Example sentences of "have [adv] come [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A film editor friend has just come back from a couple of weeks of yoga , a music producer I know goes to St James , Piccadilly , where they have spiritual talks on a Monday evening , while a designer friend does Chi-Kung , a Chinese movement like Tai-Chi , where you have to ‘ stand like a tree ’ . |
| 2 | The Venice Soprintendenza certainly does not intend to miss out on such an opportunity and has already come up with a proposal , ‘ Dal Museo alla città ’ ( From Museum to City ) , which it estimates would cost L3.8 billion ( £1.76 million ; $3 million ) . |
| 3 | No hi-fi speaker maker has ever come up with a woofer that low and resonant . |
| 4 | In the month and a half it 's been delivering its high-end SparcCenter 2000s Sun has shipped 130 systems to paying customers : the firm has reportedly come up with a new 50MHz MPU module for its high-end SparcCenter 2000 that adds 2Mb external caches and improves database throughput from 20% to 40% . |
| 5 | R. W. Blake in the Zoology Department of the University of British Columbia , who made the discovery , has even come up with a name for the strategy . |
| 6 | As well as the scent of ‘ mother 's scalp ’ — the first reassuring odour a new-born baby smells — there is a natural sea scent to overwhelm the chlorine in swimming pools , and even cow-pat perfume for which no one has yet come up with a use . |
| 7 | Investors , some of whom might have earlier come out with a fortune were suddenly losing . |
| 8 | He was pleased to see how well they had all mixed , even though they had admittedly come together with a common purpose . |
| 9 | ‘ Dear Loretta , ’ she read , ‘ I 've just come back from an official trip to Italy , and I squeezed in a visit to a peace camp while I was there . |
| 10 | A Dessie Edgar corner was neatly side-footed home in 79 minutes by Victor Welch who had just come on as a sub . |
| 11 | ONLY a dealer who had just come back from a weekend in the Kalahari desert would have been surprised to hear of yesterday 's agreed £337.6m bid by MB Group for Caradon , the Twyfords and Everest building products group , so comprehensive has been the pre-match publicity . |
| 12 | Don Mini turned to one of the robins which had just come back from a practice flight with a child Minpin on its back . |
| 13 | By the time he had taken her back to the theatre she felt totally removed from the morning , quite calm , controlled , almost as though she was nothing to do with the Hochhauser Season but had just come back from a week in Vienna staying at a luxury hotel . |
| 14 | We turned our ponies and galloped back to the Legation , where we learnt that news had just come in of a great victory for the Shoan army . |
| 15 | She opened the door before Massingham had time to ring , her handsome shield-shaped face composed under the light brown fringe , and looking in her shirt , slacks and leather jerkin as elegantly informal as if she had just come in from a country walk . |
| 16 | ‘ They had not been there very long and had just come out of a restaurant , ’ said Mr Robinson . |
| 17 | Then the minister deigned to appear and defended himself by saying he had once come out to a stranger who called , but the man proved to be ‘ a little worth person ’ . |
| 18 | They 've also come up with an amendment to the English battle hymn of recent years : ‘ Swing low , sweet chariot , coming for to carry me home — wards to think again . ’ |
| 19 | I 've often come home from a job , or visiting so-called happily married friends , and thanked heaven fasting for my lot . |
| 20 | Perhaps , thought Robert , he had simply been playing for time and had now come up with a credible answer . |
| 21 | Not that Loretta had yet come up with an excuse to contact Mrs Grant , even if she acquired a proper address , but that problem could wait until after she spoke to Bridget . |
| 22 | Mrs McTavish used to wonder why she had produced two children who ran to such opposite extremes , but had never come up with an answer . |
| 23 | It 's great fun , very enjoyable , but for a young women who 's perhaps come up from a convent or an all girls ' school and who feels very uncomfortable with this person because he 's thirty years older and has power over here , it 's not perceived in the same way . |
| 24 | The successful receptionist models could be used to devise special training to enable CAB receptionists to ascertain the depth of a problem ; they could serve the dual function of assessing which clients have just come in for a form or a local address and they could make appointments for others in person or by telephone and smooth the queue . |
| 25 | Dates have just come in for a series of Ovation guitar clinics , with Ian Aitken : Wed Oct 14th , Picton Music , Swansea ; Thu 15th , Cranes Music , Cardiff ; Mon 26th , Oasis Music , Ringwood , Hants ; Tues 27th , Soundpad , Barnstaple ; Thu 29th , Avalon Music , Sevenoaks ; Wed 11th Nov , Music Inn , Nottingham ; Thu 12th , Musical Exchange , Birmingham ; Fri 13th , Foulds of Derby ; Wed 18th , Rose Morris Music Store , London . |
| 26 | We like your cleverness Has he given it more thought , he 's just come up with a really clever idea I think there |
| 27 | ‘ Operators have been in discussion with the Health and Safety Executive for some time , and we have now come up with a code of practice accepted by the HSE and drawn up by BERSA ( British Elastic Ropes Sports Association ) . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ No hitches so far , and he 's even come up with a little bonus on the side . |
| 29 | On the other hand , commentators on English have recently come up with a startling reversal : they have begun to argue that natural gender , traditionally defined as a classification based on sex reference , is really a grammatical phenomenon . |