Example sentences of "come [adv] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | ‘ As well as children are when their mother fails to come home from a party because she 's shacked up with some gorilla in a cheap hotel . |
| 4 | ‘ And I suppose you 've come home for a day or two 's holiday ? |
| 5 | Stealing had come more as a necessity than anything else . |
| 6 | There was nothing revealing about Culley 's pause — the surprise was genuine , as if Sanchez had come straight to a point that Culley had intended to arrive at slowly . |
| 7 | Daniel Galvin in London has come up with a treatment that takes only thirty minutes and rather than causing a dramatic change , it softly camouflages grey hair with a subtle , natural-looking colour . |
| 8 | No hi-fi speaker maker has ever come up with a woofer that low and resonant . |
| 9 | The atmosphere moves from hard bop to cajun crunch and , for once , Billy boy has come up with a record that justifies all the praise that has been heaped on his shoulders . |
| 10 | A RESEARCHER with IBM has come up with a device that might possibly replace the transistor in integrated circuit devices . |
| 11 | Now the Scottish Prison Service and the Scottish Council for Single Homeless have come up with a package that attempts to address the problem . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | For political reasons as much as for economic ones , the government needs to come up with a scheme that is simple ( so that its essence can be explained in one sentence ) and seen to be fair ( the duke pays more than the dustman ) . |
| 14 | It will be up to the SMMB to come up with a scheme that is acceptable to them . ’ |
| 15 | How long does it usually take you to come up with a solo that meets the demanding criteria you 've just described ? |
| 16 | Go to a hairdresser , ask him or her to come up with a style that suits you , your hair , your lifestyle , and emerge looking and feeling great . |
| 17 | I 'll try to come up with a part that suits the imagery of the song , and then the tuning seems to suggest itself |
| 18 | We got a call from them recently and , apparently they 've managed to come up with a program that WILL allow for a hundred Lemmings on-screen at once — although they would not be animated to any degree whatsoever . |
| 19 | Basically , the problem is this : due to the sprite limitations of the C64 nobody — as yet — has managed to come up with a routine that would allow more than ten Lemmings on-screen simultaneously . |
| 20 | Even in the ‘ settled ’ areas , where the US and the United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control ( UNFDAC ) have been active , efforts to eradicate opium by crop substitution have run into trouble for one simple reason : in 30 years , no one has been able to come up with a product as lucrative and easy to market as opium . |
| 21 | We 've put those together , we 've looked at the staff that we need to administer that particular level of activity , and we 've come out with a figure that we think is a reasonable estimate , in fact I would go so far as saying , we think this is the lowest estimate that we can safely put forward , as to our needs for the coming year . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I promise to come out for a drink or dinner , even a game of tennis with you . ’ ’ |
| 24 | The Samaritans have threatened to call in the police if I do not stop pestering them with phone calls , and Alcoholics Anonymous refuse to come out for a drink and discuss my problem . |
| 25 | You may think it is a rum thing that a chap like Tim should pay an arm and a leg to come here for a year and then teach us a thing or two but then I am perfectly happy to admit that we do n't know everything . |
| 26 | Business had come almost to a standstill and the newspaper was adversely affected to an increasing degree . |
| 27 | You have to be both token woman and superwoman to come anywhere near a shortlist that disenfranchises most of the male population . |
| 28 | Barnes , playing his first game since rupturing his Achilles tendon in the summer , came on as a substitute and set-up the 87th-minute winner for Ronnie Rosenthal in their 1–0 victory over QPR . |
| 29 | Laura came down with a handkerchief and wiped her son 's nose . |
| 30 | The bag came down with a thud and spilt its contents over the bare oak planks . |