleep just in front of us last night , somebody said we 're Park Row and they said oh he 's asleep in front there , well that was him you see , so I reckon he comes from there , see I mean , the rest must have just come in here or King 's Lynn , well if they fell out |
| 22 | ‘ The motivation has to come from within and he also needs to take the right approach when he 's away from Anfield , ’ he added . |
| 23 | I think what we 've all to pay for this erm that we will perhaps it will have to come from somewhere and again of the Council Planning Department as we we do erm continue . |
| 24 | Such is the confusion of street fighting that bullets can appear to come from anywhere and everywhere . |
| 25 | Nonetheless , his main rivals all appear more likely again to come from overseas than they do from America . |
| 26 | Yet his main rivals all appear more likely , again , to come from overseas than America . |
| 27 | Goals by Mick Harford and Julian James enabled Luton to come from behind and claim a win that leaves them only three points behind Coventry , the club fourth from bottom , with four games each to play . |
| 28 | Leeds , Liverpool and Sheffield Wednesday failed to come from behind and overturn first-leg deficits . |
| 29 | ‘ Nobody has come over here and tried to win a series . |
| 30 | you know , I would have come over here and come and play at giving you a beating or something like that . |