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

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1 A fire blazed in a huge hearth beneath an oak lintel which , to judge by its thickness , must have come from a tree already at least a hundred years old when it was felled to help build this ancient building .
2 It began very early in September and has really come to an end today with the last of the leaves falling overnight and the first serious snow on the mountains .
3 Fortunately , the rain seems to have come to an end just in time — and , in any case , Hermann Duckek , recognised as the world expert on producing artificial surfaces , says that a downpour could easily be dealt with .
4 I 've yet to come across a school anywhere in the country that has n't welcomed the opportunity to play host to a pair of teachers .
5 Their decision came during a meeting late on Tuesday when the couple realised the tour had got off to a bad start .
6 The established , and now publicized , fact that women 's sexual capacity increases with age , at least until the late twenties , and stays at this peak for decades , while men 's is already declining , came as a shock both to men , who suddenly discovered they were the unlucky sex , and to women who had not realized what they had been missing .
7 As a journalist who over the years had written-up dozens of Honours ' lists for the papers , I knew how the names came in a day early with an embargo .
8 Then his words came in a mutter so unlike his usual jaunty tones as he announced , ‘ They wo n't have me . ’
9 Verbal abuse in the streets , broken windows and ‘ Russians go home ’ graffiti are common , and things came to a head recently in Perleberg , not far from what used to be the West/East German border .
10 As Ross came to a halt just inside the open french windows , their silk curtains billowing softly in the light breeze , the dark evening sky outside provided a dramatic background to his tall , broad-shouldered figure .
11 The voices came to a halt directly above him .
12 The Jakarta meeting came to an end early on March 1 , after the four Khmer factions had failed to agree on the wording of a final statement .
13 ‘ What I ca n't understand , ’ she said at last , coming to a stop again behind David 's chair , ‘ is why he married me at all and why he … . ’
14 Despite these embassy warnings matters seemed in danger of coming to a head early in 1951 .
15 Einstein 's general theory of relativity , on its own , predicted that space-time began at the big bang singularity and would come to an end either at the big crunch singularity ( if the whole universe recollapsed ) , or at a singularity inside a black hole ( if a local region , such as a star , were to collapse ) .
16 You 're different , you 're dynamic , let it come across a bit more about you and you know , what a good team you are and you 've cracked it .
17 It comes in a roll rather like sticking plaster and is simply wrapped round the threads in a clockwise spiral , following the direction of the thread in several layers .
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